February 04, 2010 Human Rights Watch
	Vietnam: Expanding Campaign to Silence Dissent -- Award-Winning Writers Put on Trial for Seeking Peaceful Reforms
January 21, 2010 IRIN: humanitarian news and analysis
	VIETNAM: Life-threatening landmine scavenging on the increase -- According to a 2009 study by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense’s Technology Center for Bomb and Mine Disposal (BOMICEN) and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, more than 35 percent of the land in six central provinces - including Nghean, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue and Quang Ngai - is contaminated with UXO.
November 07, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
	VIETNAM: Slow recovery from floods -- HANOI, 7 November 2008 (IRIN) - Flood waters have begun to recede but parts of northern Vietnam, including neighbourhoods in Hanoi, remain under water after nearly a week of rains triggered some of the heaviest flooding in a generation.
August 29, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
	VIETNAM: Dramatic rise in child abuse cases -- HANOI, 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - When Tran Van De strikes his grandchildren, he says he does it out of love. "I know it hurts; it hurts me too," says the 68-year old retiree, a grandfather of four. "But it helps them become good citizens. That was the way I was taught when I was a child. It's not abuse. I love my grandchildren. How could I abuse them?"
August 19, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
	VIETNAM: Employing improved technology against typhoons, flooding -- AN GIANG, 19 August 2008 (IRIN) - Vietnam is experiencing more frequent and powerful typhoons and floods, and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report 2007-2008 has said as many as 22 million Vietnamese could be displaced if sea levels rise by one metre.
March 05, 2008 IRIN
	VIETNAM: Loss of livestock hits livelihoods -- HANOI, 5 March 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of families in northern Vietnam have been pushed deeper into poverty after losing cattle in a record-breaking cold spell. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 136,000 cattle died as temperatures fell as low as minus 10 Celsius.
February 12, 2008 UNDP
	Every citizen has a role to play, but reliable data needed in the fight against corruption -- Chasing crooked police officers and pestering high level authorities are not the typical pursuits of a 75-year-old grandmother. But Ms. Le Hien Duc, whose efforts to fight corruption were recognized last week by global corruption watchdog Transparency International, is no ordinary Vietnamese citizen.
February 01, 2008 Agence France Presse
	Agent Orange: Toxic Legacy of Vietnam Still Demands Remediation -- A US-Vietnamese group said Friday 1.2 million dollars had been spent to contain rainwater run-off from a “dioxin hotspot” at a war-time US airbase that was a depot for the toxic defoliant Agent Orange.
January 15, 2008 Viet Nam News
	Increase in child abuse stumps police -- A recent surge in cases of child sexual abuse has left the victims and their families in inconsolable pain and confronted authorities with the big question of how to deal with the issue.