Environment

Starting February 15, it is illegal to play music or make loud noise recording over 70dBA in residential areas.

US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed with him on the need to fight climate change by moving ahead in international negotiations.

Greenpeace praised China for setting new pollution targets but said the measures fell well short of what was needed to curb the country's world-beating carbon emissions.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on Monday for a clean energy revolution that would make energy available for everyone, at a summit in Abu Dhabi.

Nguyen Phi Cuong shakes the iron box several times and more than 300 pigeons from different corners of the Notre Dame Cathedral swoop down to eat the rice grains he has scattered on the ground.

More than 40 Chinese animal rights groups hit out at Canada for turning China into a "dumping ground" for its seal meat and oils.

World agriculture is in trouble because it's the biggest consumer of ever scarcer water and a huge producer of greenhouse gas emissions, a new report said Wednesday.

Australia braced for a rapidly rising death toll Tuesday after flash floods killed eight and left 72 missing, as a quickly spreading flood disaster forced evacuations in central Brisbane.

Authorities in the central Nghe An Province are trying to persuade a local fisherman to release a giant endangered green turtle he caught last Monday back into the sea.

The number of violations of environmental law increased by 43 per cent in 2010 compared to 2009, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Ever since the Duong Lam Village was listed as “ancient” and thus subject to preservation, locals have been complaining they cannot renovate houses nor construct tall buildings.

Australian residents fled their homes as a major town was threatened by a worsening flood disaster which unleashed a plague of snakes and crocodiles.

As makers roll out slim versions of Playstation, smart phones, TVs and everything state-of-the-art, Hanoi boasts many slim houses just less than 2m wide but towering sky-high.

Vietnam's Son Doong cave is the largest in the world, with caverns big enough to fit an entire city street inside them.

The shenanigans of illegal brokers in front of hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City continue operating with impunity, trapping hapless patients in many dubious schemes.

Flood waters swept through vast areas of northeastern Australia in a disaster one official said was of "biblical proportions".

Italy is set to ban plastic bags from shops and supermarkets across the country on January 1.

Vietnam is hurriedly building its institutional framework for projects to cope with climate change, as the country is seen to be among the worst hit by global warming.

The East Sea has turned rough and gloomy, threatening shipping during the next 6 to7 days, the national weather bureau has said.