Environment

Nearly 8,000 households have been moved from flood-prone areas in the Mekong Delta since 2008, under a national programme.

After a World Wildlife Fund-sponsored plan, Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap province is seeing Sarus Cranes return in large numbers.

Twenty-one long-finned pilot whales have died but 11 were saved after beaching themselves at Bruny Island.

Hundreds of households in a commune in Dak Lak Province fear that they and their crops could be harmed after a wild elephant killed a local man.

Various types of Vietnamese costumes, besides the national costume – Ao dai (traditional long dress) are displayed in the U.S. to represent cultural diversity.

Around 350 delegates will attend the second international conference on geological parks in the Asia-Pacific region to be held in Hanoi in July.

Early one morning, some friends and I went to the hat market in Chuong Village about 30 kilometres from the centre of Hanoi.

Gong, and drum performances, and traditional dances of the Central Highlands enthralled visitors at the third coffee festival in Buon Ma Thuot.

Japan's nuclear crisis will boost interest in clean renewables such as solar and wind power but may also sharpen demand for coal, oil and gas, experts said.

G60+ is the title of a campaign to welcome World Wild Fund for Nature’s Earth Hour 2011 which starts at 8.30 p.m. March 26.

Workers at many foreign- invested companies are struggling as their wages are swallowed up by inflation.

Hoi An has made it to the list of the world's 10 best cities for tourism by the UK's Wanderlust travel magazine.

Around 8.4 million Vietnamese people will be short of safe water by 2050, according to the Asian Development Bank’s warning.

Vietnam is trying to reform administrative procedures to create more favourable conditions for clean development mechanism projects.

Vietnam is now on the watch for possible earthquakes and tsunamis because of similar recent disasters in China and Japan.

The Yen Bai province environmental authority has taken samples of the Red River for testing and advised locals to limit their direct use of the river water.

A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake shook Japan on Friday, unleashing a powerful tsunami that sent ships crashing into the shore.

The UN expressed alarm at a huge decline in bee colonies under a multiple onslaught of pests and pollution.

Mention Can Gio, the most remote district of HCMC, and people think of mangrove forests, mudflats and coconut trees; but now it's different.