Molave typhoon has yet to come to Vietnam but the country already suffered, with two fishing boats in Binh Dinh sank and 26 fishermen went missing. On the evening of October 27, Binh Dinh province’s Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention…
There is much analysis that natural disasters in Vietnam in recent years have been increasingly exacerbated by deforestation and hydroelectricity. Is this the main cause? According to Vu Thanh Ca, a lecturer of the Faculty of Environment, Hanoi University of…
The Los Angeles Times on October 22 published an article by two authors David S. Cloud and Shashank Bengali with the title “Facebook routs free speech. But in Vietnam, it is adding censorship.” The article mentions that Facebook and its…
Relief in the Central region has shown signs of corruption from 22 tons of hardtack sent by Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense to the people affected by the flood in the central region. After Senior Lieutenant General Le Van Chiem made…
The Central region is struggling to cope with natural disasters, floods have caused so many suffering and losses to the land between the two ends of the country. However, the fighting and power struggle for the 13th National Congress is…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on October 18 called on Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to “put pressure” on the Vietnamese government during his first visit here for Hanoi to “improve its human rights record.” Prime Minister Suga officially visited Vietnam…
As many as 128 people have died or gone missing, the Central region is receiving a tropical depression that could become a storm, the Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper reported on the evening of October 19. In Quang Binh, the water…
On October 14, the German daily TAZ published an article questioning “The drug smuggling case from Berlin is probably related to To Lam.” The following is the translation: There is evidence that a relative of Vietnam’s ambitious Minister of Public…
National Assembly member Phan Nguyen Nhu Khue, head of Propaganda Department of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee, on October 7, at a meeting to collect opinions of voters in District 2 before the parliament’s 10th session, has promised voters…
13 officers and soldiers out of 21 people in the rescue team of Rao Trang 3 Hydropower Plant (Thua Thien Hue Province) have now lost contact after a landslide at 0 am dawn on October 13, with a forest ranger…
