Environment

Harmful, foul-smelling waste water has been discharged into the Rach Van River in Ba Ria- Vung Tau Province every day, causing pollution.

Domestic and foreign visitors had a chance to enjoy fresh fruit available in the southern region at the Southern Fruit Festival 2011 in HCM City.

Teachers and students of HCM City’s primary schools have collected more than 450,000 milk cans to call for environment protection.

Vietnamese bakers made “My village” with bamboo, coconut trees and houses on stilts as their submission at the world banking competition.

A lot of travel firms in HCM City have decided to design “economy tours” with low costs in order to retain clients aming rising costs.

Young filmmaker Ngo Thi Thanh received the Vietnam Green Documentary Film Award first prize on May 29.

The second annual Green Product Consumption campaign to raise environmental awareness has kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City.

Rangers find 5,000 traps laid for gaurs and bears In the Cat Tien National Park every year.

Environmentalists have confirmed that wild gaur, an ox-like animal, have begun to return in large herds to Cat Tien National Park.

Purchasing fruits and food on the railway and running away when trains come is the everyday scenes at the railroad passing Co Nhue Commune.

Authorities in Central Highlands Vietnam are seeking ways to combine climate change with regional development plan.

The illegal ivory market continues to flourish in Vietnam despite public anger over the recent death of a tame elephant.

Though the recent unexplained death of a tame elephant in Da Lat has caused fury, the government has not been able to eliminate the illegal ivory market.

Well educated, middle-aged people and public employees tend to consume wild animal products more frequently than people of other age groups.

Central China's worst drought in more than 50 years is drying reservoirs, stalling rice planting, and threatens crippling power shortages.

Unlike in the past landslides are now a threat even during the dry season along the Tien and Hau rivers in the Mekong Delta.

Ha Long, Vietnam’s world natural heritage, gained the highest growth in votes in the poll for the seven new world natural wonders.

Authorities in two provinces of Vietnam and Laos are discussing ways to map out an action plan to fight cross-border trafficking of wild animals.

A coastal hamlet in the central province of Binh Thuan has the dubious distinction of attracting abandoned women who do sex work for a living.