(1/21/2010) Yesterday, the tropical depression developed in the sea South of Vietnam on January 19 has crossed the South of Vietnam and has dissolved when reaching Cambodia. It affected the provinces with strong winds and medium to locally heavy rain. It has caused 4 casualties in Binh Thuan and Vung Tau provinces.

(1/21/2010) China built its famous Great Wall to keep out marauders. Now, millennia later, a "Great Green Wall" may rise in Africa to deter another, equally relentless invader: sand.

(1/11/2010) The Government of Germany presented donations worth about 88,000 USD to Vietnamese victims of typhoon Mirinae in a ceremony in Hanoi on January 7.

(1/8/2010) The World Bank (WB) on Jan. 5 launched the Vietnam Innovation Day programme with a mission seeking innovative ideas from local communities to deal with climate change.

(1/8/2010) According to UN figures announced on December 18 2009, in the last 16 years, the UN has sent and coordinated specialist teams to support and overcome more than 1,000 disasters all over the world.