Environment

The recent upsurge in the outbreak of forest fires in the central region has prompted several provinces to take additional firefighting measures.

Flocks of birds fly just above the water surface of swamps in Tram Chim leading visitors to the heart of the national bird sanctuary.

Binh Dinh Province market management authorities and police seized 102 sea turtles that were being illegally transported in a car by a trafficker.

The soldiers sleep in tents and protected by high-powered rifles that also ward off the even more dangerous threat of poachers.

Just 30 wild tigers survive today in Vietnam out of 3,200 across the world, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

The application of best available techniques and the best environmental practices was discussed at a seminar in central coastal city of Danang.

The World Tiger Day will be held by World Wildlife Fund and the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network on July 30 for the 1st time in Vietnam.

The Union of Science for Sustainable Tourism Development plans to promote salt parks to tourists as an environmentally friendly attraction.

Hunting shark for their fins is popular in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh because Vietnam has not prohibited the practice.

A seminar on how to prevent and deal with natural disasters is being in held the central province of Danang on July 28-29.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai urged sea-going vessels to remain inshore as the Nock-10 tropical storm was approaching.

Vast sand dunes covering more than 100ha are threatening to bury three coastal villages in central Quang Binh Province.

Vietnam's Pho and Goi cuon have made it to US television channel CNN’s list of the “World’s 50 most delicious foods.”

Vietnam's first automatic reservoir monitor started its testing period on July 25 in northern Hung Yen province's Van Giang district.

A photo exhibition called “Legends of the land of An Tra” opened on July 22 in the central city of Quang Ngai.

The number of three to five-star hotels in HCM City has nearly doubled in the last three years to 73 with a total of 9,700 rooms, an agency said.

In Quang Nam Province, some poor men became multi-billionaires overnight after lucking upon a large quantity of aloe wood deep in a forest.

A short supply of public rubbish bins is blamed for a rising tide of bagged and unbagged refuse and litter being dumped in the streets of Hanoi.

HCM City will spend some VND12 trillion (USD583 million) on projects designed to deal with the negative impacts of climate change from now to 2015.