Environment

Vietnam has seen an alarming increase in cases of child sexual abuse in recent years, with some victims as young as six years old.

San Diu ethnic paintings, meant for worship and found in the mountainous northern province of Tuyen Quang, owe much of their survival to local collectors.

The second phase of the HCM City Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Environmental Sanitation Project could benefit from a public private partnership arrangement.

While developed countries invest millions of USD in waste recycling, Vietnam is among the top nations which are wasting this “new” resource.

Large predators are on the decline worldwide, a trend that is disrupting the Earth's ecosystem in all kinds of unusual ways, researchers said.

Aloes wood, including tram huong and ky nam, are national forbidden goods, but they have been exploited uncontrollably.

Vietnam's first automatic monitoring device for wastewater has been launched in the southern province of Binh Duong.

Both competent agencies and scientists are still fumbling for an effective solution to control the polluted river of Saigon.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been named among top ten Asian cities for 2011 by the US Travel and Leisure magazine.

Discrimination hinders millions of disabled people in Vietnam from exercising their basic right for a healthy sex life.

The ADB will help the Greater Mekong Subregion scale up the use of agricultural biomass waste for its growing clean energy and food security needs.

International Enterprises Singapore and the World Bank will help choose a development model for an environment project in HCM City.

The number of local shamans is slowly reducing, putting traditional local customs at risk, according to researchers and locals in Hoa Binh Province.

Scientists offered a piece of good news about global warming, reporting that cities can be of surprising help in soaking up carbon dioxide.

Dak Lak Province’s famed tame elephants may become extinct in the next 20-25 years due to being exploited excessively.

About 60ha of forest were destroyed by forest fires that broke out in some central localities last Thursday and Friday.

A Vietnamese architectural work made from bamboo has won the International Architecture Award of the Chicago Athenaeum Museum in the US.

According to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's new criteria, 20 more exotic species have been listed as possibly invasive.

Australia announced plans on Sunday to tax carbon pollution at Aus$23 (US$24.74) per tonne to help battle climate change.