November 16, 2011
Genetically-modified (GM) maize on trial cultivation at a farm in Vietnam. More and more experts are concerned about the harmful consequences of GM crops and Vietnam’s plans to cultivate them on a wide scale. Vietnamese experts are increasingly concerned about genetically-modified (GM) plants that have undergone trials and are about to be cultivated widely. [...]
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August 23, 2011
Investing in GMOs is the worst decision Vietnam could make at this time, putting its food sovereignty at risk, independent scientists say A Thai organic farmer pretends to be dead after eating GM corn during a protest against the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to Thailand outside the Government House in Bangkok in [...]
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August 14, 2011
Activists worry multinational corporations that produced Agent Orange could perpetrate another ecological disaster through genetically modified organisms Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc (C), 27 years old, and his father Chu Quang Chien (R) who served in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam – Da Nang area from 1971-1975 during the Vietnam War, attend a computer [...]
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