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When it comes to small-scale fisheries, there is no one route to sustainability. Finding success stories can help map those paths.
Laden with 629 people, the Aquarius is heading for Spain after docking was refused in Italy and Malta. Here are four other infamous refugee boats from the 20th century.
While many of its Asian neighbours are striving to get smoking under control, Indonesia is the stubborn exception.
This speed read explores why it’s hard to stop manufacturers in specific countries from dodging trade barriers by pretending that their goods come from somewhere else.
Unstable relations between China and Vietnam are affecting the lives of Hmong highlanders in surprising ways.
No country manages to balance sustainability with meeting basic human needs – but Vietnam comes closest.
It looks as if climate change is forcing 24,000 people to leave the Mekong Delta every year.
Across Canada and around the world, thousands of students are paying cash for good grades - in tests, essays and even PhD theses. On Oct. 18, 2017, universities globally are fighting back.
By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no longer be arable. Climate change is changing the game to such an extent that Canada could one day become a coffee producer.
Almost hidden in the orderly rows of men’s names on the Vietnam War Memorial are those of eight female nurses who died in the conflict.
Walt Rostow argued communism was incompatible with economic development and was influential in persuading Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to get more involved in Vietnam.
Not all who fled Vietnam at the end of the war wanted to be resettled in the US. But those who returned faced an unwelcoming government.
Indonesia announces it has outnumbered Thailand in terms of academic publication number. It’s good news but Indonesia needs to make the studies more relevant to get more citations.
Was Vietnam ‘a quagmire’ or a ‘stalemate machine’? Understanding this 50-year-old debate can shed light on why the US is currently locked into a ‘forever war.’
Lucrative cannabis plantations have been a magnet for illegal migrants.
What do intercontinental missiles and Apple’s app store have in common? Alvin M Weinberg.
Disasters may have ‘natural’ triggers but why are ethic minorities forced to live under harsh conditions that make them particularly vulnerable to catastrophes?
By speaking their truths in societies that would rather not know, queer painters, female rappers and other outsider artists are pushing the bounds of gender and sexuality in the developing world.
One of the many roles of Vietnam’s fascinating “cult of heroes” is to ensure government control over religious feeling, channeling it into nationalism.
LGBT rights are a work in progress in Vietnam. But artists are in the vanguard of the movement, pushing for public acceptance.

















