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Vietnam: Farmers want to foster coexistence with elephants
30 September 2022 - Solving human-wildlife conflict is a complex issue and a pressing concern for a wide variety of endangered species, none more so than the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). People living around Vietnam's Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve, however, want to foster coexistence with elephants, not conflict. That's according to a new study published in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation that looks to understand community perspectives on how to solve human-elephant conflict. (more)

International Day of Yoga 2022 celebrated in Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Ninh
21 June 2022 - The 8th International Day of Yoga (June 21) was celebrated in Ho Chi Minh City and Quang Ninh province on June 21. The Indian Consulate General in coordination with HCM City's Union of Friendship Organisations held the event on Nguyen Hue pedestrian street in district 1 with the participation of nearly 1,000 people. Madan Mohan Sethi, Consul General of India in HCM City, said the event with the theme 'Yoga for Humanity' aims to promote humanity's community spirit towards a sustainable lifestyle, in harmony with the Earth in the context of resumption of activities in the post-COVID-19 pandemic period. (more)

Former petroleum engineer succeeds with organic farming in central Vietnam
23 November 2021 - A former petroleum engineer left the oil rigs in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, southern Vietnam in 2014 to pursue his farming passion. Now [Nguyen Van Nhan] is throwing himself into the fields in Quang Nam Province, located in the central part of the country. He makes a good living for himself, has a natural setting for his children, and hopes to spread his method to fellow farmers. (more)

Camera trap pics of rare species in Vietnam raise conservation hopes
24 June 2021 - Camera traps placed in a remote nature reserve in central Vietnam recently captured images of rare muntjac deer, in addition to a number of other endangered species, raising hopes for the state of biodiversity there. The sightings took place in Phong Dien Nature Reserve in Thua Thien-Hue province, a rugged part of the Truong Son Mountains (known internationally as the Annamites) near Vietnam's border with Laos. (more)

At Vietnam's southern tip, mangroves defend the land from the encroaching sea
28 April 2021 - Bordered by the sea on two sides and exposed to typhoons and rising sea levels, Vietnam's Ca Mau province is among the most vulnerable regions of a country expected to face some of the worst future impacts from climate change. In response, people there are working to restore and preserve mangroves like almost nowhere else in Vietnam in an attempt to protect the remaining coastal land from encroaching seas. (more)

Demand for organic farm produce on the rise in Viet Nam
28 October 2020 - Demand for organic products has been rising sharply globally including in Vietnam, and this is good news for businesses investing in them, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam said the area under organic crops in the country had increased from 53350ha in 2016 to 237693ha last year and they are grown in 46 out of 63 provinces and cities. They had been exported to 180 countries and territories ... he told a seminar in HCM City on October 26. (more)

Vietnam bans wildlife imports, markets amid new health fears
24 July 2020 - Vietnam announced Friday [24 July] that it was banning wildlife imports and will close wildlife markets in response to renewed concerns about the threat from diseases that can jump from animals to humans, such as the virus that causes COVID-19. The new directive includes recommendations that conservationists have been making for years. (more)

Japanese NGO funds organic agriculture project in Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap
18 June 2020 - Japanese non-governmental organisation (NGO) Seed to Table (STT) has provided an assistance package worth 55,000 USD for the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap [Viet Nam] to develop an organic agriculture project in the 2019-2022 period. Through the project, local farmers will apply organic cultivation techniques in agriculture production, and improve their livelihood by establishing production groups. (more)

Viet Nam: Son La province expands organic farming
17 June 2020 - The northern mountainous province of Son La has emerged as a leading grower of fruit in recent years thanks to its well-chosen policy of moving in the direction of organic farming. ... With more than 20 hectares of land under mango, the cooperative is able to export about 50 tonnes of fruit each year to Australia and China, generating average income of 200 million VND (8,575 USD) a year for each member. (more)

Vietnamese hat seller turns to homemade face shields in virus fight
7 April 2020 - For nearly three decades, Quach My Linh has sold hats at Ba Chieu market in Vietnam's bustling Ho Chi Minh City. But following a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the 42-year-old vendor has turned to making plastic face shields for frontline medical workers instead. ... In just a few days, Linh and her gang of volunteers made almost 1,000 face shields, she said, and distributed them to at least three nearby hospitals. (more)


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''Transcendental Meditation was absolutely transformational'' - Vietnam veteran
13 January 2012 - Vietnam veteran Dan Burks shares a compelling account of fighting in Vietnam and his struggles to reintegrate into civilian life. Mr Burks credits the Transcendental Meditation Programme with his recovery from PTS. (more)

