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1.7 million people have migrated out of Vietnam’s agriculturally productive Mekong Delta over the last 10 years. Crop yields have fallen in the region, and rising levels of salt water and freshwater droughts are to blame. Sea level rise and other climate-related factors have contributed to the Mekong Delta’s decline. The Vietnamese Mekong Delta is […]
EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS Wonders Of Halong Bay includes an overnight stay in the stunning new Wonder of the World Shadow floods our small rowboat as the entrance to the cave closes in. The excited babble of tourists desperate to get a glimpse of the stunning scenery beyond the cave bounces off the rocky walls of the […]
Enlarge / An adult Clonorchis sinensis. (credit: PLoS Medicine) A small pilot study hints that a startling number of Vietnam veterans may be infected with a liver parasite that can induce a rare type of cancer, the Associated Press reports. The study, conducted by the Northport VA Medical Center in New York, involved blood samples […]
Thomson Reuters DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will not have a separate meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vietnam due to scheduling conflicts, the White House said on Friday. Trump and Putin will both attend the APEC summit in the Vietnamese city of Danang. “Regarding a Putin meeting, […]
Published time: 8 Nov, 2017 05:47 Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to hold a meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Danang, Vietnam on November 10-11, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed on Wednesday. “We are hearing Trump’s statements that he is planning to hold a meeting […]
Published time: 5 Nov, 2017 09:02 Edited time: 5 Nov, 2017 09:04 At least 27 people have been killed and tens of thousands evacuated after Typhoon Damrey struck Vietnam, officials say. The storm hit the country just days before world leaders are scheduled to meet for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The typhoon made […]
Yet while numbers overall are on the rise—and adventure operators and infrastructure continue to emerge—the adventure scene is just starting to feel the flow. As Vietnam’s online English-language newspaper VietNamNet Bridge points out, the sector still only accounts for around 10 per cent of the greater pie, with the potential for a far more diverse […]
Arizona Senator John McCain appears to have taken a swipe at President Donald Trump for avoiding the army draft during the Vietnam War. In an interview aired on C-Span on Sunday, McCain criticized those who were able to avoid serving in the military by citing medical conditions in comments about draft deferment. “One aspect of […]
Twitter/CSPAN3 Sen. John McCain seemed to call out Trump for his medical deferment from the Vietnam War. The senator criticized wealthy Americans who “found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur” — the exact diagnosis Trump received in 1968. Trump famously dismissed McCain’s military service in 2015, saying “I like people who weren’t […]
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