Environment

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.

Enterprises’ increasing environmental pollution is leaving southern Binh Duong province authorities in a bind.

The Ministry of Transport’s Registration Department will launch the nation’s first vehicle emission testing centre later this month.

Countries in the lower Mekong River region should delay any decisions about building hydropower dams for 10 years, an influential new study said Friday.

Carbon pollution and over-use of Earth's natural resources have become so critical that we will need a second planet to meet our needs by 2030, the WWF said.

Hanoi held a meeting o­n October 13 to launch the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction with the theme “Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready”.

Hanoi and the Japanese Prefecture of Fukuoka will prioritize cooperation on building institutions and policies on environment.

The Government has just approved a plan to build six solid-waste treatment facilities for the Mekong Delta.