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Mekong Delta braces for drought, salt intrusion By Hoang Nam   March 14, 2021 | 08:00 am GMT+7 Learning it the hard way from last year's drought and salinity, Mekong Delta farmers have been preparing their crops for the worst. Early March, Huynh Huu Loc, 62, comes to check the water level in canals around his family’s durian farm, which stretches 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) on the islet of Ngu Hiep in the eponymous commune of Cai Lay District, Tien Giang Province. Under the scorching sun of southern Vietnam’s dry season, the canals of two meter wide each are filled with water of on...

Red River's clear colors blamed on dams, pollution By Gia Chinh   February 25, 2021 | 08:09 am GMT+7 With the Red River turning a surprisingly clear blue-green shade in its upstream sections, the absence of its usual muddy, pinkish color is being blamed on dams and polluting factories. The Red River flowing through Lao Cai has been surprisingly clear for about a week, February 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Pham Ngoc Trien. For a week now, the Red River section that flows through Lao Cai Province has become so clear that there are some shallow areas towards the banks where the river bed can b...

Hanoi doubles down on human rights abuses and violations during pandemic The Vietnamese government has stepped up its campaign of arrests and repression of activists, independent journalists, bloggers and citizens. Today there are at least 150 people sentenced for freedom of expression, another 15 in pre-trial detention. Vietnam is one of the four "closed" nations of Asia along with China, Laos and North Korea. Hanoi (AsiaNews / Agencies) – Over the course of the past year, despite the Covid-19 pandemic and the measures taken to contain it, Vietnam has stepped up its campaign of arrests and...