Environment

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has received 700,000 votes for Ha Long Bay as one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

New Zealand declared its worst maritime pollution disaster, as oil gushed into a pristine bay from a stranded container ship pounded in heavy seas.

Travel firms in the Mekong province of An Giang are offering tours for visitors to experience the flood season between late July and mid-October.

Authorities in Dak Lak Province have decided to prosecute a former forest management official at the Yok Don National Park for illegal logging of timber.

Climate negotiators said they made progress on laying out ways to help poor countries but deep differences remained on core issues ahead of talks in Durban, South Africa.

An endangered Philippine eagle, one of only a few hundred left in the world, has been shot dead, a conservation group said.

By October 6, 18 people were reported dead because of flooding in the Mekong Delta, including 16 children from 1 to 14 years old.

HCM City has launched different programmes to develop its tourism sector, including “river tourism”, “HCM City- 100 interesting things”.

Over a half of the medical waste incinerators in Vietnam have been left unused, because their owners do not have money to pay for fuel.

Nearly 30,000 households from the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have been evacuated to flood-proof residential clusters.

Everybody works to earn a living then when they reach a certain age they retire, but several elderly people in Hanoi still have to work despite their old age.

Seafood processing companies are creating serious water pollution problems in Kien Giang Province.

With the death of a large number of tame elephants recently concerns have risen regarding the threat of extinction of the animals.

A second South Pacific community has declared a state of emergency in a drought crisis that has seen water rationing imposed in parts of the region.

An ozone hole five times the size of California opened over the Arctic this spring, scientists said.

Nearly 10 schools in Tra Vinh Province have built a small-scale waste burning system on campus to replace the previous dumping system.

Typhoon Nalgae was poised to hit the Philippines on Saturday, threatening more than a million people living in areas still flooded from a previous storm, officials said.

Actress Ly Nha Ky has been nominated as the first ever ambassador for Vietnam Tourism.

The alarm bell over the pollution of craft villages in Hanoi has been rung over the last many years, but, no proper solutions have been found.