December 23, 2011
Earthquake damage to Christchurch Cathedral in the New Zealand South Island city is seen in September 2011. New Zealand’s Christchurch was rocked by a fresh series of powerful earthquakes on Friday, sending terrified people fleeing into the streets 10 months after a devastating quake claimed 181 lives. Two shallow quakes of magnitude 5.8 and [...]
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December 9, 2011
Soldiers study a 2,000lb bomb dropped by the US Airforce during the Vietnam War in A Luoi, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. Vietnam is seeking US$500 million in assistance from domestic and international sources to help clear war-era bombs and mines and reduce the difficulties for its people and land contaminated by unexploded ordnance, [...]
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December 5, 2011
 Mai Phung Luu, a fisherman in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai who said he has been to every nook and cranny of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago, asserts that he will continue heading to the Hoang Sa seas without fearing anything. International experts have encouraged Vietnam to take further actions to reaffirm [...]
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October 31, 2011
If the current state of zero accountability for wildlife protection continues, other species will follow the rhino to extinction Participants watch projected images including of smuggled rhino horns (R) seized during a press conference on the launch of a rhino population survey report in Vietnam in Hanoi on October 25. A critically endangered species [...]
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October 28, 2011
Saif Al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himself up and warning him Friday he risks a mid-air interception if he tries to flee by plane to an African [...]
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October 26, 2011
 A Javan Rhino in Vietnam International conservation organization the WWF has confirmed that the Javan rhino is now extinct in Vietnam; the organization has released an online film explaining the animal’s road to extinction. Javan rhinos were thought to be extinct in mainland Asia until 1988, when a small population was discovered in the [...]
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October 15, 2011
VAPA golden medal winning photo Ba chi em H’mong (three H’mong sisters) by Vietnamese photographer Tran Thiet Dung. Local photographers won about half the prizes on offer at the 6th International Artistic Photo Contest held in Vietnam, the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA) said on Oct 5. The contest, sponsored by the International Federation [...]
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August 27, 2011
Two douc langurs among three repopulated to a nature reserve in Ninh Binh Province. Forest management officials from the northern province of Ninh Binh and German zoologists in Vietnam have repopulated three douc langurs born by rescued langurs to a local nature reserve.  The officials planned to return ten of the Delacour’s langurs by the [...]
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August 20, 2011
Vietnam is a big name in the rubber industry. It is the world’s fourth largest exporter despite being a late entrant into the international market. But Vietnamese firms producing tires and needing latex for other production purposes are facing a shortage of the material and having to import it at higher prices. The increased [...]
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August 13, 2011
By Danielle Nierenberg and Philip Newell* Whether fishing on the coast or farming in the fields, the people of Vietnam depend on an abundant supply of water. But as water becomes increasingly scarce, sustainable agriculture will be a key way to improve yields over the long term. In order to avoid massive water shortages, [...]
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