According to the preliminary report of the Central Statistical Office of 1991, the rural areas account for 58 percent of the population while the urban areas account for 42 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese meteorologists have raised concerns about a lack of qualified staff and equipment to effectively forecast increasingly frequent floods and storms.

MADINAH: Lawyers representing 600 Madinah residents who filed a lawsuit against three government departments for failing to stop the dumping of toxic waste in their neighborhood have pledged to appeal a decision by a judge to throw out the case.

George P. Cressman, a former National Weather Service director who took the lead in applying computers to meteorology and helped change weather forecasting from a form of cloud-gazing guesswork to a codified science, has died. He was 88.

Some of you may remember a study conducted by Johns Hopkins University released a year ago labeling roughly 1,700 regular and vocational high schools nationwide as "dropout factories." The schools fitting this description see no more than 60 percent of