While cross-border smuggling in the Cuu Long ( Mekong ) Delta's
border areas has decreased somewhat, no headway has been made against
the trafficking of cigarette, local authorities concede.
The first-ever requiem for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/dioxin
will be held in late July, 2011, marking the 50th anniversary of the
catastrophe of AO defoliants sprayed by the US on Vietnam.
The global Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund is again seeking
applications from Cambodia , Laos , Thailand and Vietnam for
funds to conserve the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on August 11
launched a new online portal on timely fire information and monitoring
to help countries control fire effectively and protect property and
natural resources.
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) issued a
statement on April 13 protesting a worldwide event to be held on April
18
sponsored by several US producers of toxic chemicals used in the
American war in
Vietnam.
The illegal extraction of sand that has
taken place since the beginning of March is threatening the Thuy Phu
dyke corridor that runs alongside the Hong (Red) River in Hanoi ’s
Phu Xuyen district and the lives and farmland of hundreds of families.
One of Vietnam’s hotspots of human
trafficking, the northern province of Lao Cai is dealing with a rise in
the trafficking of women and children cross the border shared with China
while trying its best to help trafficked ones reintegrate into the
community.
Forty-four solid waste treatment plants will be built in the country in the
period of 2010 to 2020 to reduce the use of landfills, the Ministry of
Construction has said.
Vietnam will tighten exit and entry of people under suspicion of being
involved in transnational drug-related crime in the wake of a recent
rise in cross-border transportation and trafficking of illegal
narcotics.
President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Associations
(VUFO) Vu Xuan Hong led a delegation to visit the US from August 29 to
September 5 with the aim of making the best use of the people-to-people
diplomacy to promote bilateral Vietnam-US cooperation.
Malaysia was hit by the worst haze it
has experienced since early this year as smoke from forest fires caused
alarming levels of pollution in six areas on August 5.
The President of the Hanoi People’s
Council, Ngo Thi Doan Thanh, said that although most of second half
years targets were lower than the previous ones, they underline the
Capital’s determination to achieve its socio-economic development
goals.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
