A large meeting was held at the Hanoi Opera House on August 10 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the day when Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin was first sprayed by US troops in Vietnam (August 10, 1961).

Eighty percent of young Vietnamese people spoke out against corruption via a recent survey conducted by Transparency International and Towards Transparency.

Vietnam’s efforts to reduce gender violence and build policy frameworks for the field were praised at a seminar held in Hanoi on August 9.

Mining is tending to exacerbate poverty rather than alleviate it, according to the results of an 18-month study on the impacts of mining in the provinces of Hoa Binh, Phu Tho, Lao Cai, Lam Dong and Dak Lak Province conducted by the Centre for People and Nature Reconciliation in July 2009.