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Thousands of families in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta are facing shortages of fresh water due to the rising levels of salt water, which began in early February 2010. Salt water also threatens hundreds of hectares of crops. In Hau Giang province, salt water has inundated seven communes, with salty concentrations of 2.6-7%. …
Her neighbors said she has to save money to pay debts so for the last five years, she hasn’t celebrated Tet. For Dang Thi Hua, the best she can hope for at Tet is not to be hungry. $400 and five years without Tet holiday At the age of six, the eyes of Dang Thi [...]
After favorably taking into account Le Cong Dinh’s sincere declaration and repentance, plus his good record, the judgment council sentenced the former lawyer to five years’ imprisonment – much lower than the penalty framework. Le Cong Dinh and Le Thang Long at the court. Meanwhile, the court sentenced Tran Huynh Duy Thuc to 16 years, [...]
Vietnam doesn’t just import cars from the US and beef from Argentina. Now it also imports apples and pears from South Korea and vegetables from Italy. That’s a part of the explanation why the trade deficit has grown sharply in the last months of the year. Our appetite for imports has become our headache. Experts [...]
Sapa has entered the autumn with yellow-ripened rice in terraced fields at the foot of magnificent Fansipan Mountain. The fall is the most beautiful season in the mountainous, tourist haven of Sapa in Lao Cai province. Terraced fields, which are referred to as natural staircases to heaven, are favourite destinations of tourists. Terraced fields …
Only 30 percent of factories in the Mekong Delta have wastewater treatment systems. If Vietnam’s rich Mekong Delta area builds dikes to hold back the sea, wastewater could pose an even bigger threat to its prosperity. Professor Dao Cong Tien, former head of the HCM City Economics University, says that if the sea level rises [...]
The Mekong Delta’s Kien Luong limestone system in Kien Giang province has, says WWF, the greatest biodiversity in the world. Since 1997, Vietnamese and foreign scientists have discovered an astonishing 1068 new species of creatures in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, reports the HCM City Tropical Biology Institute. Of this number, there are 519 plants, 279 fish [...]
A BBC report warns international travellers to watch out for the ‘zig-zag scam’ when they use Bangkok’s new international airport. As regular readers know, at VietNamNet Bridge we focus on events in Vietnam. This story is an exception. VNNB reader Selim Hassan wrote us from Bangkok to applaud a recent VNNB article on a proposal to promote [...]
Vietnamese people are possessed of an inherent fondness for learning. They are also known as people of great compassion. Therefore, it is not a surprising at all to hear stories about a girl willing to starve so she could take the university entrance exam and about a village that came together to assist poor students. [...]
More efforts to reduce the huge volume of dust around construction sites are being made by authorities in the capital, who are also working to reduce exhaust pollution. Streetsweepers operate in Ha Noi’s Cau Giay street, under a campaign initiated by the city People’s Committee. The increased effort, part of a campaign initiated by the [...]