Quang Tri, Vietnam News

International and domestic delegates gathered on November 19 in central Quang Tri Province to find ways of minimising accidents caused by post-war bombs and landmines and boosting clearance activities in central provinces.

Women's issues should be integrated into national climate change policies as the fairer sex is more vulnerable to the consequences of natural disasters, said experts at the release of a UN report Thursday.

From Quang Tri Combat Base we came down to Phu Bai, me and Tex, with a deuce-and-a-half truck full of shot-up electronics.

Vietnama s Department of Animal Health has launched a US-funded mass media campaign on avian influenza prevention.

Vietnam should scale back its nuclear program, National Assembly representatives argued Friday, cautioning that massive spending on the countrya s first nuclear power project would burden the economy.

" Sand exporters have complained to the Prime Minister after falling foul of new regulation.

Brad Ross was walking point on a patrol in Quang Tri Province in what was then the extreme northern part of South Vietnam, on Feb.

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" Despite protests from environmentalists, the construction of the A Cho hydro-power plant will commence in early 2010 in the Dakrong nature reserve in the central province of Quang Tri.

Excerpted from emails to Thanh Nien Weekly and a prepared statement on Agent Orange given at the International Tribunal of Conscience on Agent Orange this May in Paris By RENA KOPYSTENSKI* My husband, of 40 years, my reason and my partner in the fight for research and compensation, passed away on April 6, 2008 from complications of Agent Orange ...

Farmers in the Central Highlands and south-central region are worried they may not have enough rice seed in time for the upcoming winter-spring crop.

You know how a country views a war by its iconography. Among the visual icons of World War II - the unspotted "good war" - are, says historian Richard Botkin, the scorched Chinese orphan wailing in a Japanese-bombed rail yard; the USS Arizona ablaze at Pearl Harbor, and Joe Rosenthal's Marine/Corpsman flag-raising on Mount Suribachi - images that ...

OTTAWA a ' A man armed with a large kitchen knife who forced his way into the home of a Vietnamese interpreter while hunting for his estranged wife and children was sentenced to 18 months in jail Thursday.

The Governmenta s policy in the last ten years of protecting the domestic auto industry has yielded big profits for the industry but not for consumers.

Sometimes you can do everything right, for all of the right reasons, and things can still go wrong.

VietNamNet Bridge a ' Typhoon Ketsana has been named as Vietnama TMs strongest storm in the last four decade by Vietnamese authorities.

A typhoon that smashed across Vietnam last week may have spared their lives but it destroyed their homes and livelihoods.

" The Mid-Autumn Festival took place on October 3 throughout Vietnam, bringing joy to children in many areas of Vietnam despite the recent storm.

A policy to encourage investment in rural water supply programmes to improve the quality of life in the countryside is in the works.

The Party leader of Quang Ngai Province has recently blamed the provincea s severe damage caused by Typhoon Ketsana on inaccurate forecasts by the National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting, but the center rejected such a claim October 1. The center had forecasted that the stormed would move between West and North West and head to the ...