Environment

The National Assembly was urged to set up a committee to inspect responsibility of the government members in the case.

Floods triggered by heavy rains during the past two days have killed at least three people and left two others missing in central coastal provinces.

The European Union gave notice it was not prepared to go beyond a planned 20-percent cut in greenhouse-gas emissions ahead of next month's UN climate talks.

Many people in the central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province felt short of breath this past week  due to toxic gases emitted by Dung Quat, the country’s first oil refinery.

Conde Nast Traveler, a renowned luxury travel magazine, has placed 5 Vietnamese hotels and resorts atop its list of Readers’ Choice Awards.

The high-tech nation is pushing the initiative to promote some of its ancient village wisdom as a way to heal battered environments worldwide.

Industrial enterprises in the Mekong Delta have begun to practice cleaner production techniques as part of a program sponsored by the Danish International Development Agency.

The government has said it will tighten control over the leasing of forest land to foreign investors

Unplanned stone mining is denigrating the beauty of the Dong Van Stone Highlands, Vietnam’s first UNESCO-recognized geopark.

The Minister of Natural Resources and Environment assured that two red-mud lakes in the Central Highlands were safe.

Tigers could become extinct within 12 years but a top level meeting in Russia next month could help reverse the decline, nature conservation body WWF said.

Lawmakers yesterday deliberated on a draft environmental-tax law, focusing on which products should be taxed, who is taxable and what is the appropriate tax rate.

The Ho Chi Minh City tourism authority will survey a new tourist route upstream the Saigon River to the neighboring province of Dong Nai early on November.

The World Wildlife Fund announced a financial aid of US $213,773 for the central province of Thua Thien-Hue to protect Saola’s reserve in province.

The 2nd deadly flood has claimed 46 lives, left 21 missing and caused 18 injuries in the central region of Vietnam.

Coral reefs in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean are dying from the worst bleaching effect in more than a decade, Australian marine scientists said Tuesday.

Education of Nature - Vietnam has launched a website on tigers at http://www.thiennhien.org/BVH , to protect the few remaining tigers in the world.

The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines in years killed at least 10 people as it generated waves as big as houses and destroyed swathes of vital rice crops, authorities said Tuesday.

Philippine authorities said Tuesday the death toll from Typhoon Megi had risen to three.