Environment

Nitrogen pollution costs Europe between 70 and 320 billion euros per year in its impact on health and the environment.

Vietnam is carrying out a wide range of acitivities in order to maintain Ha Long Bay on New Open World’s 7 Natural Wonders list.

The Ministry of Science and Technology rejected the news saying that radioactive cloud from Japan arrived in Vietnam with a high level of radiation.

Many people are admitted to hospital with serious complications after prescribing their own medication for “minor” ailments.

Households moved out to make way for hydropower plants in several localities across Vietnam are not happy in new areas.

The number of tourists bookings for both outbound and inbound tours during the holidays of April 30 and May Day shot up despite economic difficulties.

Being exposed to highway pollution can cause brain damage in mice akin to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease, US researchers said.

China will allow Thailand to keep for two more years a giant panda cub with millions of fans and her own reality television show in the kingdom.

Data from a major US atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature.

A group of scientists have discovered that Lam Dong Province in the Central Highlands is the habitat of an endangered turtle species.

Vietnam has submitted documents on the worship rituals dedicated to Hung Kings to the UNESCO to seek its Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity recognition.

The five-star cruise liner SuperStar Aquarius with 2,200 foreign tourists and crew aboard docked at the world’s natural heritage, Ha Long Bay on April 3.

Up to 101 out of 439 'black spots' that have seriously polluted the environment  are yet to be cleaned up, eight years after the Prime Minister's decision.

An European Union-funded pilot community-based training for economic empowerment programme has taken root in central Ha Tinh province.

Central Phu Yen province with its pure environment and pristine natural scenery will be a popular destination for Russian tourists, said a Russian diplomat.

Long-term vision and short-term planning should be the twin planks on which the Mekong Delta should base its adaptation to climate change, Dutch experts said.

There was a time when young women around the city practiced the old-fashioned art of belly dancing in their bid to have a beautiful body.

More elderly people in Vietnam with time on their hands are discovering, perhaps for the first time, the joys of travel.

A radioactive cloud from the quake-damaged Fukushima reactor explosions in Japan is forecast to disperse over Southeast Asian region.