Typhoon Ketsana most powerful in last four decades

Typhoon Ketsana has been named as Vietnam’s strongest storm in the last four decade by Vietnamese authorities. The Central Standing Committee for Flood and Storm Control on October 6 held a press conference...

WWF calls for support to protect rare wild cattle from extinction

The World Wildlife Fund for Nature Viet Nam, in co-operation with central provinces, recently launched a project to protect saola and other endemic hoofed mammals in the Truong Son Range.Saola, along with two...

Global aid urged for Ketsana storm victims

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has offered assistance to typhoon victims in Viet Nam.The typhoon, which struck central Viet Nam last Tuesday, caused 159 people dead, 15 others missing and a...

Vietnam must focus on protecting its 50 wild tigers

Tigers are disappearing from their natural habitats in Vietnam and authorities need to protect them better, experts told a Friday conference in Hanoi. Pham Mau Giao, a professor who has roamed forests nationwide for 45 years studying Vietnam’s Indochinese Tiger (Panthera...

Viet Nam’s children voice approval

A seminar on literature and art for children opens today, October 2, in Hanoi reviewing the results of the Children's Voice project in Viet Nam.The three-year project has been jointly implemented by the Youth Theatre and the Swedish International Theatre Institute (ITI) since...

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