Environment

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.

Serious environmental pollution shrank the average lifespan of residents in trade villages and economic zones by 10 years, an agency said.

A ceremony to launch tours of Viet Bac heritage sites was held in Bac Kan Province on November 7 with a special art performances.

Australia's upper house passed a controversial pollution tax Tuesday in what the government called a "history-making vote".

Following the killing of the last rare rhinoceros in Vietnam by poachers, scientists are calling for better management at Cat Tien National Park.

Conservationists warned that moves to restrict tiger tourism in India to protect the endangered big cats would have the opposite effect.

Scientists are concerned about environmental pollution in Nha Trang Bay due to increasing amounts of untreated wastewater.

Harmful carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels made their biggest ever annual jump in 2010, showed the US Department of Energy's world data.

Issues relating to environmental and ecological changes were the subject of the Vietnam Press Cartoon contest, launched nationwide on November 3.

The domestic fisheries sector has set itself the target of reducing gas emissions by 20% over the next 10 years.

Floodwaters are beginning to recede in the upper reaches of Long Xuyen Quadrangular and Dong Thap Muoi in the Mekong Delta..

A press conference on a project to support countries fighting crimes against wild animals, including the tiger was held in Hanoi by Interpol.

Photos and objects on Vietnam and the country’s cuisine are being showcased at the Charleroi Expo 2011 in Charleroi city of Belgium.

A television programme was broadcast live to campaign for votes for Ha Long Bay as one of the new seven wonders of the world.

A total of 4.8 million foreign tourists visited Vietnam during the first ten months of the year, said a Vietnamese tourism agency.