Environment

Vietnam has formally called on Laos to halt the proposed Xayaburi hydropower project for 10 years to assess its impact on the Mekong River.

Vietnam’s leading tour operator Saigontourist has received 2,000 visitors from the Costa Classica cruise ship on April 26.

We were led up a creek bed that was a doorway to the jungle where signs of humanity disappeared and the green canopy shut out the sky.

About 400 people collected plastic and other rubbish around West Lake on Saturday.

The World Bank has agreed to provide an additional loan of 14.5 million USD for a sub-project to improve environmental hygiene in Nha Trang city.

Limited cultivation areas and a failure to satisfy choosy customers' demnd are challenging the Vietnamese flower sector in their exports.

Travel companies have rolled out several new tours during the upcoming Liberation Day and Labour Day holidays.

It is compared to “Vietnam’s prow” which is reaching to the sea, but the Ca Mau cape is being eroded seriously.

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.