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The local Tân An garment factory has generated many jobs for women in An Hiệp Commune in Bến Tre Province’s Ba Tri District. — VNS Photo Hoàng Nguyên Viet Nam News by Hoàng Nguyên BẾN TRE – Under the hot afternoon sun in a small workshop, Lê Thị Thùy Vân is busy weaving plastic chairs along with six other women. Vân is the owner of the 40 sq-m workshop that was built thanks to co-financing from a fund which is part of the Adaptation in Mekong Delta (AMD) project in the Mekong Delta province in Bến Tre. In 2013, she started the chair-weaving business in Ba Tri District’s An Hiệp Commune after noticing that weavers in other districts were making good money. “In the beginning, there was only a small work station in my house, but now I have the workshop which was built a few months ago,” she said. She received VNĐ75 million (US$3,300) from the AMD project and contributed VNĐ60 million ($2,630) of her own cash and other assets as a counterfund. Thanks to the workshop, … [Read more...] about Rural Bến Tre women work their way out of poverty

Nguyễn Văn Hồng and the unharvested morning glory.—VNA/VNS Photo Thu Vân Viet Nam News The morning glory plants stood unharvested. Considering how popular a green vegetable this is across the length and breadth of Viet Nam, it was strange that farmer Nguyễn Mạnh Hồng could not be bothered to cut and sell them. But Hồng is a disheartened man these days. It has been a year since he started growing clean vegetables in his 2,600 square-metre net house in Ha Noi’s Yên Mỹ Commune, Thanh Trì District. When Hồng decided to invest more than VNĐ3 billion (US$130,000) in the net house along with other equipment, he hoped that the increase in demand for safe, organic products would deliver handsome returns. But he has been brought down to earth by a combination of factors that defy simplistic analysis. While there is demand for organic vegetables from increasingly health conscious customers, as also increasing recognition of the environmental benefits of organic farming, … [Read more...] about Organic farmers unable to make a clean break

Viet Nam News By Paul Kennedy The Red River that dissects Hà Nội takes its name from the colour of the silt that tints the water. But maybe there’s another reason for its moniker as this 1,149 kilometre stretch has been the life blood of Việt Nam for hundreds of years. In the 19 th century it was a lucrative trade route to China and remained the main commercial route between French Indochina and Yunnan Province. Today cargo ships can be seen carrying goods to and from the many ports dotted along its banks. But unbeknown to many living in the capital city, the Red River is a place many people call home. Living in make-shift shelters constructed from just about any items they can scavenge, find or even recover from the river itself, around 25 families live in this floating community. A man walks across a home-made bridge to get to his floating house.— VNS Photo Nguyễn Hiếu Men, women and children crowd into these ‘floating homes’ turning the muddy banks … [Read more...] about The residents of Red River