A ceremony to mark the end of the two-year serial radio project ‘Desire for life’ was held at Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) headquarters on August 16. The ceremony was co-organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Danish Government (DANIDA) and VOV.

VOV Deputy General Director Hoang Minh Nguyet, director of the project, said Desire for life aimed to change listeners’ behaviour towards people living with HIV and focused on some major themes, including HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, gender equality and domestic violence.

As reported by AFP on 13 July, 2010.

QUE DIEN, Vietnam — The rivers that should nourish his thirsty rice paddies are too salty, and the rains are late this year. Dang Roi does not know if he will be able to salvage anything from this spring's crop.

Vietnam is the world's second-biggest rice exporter and the Mekong Delta, where Roi farms, accounts for more than half of its production.

But Roi's paddy fields in Ben Tre province are burning up during a drought which meteorologists say is the worst in decades.