Environment

Don village was dubbed the “elephant kingdom” in the Central Highlands for its tradition of taming wild elephants and also worshipping them.

Scores of villagers on a remote Japanese island chain in the Pacific scrambled for higher ground after a major 7.4-magnitude offshore quake sparked a tsunami alert.

The Ho Chi Minh City-based Wildlife At Risk organisation announced the discovery of 12 new species of freshwater fish in Vietnam.

The Asian Development Bank is supporting conservation efforts in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in a community-driven initiative.

The conference on environment, climate change and role of legislative bodies in policy making was held in Hanoi.

Vietnam tourism authorities have decided to adopt a 10-year plan to try and attract rich tourists to its sparkling white beaches.

A new international accord on global warming has heartened environmentalists, but casting a shadow is the political shift in the US where legislative climate efforts died in 2010.

More than 20,000 households in the central and Mekong Delta region have benefited from a clean water and sanitation project implemented by East Meets West Foundation.

Migrants have added to the poor population in Vietnam’s urban areas but, so far, their numbers have not been accurately measured in poverty surveys.

A U.N. conference adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green.

Russia is a promising market for Vietnam's tourism industry, which aims to attract 350,000 Russian visitors by 2020, said a Vietnamese official.

Haunted by the criticism it endured after the Copenhagen climate summit, China has launched an image makeover as it recasts itself as a team player in global talks.

Climate negotiators voiced hope that UN-led talks would iron out differences to reach an accord on fighting deforestation and assisting poor countries worst hit by global warming.

Heavy snow blanketed Paris, sub-zero temperatures turned Scottish roads into deadly ice sheets and Spain and Portugal cleared up after flooding and tornado-like winds.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned the world is missing its last chance to control climate change, appealing to nations at talks in Mexico to ramp up progress.

The Government has adopted Decree 113/2010/NĐ-CP, stipulating four cases subjected to environmental compensation.

World climate talks in Cancun entered their final stretch beset by fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the December 2009 Copenhagen summit.

The global climate change is forecast to seriously affect the Ho Chi Minh City’s development by 2050 if no proper action is taken soon, said an expert.

More than 400 international environmental activists left Mexico City Wednesday in a convoy headed to a UN climate conference in Cancun.