The central province of Nghe An’s People’s Committee has for the first time announced a state of emergency across the province due to prolonged severe drought occurring in the locality during the summer-autumn crop 2015. Together with the...
Vietnam is hosting the First Pangolin Range States workshop in the central city of Danang on June 24-26 with the attendance of Secretary General of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and U.S....
At least seven people died, four got injured and four others went missing after tropical storm Kujira swept northern Vietnam on June 23-24, state media reported Thursday. The victims are located in from the northern city of Haiphong, the northern...
The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's biggest farming region, is losing 500 hectares (1,235 acres) of land to erosion every year as land accretion fails to make up for areas being washed away, new evidence suggested. Studies and satellite images have showed...
Lawyer Bertrand Repolt from the Paris-based William “Bourdon & Forestier” law firm which is representing Vietnamese French Tran To Nga in a lawsuit against 26 US chemical companies for producing dioxin-containing Agent Orange sprayed by the US...
The Association of Victims of Agent Orange in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has recently inaugurated a house of steaming and detoxification for Agent Orange victims. The 4-room house, including 1 for medicine and 2 for steaming and...
Two thousand tons of rice were delivered to the residents of central Ninh Thuan Province as part of a Government relief for the province affected by a prolonged drought this year. While Bac Ai District received 411 tons, Thuan Nam got 460 tons, Ninh...
The Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs proposed spending VND39.718 trillion ($1.82 billion) to help ethnic minorities in the period of 2016-2020, the Phap Luat Vietnam newspaper reported on June 16. The supporting policies for ethnic minorities...
A workshop on forging affiliation between the Vietnam Blind Association (VBA) and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was held in Hanoi on June 16. According to the People's Aid Coordinating Committee (PACCOM), 213 international...
Vietnam discovered 5,500 more people living with HIV in the first six months of this year, according to an official of the Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control. This was revealed by director of the health ministry's Department of HIV/AIDS...