Vietnam: Global Mother Divine Organization promotes expansion of Transcendental Meditation Programme
19 January 2011 - The Global Mother Divine Organization (GMDO) in Vietnam has been very active through the past year in promoting the steady growth of the Transcendental Meditation Programme and Consciousness-Based Education in the country, as well as offering GMDO programmes for women. (more)

Bright future for Consciousness-Based Education in Vietnam: Dr Bevan Morris reports on recent tour
3 April 2010 - Dr Bevan Morris, Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, recently visited Vietnam, where he met with university leaders interested in implementing Consciousness-Based Education, as well as with practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation Programme. (more)

Vietnam: Crowd of 350 attends Transcendental Meditation talk in Ho Chi Minh City
1 January 2010 - Three hundred fifty people recently attended an introductory presentation on Transcendental Meditation at a business leaders association in Ho Chi Minh City. (more)

Vietnam: Growing interest in Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi University of Management faculty presentations
31 December 2009 - A Maharishi Invincibility Centre opened in Vietnam in 2008, when 12 university administrators learned the Transcendental Meditation Programme. Recently, many people have been attending introductory lectures about the technique, inspired by television interviews, newspaper articles, and referrals from friends who are already enjoying its benefits. (more)

Vietnam: New Transcendental Meditation teaching activities stir widespread response
29 November 2009 - A native of Vietnam, who had lived in the United States for many years, returned to his homeland earlier this year after completing training as a Teacher of the Transcendental Meditation Programme. He and several international Transcendental Meditation Teachers toured the country for three weeks, meeting with community leaders; addressing 200 doctors at a hospital; and giving a large public lecture in Ho Chi Minh City, coordinated by the UNESCO organization for cultural exchange, for which 500 people requested seats. (more)

Viet Nam: Tremendous interest in Transcendental Meditation
27 August 2009 - Interest in the Transcendental Meditation Technique in Viet Nam is so great that the biggest challenge is keeping up with the demand. To fulfill this rapidly rising wave of interest, Teachers of Transcendental Meditation from other countries are warmly invited to join the two new Teachers who graduated from the recent Transcendental Meditation Teacher Training Course in Bulgaria, and the rotating team of Teachers from Malaysia. (more)

Philippines schools plan to offer Consciousness-Based Education
26 August 2009 - In the past year, interest in Consciousness-Based Education has been growing in the Philippines, and a new Maharishi Invincibility Centre is making the programmes of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi widely available. (more)

Hundreds eager to learn Transcendental Meditation in Vietnam
27 June 2009 - Presented for the first time in Vietnam, the Transcendental Meditation (TM) Programme is being received with tremendous enthusiasm. A recent public lecture on the technique in Ho Chi Minh City, coordinated by UNESCO, was attended by more than 400 people. (more)

Education leaders in Vietnam express great interest in Consciousness-Based Education
22 September 2008 - Speaking 16 September 2008 on Maharishi Global Family Chat, Raja Bob LoPinto, Raja of Invincible Vietnam for the Global Country of World Peace, reported on the success of a recent visit to his domain by Dr John and Dr Christina Revolinski, Teachers of the Transcendental Meditation Technique and administrators at Maharishi University of Management. The Revolinskis met with several university leaders, who expressed enthusiasm at having Consciousness-Based Education introduced into their schools. (more)


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Vietnam detects a suspected new coronavirus variant that's a hybrid of the UK and India strains
6 June 2021 - Vietnam's health ministry has detected a suspected new coronavirus variant which it said appears to be a hybrid of two highly transmissible strains. 'A new coronavirus variant with characteristics from the existing Indian and UK variants had been detected in Vietnam for the first time,' Vietnam's Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long told a national news conference Saturday. (more)

Vietnam's empty forests
1 April 2019 - A promotional email I received from Cuc Phuong National Park was tantalizing ... But in trying to make arrangements to visit, the travel fixers my wife and I contacted were oddly hesitant about natural areas and wildlife, and they kept nudging us back toward mere scenery, or to cities. And then this email: 'Have you been to Vietnam before, or know of the situation there? It's pretty dire if you are not aware.' (more)

