Secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society (BVFS) Len Aldis has passed away at his home at Tomlins Grove Street, London, the United Kingdom. As a peace campaigner known throughout the world, Aldis has been unstinting in his effort to help...
A group of 20 men sneak into an airbase in the southern province of Dong Nai. They climb up a tree, jump over a fence and start to catch fish from the lakes inside Bien Hoa Airbase. After around seven hours, they leave with more than a hundred...
As many as 25 poor patients in the Mekong Delta region living with heart disease will receive free heart surgery under a program funded by the Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients in the south-western region. According to the president of the...
Police have summoned a large number of students from ethnic villages in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak for smoking cannabis, which is banned in Vietnam, and offered to excuse them in this instance so they can continue their studies. They...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a climate change adaptation project costing EUR52.3 million to be funded from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The financial support including EUR1 million worth of non-refundable aid...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an EUR15.6 million law and judicial enforcement scheme that will be carried out in the 2015-2020 period. Of the amount, EUR14 million will come from European official development assistance. The...
Global climate change and the El-Nino phenomenon have raised the risk of epidemic outbreaks if precautious measures are not properly taken, said a health official. Truong Dinh Bac, Deputy Director of the General Department of Preventive Medicine,...
Farms and rice fields in the two vast deltas of Vietnam are forecast to be seriously exhausted in the coming years as an impact of the shortage of water in rivers. It will be further exacerbated by the intrusion of salt water into the Hong River...
Seawater has been progressively encroaching on land in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, causing severe landslides in coastal areas, according to a field survey by a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on...
Vietnam, the Netherlands and the World Bank have issued a joint statement calling for global support to the Southeast Asian nation in coping with climate change in its Mekong Delta, state media reported. The joint statement was made at the end of a...
