Climate change has caused an increase in the number and intensity of natural disasters in Vietnam, the deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dao Xuan Hoc, said August 26.

A study on the effects of climate change has come back with some shocking results which could have serious consequences for Vietnam across the board.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has completed a set of scenarios for climate change in Vietnam which is expected to provide an initial basis for ministries and localities to work out plans to cope with climate change.

A quiet consultation between the US and the four Mekong River ‘downstream countries’(Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) last month has attracted considerable attention. Here Doanh Nhan Saigon Cuoi Tuan (Saigon Businessmen’s Weekend) analyzes the unusual event.