MUSIC & PERFORMANCES Hanoi-A Sonata Evening with Composer Nguyen Van Quy 5:45 – 8pm on October 30, UNIS Hanoi, Centre for the Arts,G9, Ciputra, Tay Ho District, A concert aims to honour the life and work of an amazing Vietnamese composer who is nicknamed the Beethoven of Vietnam. Ticket: VND200,000 (adults) – VND100,000 (children) HCMC-A O Show by Lune Production ______________________________________________________________________ EXHIBITION Hanoi- Exhibition “Light – Dark” by Barbara Klemm Goethe Institut 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi The exhibition “Hell-Dunkel” (light – dark) is a reference to Barbara Klemm’s work in the former FRG and GDR. She photographed in both western and eastern Germany, thus documenting the path to the reunification of Germany. Free entrance Hanoi-Exhibition: “The Big Book Larousse of Space” L’Espace’s Mezzanine, 24 Trang … [Read more...] about What’s on October 29-November 4 (Daily updated)
Agent orange living in darkness
In Vietnam, Monsanto is guilty until proven innocent
Monsanto’s controversial present is very much tethered to its dark past. And nowhere is this manifest more than in Vietnam, a country that has borne the brunt of the toxic defoliant it produced and is now facing the growing threat of its infamous weedkillers. Vietnam has embraced a very perplexing relationship with Monsanto, crystalized in the unfortunate irony of allowing the former Agent Orange maker and current producer of the controversial genetically modified organisms (GMOs) back into the country, for all practical purposes, with a clean chit. While Monsanto has repeatedly and consistently denied responsibility for the deaths and other forms of suffering, lasting generations, that have been caused by Agent Orange, there is evidence that the company knew that dioxin, a key ingredient, was toxic. Now, with glyphostate, the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup that the biotech giant plugs for use along with its GMO seeds, fears about causing cancer in humans have risen … [Read more...] about In Vietnam, Monsanto is guilty until proven innocent