Environment

The air in most Asian cities is getting more polluted and the rivers filthier, but experts believe in a green vision for the region.

Waste water from many hospitals in HCM City goes directly to sewers without any treatment, thus bringing germs from hospitals to the community.

The lives of former drug addicts are displayed through the lens of photographer Pham Hoai Thanh in an exhibition in Hanoi.

Vietnamese documentaries, considered to be a strong point in the country's cinematography industry, have not advanced as well as expected.

Schemes to convert croplands or marginal lands to forests will make almost no inroads against global warming this century, a scientific study said.

About 4,500 residents in Thanh Hoa have suffered from respiratory problems due to noxious gases being emitted by a local paper company.

85 percent of urban and 40 to 50 percent of rural solid waste is set to be processed, in accordance with environmental standards, by late 2015.

Though ostensibly well guarded, Ho Chi Minh City apartments are regularly burgled, leaving residents anxious and scared.

Over 100,000 visitors flocked to the fifth Sea Festival 2011 themed “Nha Trang – The Sea Rendezvous”, which wrapped up on June 15.

The internationally famous ‘ceramic road’ running along the Red River in Hanoi has now begun to show signs of damage and decay.

Fishermen in traditional costumes praying for a good fishing harvest aroused the curiosity of visitors to a sea festival in Nha Trang City.

Natural disasters kill some 500 people and cause an economic loss of saround USD700 million in Vietnam annually, said a report.

Vietnam’s elephants are likely to be extinct in the next 10 years, said a representative from the Wildlife Conservation Society in Vietnam.

Experts from Wildlife At Risk have discovered Taylor’s bug-eyed frogs, which is in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in Quang Ngai Province.

A Vietnamese agency has made public 11 national records at the closing ceremony of the Quang Binh Province’s Cultural-Tourism Week 2011.

A workshop themed “Sweden-Vietnam partnership in sustainability” was held in the central city of Danang on June 6.

Urban experts blamed HCM City's chronic flood situation on rapid urban development and unplanned construction, not climate change.

An exhibition collecting public opinions on the selection of Vietnam’s national flower closed in Ho Chi Minh City on June 12.

Nha Trang Sea Festival 2011 took off at the April 2 Square on June 11 with a colourful opening ceremony