Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Changing weather patterns and rising seas are already affecting many people in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong Basin and climate change threatens the livelihoods of millions more, a report released on Monday shows. Intense floods and droughts, coastal erosion, higher seas and heat waves in coming decades threaten rice, fruit and coffee crops and fisheries on which many of the basin's 65 million people depend, says the report by global conservation group WWF. "Across the region, temperatures are rising and have risen by 0.5 to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the past 50 years," says the report issued on the sidelines of U.N. ... Read Full Story

A Vietnamese court sentenced two officials to up to three years in prison Friday for collecting $80,000 in rent from Japanese consultants but dividing it among colleagues instead of putting it in state coffers, a court official said. The embezzled rent was part of a bigger scandal over a Japan-funded road construction project that prompted Tokyo — Vietnam's biggest donor — to temporarily suspend millions of dollars in development loans in December and demand that Hanoi make more vigorous efforts to combat corruption. Four Japanese executives at Pacific Consultants International, a company hired as a consultant on the road project, pleaded guilty in a ... Read Full Story

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HANOI (Reuters) - More than a third of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, where nearly half of the country's rice is grown, will be submerged if sea levels rise by 1 meter (39 inches), an environment ministry scenario predicted. A sea level increase of that magnitude would also inundate a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's biggest city and home to more than 6 million people, according to the extreme scenario, outlined in the newspaper Tuoi Tre on Thursday. Environmental scientists have long listed Vietnam, with its lengthy coastline and vast swathes of low-lying ground, as one of the most vulnerable countries on ... Read Full Story

A Vietnamese newspaper that helped expose a major corruption scandal announced on Saturday it was shutting down its daily English-language print edition, citing difficulties caused by the global economic crisis. In a front-page note to readers, Thanh Nien Daily said it was being transformed into a weekly paper to be launched on Friday, September 4. Thanh Nien is a popular Vietnamese-language daily, the publication of which will continue despite the closure of the English edition, which has been produced for almost two years. Its demise leaves the state Vietnam News, published by the official Vietnam News Agency, as the country's only English-language paper to ... Read Full Story