Nguyen Viet Hung, an ambassador of the ocean
Nguyen Viet Hung or Lekima Hung has travelled 7,000km of coastline in 28 provinces across Vietnam to capture ocean plastic waste. His 3,000 photos convey a single message of saving the sea from plastic litter, which is now the world’s second biggest environmental challenge after climate change.
Vietnam actively controls plastic waste
NDO – A ceremony was held in Hanoi on June 9 to launch a national campaign on plastic waste prevention in response to the UN’s call for preventing the threat of plastic waste pollution to the ecological environment and people’s health.
Ethnic groups in northwest region begin transplanting rice seedlings
NDO – In May and June, when terraced fields in the northwest region enter pouring-water season, ethnic groups begin transplanting rice seedlings, the most important time period for the crop.
Garlic season in Ly Son
NDO – Arriving in Ly Son Island, Quang Ngai province in the last days of March, visitors can feel the lively atmosphere of the "kingdom" of garlic during the only harvest season of the year.
Exhibition spotlights Japanese installation art
Japanese installation art on Vietnamese silk is being introduced at an exhibition that opened in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue on January 17.
