April 9, 2011
A protracted drought has aggravated seasonal brackish water intrusion in the Mekong Delta, significantly damaging the region’s rice crop A farmer from Soc Trang Province’s My Xuyen District watering his watermelon field on March 13. The Mekong Delta is suffering from harsh drought and saline water intrusion caused by climate change and upstream hydropower [...]
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November 24, 2009
As Hanoi is expanded, spare a thought for the surrounding villages where lives are being irreversibly changed. The new road in Dong Xuan commune. One year ago, the road to Dong Xuan was a pathway crossing a hill with buffalo footprints – now it is a 4m-wide concrete road. The commune’s chairman Nguyen Van Ha said: [...]
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August 20, 2009
A vendor pushes a cart with Democratic Peopleâs Republic of Korea (DPRK) souvenirs in Dandong, China, on August 13 North Korean trade with China has slumped since recent sanctions took hold, merchants said in the Chinese border town of Dandong, where 40 percent of all commerce between the two countries takes place. Tesco Plc, the [...]
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June 13, 2009
Hoang Duan (R) entertains patients at the Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion They are the entertainers, the performers, the actors who make the children laugh, but almost every time, their audience reduces them to tears. This is the experience of a drama troupe in Ho Chi Minh City that entertains [...]
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April 16, 2009
Teacher Nguyen Thi Thu Huong of Sao Mai Kindergarten in Moc Chau District, Son La Province shows two toy pigs made from yogurt containers. Kindergarten teachers in a poor upland district have come up with a simple way to keep the little ones supplied with toys. The kindergarten classrooms in Moc Chau District in the [...]
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March 25, 2009
Singapore Airlines Ltd. employees speak with a customer at Changi airport in Singapore, in November 2008. Singapore Air is currently in talks with labor unions on early retirement, voluntary leave without pay and shorter work months. Biggest drop in passengers in more than five years costs carrier ranking as worldâs most valuable airline amid a [...]
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February 4, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of heaped up empty containers have appeared in HCM City recently as export business has been going very slowly. The container ground in district 9, HCM CityVisitors to the city’s cemetery might have been very surprised when they passed a big container ground in the precinct of a garment company [...]
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