From Tibet to the 'Nine Dragons', Vietnam's Mekong Delta is losing sand
13 January 2019 - In the dead of night, the entire front half of shopkeeper Ta Thi Kim Anh's house collapsed. Perched on the sandy banks of the Mekong River, it took just a few minutes for one half of everything she owned to plunge into its murky depths. ... Upstream damming and extensive mining of the Mekong's riverbed for sand is causing the land between the sprawling network of rivers and channels near the mouth of one of the world's great rivers to sink at a pace of around 2 cm (0.75 inches) a year, experts and officials said. (more)

Drastic plastic: Vietnam beach awash with tide of blue waste
4 June 2018 - There's almost more plastic than sand on this long, tree-lined beach: Plastic helmets, plastic furniture, and the plastic leg of a shop mannequin all jut out of an ocean of blue plastic bags. Just south of the capital Hanoi, the once-peaceful and clean beach of Da Loc in Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province, has been slowly suffocating under the weight of plastic waste for decades. (more)

Typhoon tears across Vietnam
15 September 2017 - A typhoon tore a destructive path across central Vietnam on Friday, flooding hundreds of thousands of homes, whipping off roofs, and knocking out power in the country's most powerful storm in years. ... more than 5,000 houses were submerged, 19 collapsed, and nearly 24,000 houses in Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien-Hue provinces were damaged, the disaster agency said in a report. ... Winds exceeded 130 km (80 miles) per hour and were expected to weaken as the storm heads to Laos. (more)

Vietnam battles dengue outbreaks with 42 percent more cases
18 August 2017 - Vietnam has been battling raging dengue fever outbreaks with more than 10,000 new infections reported over the past week stretching its medical system. The number of admitted patients represents a 42-percent increase over the same period last year . . . The ministry attributed the rise of dengue outbreaks to higher temperature, more rains, and rapid urbanization that promote the breeding of virus-carrying mosquitoes. (more)

China over construction of lighthouses further escalates tensions
14 October 2015 - Vietnam on Wednesday, 14 October slammed China over its construction of two lighthouses in the disputed South China Sea, saying the move violates Vietnam's sovereignty and escalates tensions. China has launched a massive land reclamation project on reefs in the South China Sea over the last 18 months, raising concerns in the region and in the United States. (more)

Over 1,300 workers diagnosed with neurotoxicity in central Viet Nam
17 May 2014 - Some 1,355 footwear workers were hospitalized with symptoms of 'toxicant syndrome' after drinking water at a factory in Thanh Hoa Province on Thursday. Le Huu Uyen, head of Thanh Hoa Department of Health's medical profession division, confirmed the initial diagnosis on the workers at the Taiwanese-owned footwear factory Hong Fu Co, Ltd with VnExpress on Saturday. Uyen's division has yet to identify the precise toxin responsible. According to the International Labour Organization, neurotoxicant syndromes are brought about by substances that can adversely affect nervous tissue, including arsenic, lead, mercury, manganese, tin, and insecticides. (more)

Vietnam mobs set fire to foreign factories in anti-China riots
14 May 2014 - Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country in an angry reaction to Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam, officials said on Wednesday. The brunt of Tuesday's violence, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979, appears to have been borne by Taiwanese firms in the zones in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces that were mistaken for Chinese-owned companies. A police official in Binh Duong province, speaking by telephone, said about 200 people had been arrested. 'We are working on other areas in the province ... We haven't seen any injuries,' the official said. Photographs posted on social media sites and blogs, purportedly of the aftermath of the violence, showed blackened shipping containers, smashed windows, and several burnt out vehicles that had been overturned. (more)

Vietnam, Chinese ships fire water cannons at each other
13 May 2014 - A Vietnamese patrol boat and several Chinese vessels blasted each other with water cannons Monday near an oil rig recently positioned by Beijing in disputed waters, Vietnamese state media reported, in the latest incident in a dangerous standoff between the two nations. The Tuoi Tre newspaper said it was the first time that Vietnamese vessels have responded to aggressive Chinese actions close to the deep sea rig, which was positioned 1 May in an area of the South China Sea claimed by Beijing and Hanoi. Both sides have accused the other of ramming ships. Vietnam has presented a video showing Chinese ships hitting its vessels. Late Sunday, another newspaper quoted the coast guard chief as saying China had widened an exclusion zone around the rig to a radius of 10 miles (16 kilometres) and had deployed fighter jets to fly low over Vietnamese ships. Vietnam has reacted with fury to the Chinese deployment, part of a campaign by Beijing to slowly cement its extensive sovereignty claims in the South China Sea, disregarding the anger of smaller Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam and the Philippines which have rival claims. (more)

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