Environment

Vietnam welcomed around 2.96 million international tourists in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 18.1 percent, the General Statistics Office reported.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s biggest city, looks ugly because of disorder advertising boards.

The California Academy of Sciences said it discovered more than 300 previously unknown animals and plants in the Philippines.

Vietnam has pioneered the development of the Payment for Forest Environment Services programme to protect and preserve natural heritage.

American artist Daniel Rueffert came to Vietnam to learn about the art of creating fine works just by a tiny needle and colourful thread.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan said the people hardest hit by inflation were the poor - and most of them were farmers.

Vietnam's marine environment is facing increased pollution amid the lack of an effective pollution control mechanism, an official said.

Ten million people in the Horn of Africa have been hit by the worst drought in 60 years, the UN said.

China is set to launch its once-a-decade panda census, state media reported Monday.

UNESCO recognised the Ho Dynasty in the central province of Thanh Hoa as World Cultural Heritage site on June 27.

Scientists have warned that not only fresh water areas have been polluted, but sea water is also bearing a similar hard pressure.

The problem of getting power to poor remote households has been solved by young engineer Tran Quoc Hieu who has built a home wind generator.

Despite the grueling and lonely time they have endured, the wives of soldiers in the oil-rig houses still make their efforts to fulfill their duty.

To attract eyeballs, many newspapers and websites depend on showing celebrities’ bodies, with even their children being fair game.

A special environmental tax will be imposed on non biodegradable plastic bags next year in an attempt to reduce the usages at shops and markets.

After a local claimed to have identified the location of King Ham Nghi’s treasure, a historical expert said it is just a myth.

Tourism development is steadily threatening the ecosystem in central Vietnam, which is home to many endangered species of flora and fauna.

Many workers in industrial zones and export processing zones have been forced to work overtime to confront soaring prices on everyday necessities.

The US space agency said that it is sending a team of scientists on the second and final mission of a NASA field study on Arctic ice.