Environment

The toll from ever-more intense floods, drought, and heatwaves will crescendo this century unless humanity anticipates the onslaught, according to a UN report.

A climate innovation centre will be set up in Vietnam to promote climate technology by offering venture finance and other support for small and medium enterprises.

The Mekong Delta Business Forum was launched to engage the business sector in initiatives to respond to climate

The conservation of Dong Ho Lake is one of several important objectives that Kien Giang Province will implement in the following years.

Mekong Delta provinces were urged to speed up construction of housing foundations, dykes and infrastructure for flood-proof residential clusters.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism together with 30 local firms attended the World Travel Market Exhibition in London.

Poaching and illegal trade in sturgeon caviar persist in Romania and Bulgaria, environmental group WWF warned.

Offshore sand exploitation by foreign ships off Phu Quoc Island has affected the marine environment in the region, local authorities said.

Government's policies for environmental protection do not work well due to problems in management and financial resources allocation mechanism.

Nineteen of the most vulnerable countries to climate change have today agreed to present a unified front filling the

Local scientists and experts have said that a few rhinos may be still living in the Cat Tien

Rampant and illegal forest exploitation has been identified as one cause deforestation, according to the Vietnam Administration of Forestry.

The World Bank’s Special Envoy on climate change Andrew Steer is on a visit to Vietnam to assess impacts of climate change on the Southeast Asian country.

Along Vietnam's central coastline, besides luxury tourist resorts, another world lives in small narrow houses, exposed to dangers of storms.

Saigontourist has launched over 300 inbound and outbound tours to welcome the upcoming Christmas festival and Tet holiday since early November.

Four polluting factories in HCM City were forced to suspend operations by having their power supply cut and their machinery sealed, an agency said.

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake killed at least three people in eastern Turkey, less than three weeks after a quake killed more than 600 in the same area, TRT television reported.

Vietnam's Xoan singing will be one of the 23 heritages to be put for recognition as a world intangible cultural heritage at a UNESCO meeting.

Environmental mismanagement and serious pollution at craft villages were discussed by the National Assembly in Hanoi on November 8.