Environment

The Japan Red Cross will fund USD2.5 million for a project to plant mangrove forests in Vietnam.

Vietnam will put a television commercial on BBC in a tourism promotion campaign this year.

None of the women in Kim Lien village in Danang can remember when they began to earn their living as hawkers by jumping from a bridge on top of moving trains.

The Institute for Biological Technology said that it has finalised the DNA test of the legendary turtle in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake.

The Hanoi Environment Group is organising a series of activities in Hanoi to mark Earth Day 2011 on April 22.

EU energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger is preparing legislation to force oil-drilling companies to pay for pollution, a source said.

The European Union Delegation to Vietnam and the Sinh Vien newspaper will organise a short film competition on the impact of climate change in Vietnam.

Two tombs and a perfectly preserved well that are believed to date back between 4th and 6th century have just been dug up in Hanoi’s Ciputra residential area.

Fallout from Chernobyl remains a poorly-investigated hazard for the environment a quarter of a century after the disaster, say experts.

Hoi An has become a major tourist destination for individual travelers and tour groups in the world since it was recognized as World Heritage.

The Vietnamese Government has been urged to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative that is believed to help curb mining pollution.

Photos that highlight Vietnam’s sovereignty through vestiges related to Hoang Sa Archipelago on Ly Son Island are now displayed in Quang Ngai.

The Centre for Preservation of Co Loa Relics has asked for permission to conduct research and compile a dossier for the Co Loa citadel to seek world cultural heritage status.

Authorities in the capital city need to do more to ensure Hanoi's continued development is eco-friendly and "climate-proof", said a UN climate change expert.

Scientists have said the flock of birds numbering in the thousands that have recently come to Ninh Thuan province are red necked phalaropes.

A nature reserve in Vietnam is being established to protect one of the world's rarest mammals, a conservation group said Thursday.

Dressing up in hospital clothes and slathering themselves with red water colors, some lazy individuals pretend to be disabled to play on people's sympathy.

Over the last few days the more I thought about the article “What’s wrong with tourism in Vietnam?”, the more it annoyed me.

The council for treatment of Hoan Kiem turtle has decided to move the legendary turtle from the treatment tank to the “sanatorium”.