September 20, 2011
Land-locked neighbor reveals plans to start construction of controversial dam months before regional meeting decides on the issue A handout photo released by the US-based environmental group International Rivers shows construction on the Xayaburi dam’s access road and work-camps has gone ahead despite commitments by the government of Laos in April to temporarily suspend [...]
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July 23, 2011
As China and ASEAN inch closer to a goodwill declaration on the East Sea, experts doubt that it will ease tensions Vietnamese fishermen in the East Sea. Experts have called a recent agreement to implement a regional declaration of goodwill a step toward resolving growing tensions in the East Sea. Experts have called a [...]
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February 20, 2011
Experts still divided on ways to treat turtle too old and special for conservation efforts The badly injured giant soft-shell turtle living in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake, pictured here on February 8, is said to be one of four remaining Rafetus swinhoei specimens in the world. The photograph has initiated a new round of [...]
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June 10, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Ho Tat Thang, vice chairman of the Viet Nam Standards and Consumer Association (VINASTAS), speaks with Viet Nam News about the draft Law on Consumer Protection. According to a recent survey, 59 per cent of consumers are unaware of their rights.Vietnamese society and the country’s economy have been changing, especially since we opened [...]
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June 4, 2009
A visitor to the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City looks at pictures revealing the devastating effects Agent Orange As Vietnamese Agent Orange activists take their struggle for justice to the floor of the United States congress, a British advocate campaigning on their behalf canât be the USâs intentions. The hearings on Thursday [...]
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April 13, 2009
Dr. Nguyen Nha at the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Bookshelf, a library he set up in HCMCâs Phu Nhuan District to give Vietnamese youth easier access to books on the issue There is one man whose name invariably crops up in any discussion about the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes â“ Nguyen Nha. [...]
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March 24, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A group of young people in HCM City are hoping that on Saturday night, March 28 at 8:30pm, the city will be plunged into darkness. Pupils in action: Students of the Hoang Hoa Tham High School in Binh Thanh District in HCM City join the Earth Hour campaign.It’s not a terrorist or heist [...]
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March 24, 2009
Two Naval cadets at the Truong Sa archipelago keep themselves informed of mainland issues. Vietnam needs to raise awareness of the need to protect her territorial waters in every individual and should mobilize all resources to achieve this, says renowned historian Duong Trung Quoc. Quoc, also a National Assembly deputy, told Tuoi Tre newspaper that [...]
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