Environment

Despite the grueling and lonely time they have endured, the wives of soldiers in the oil-rig houses still make their efforts to fulfill their duty.

To attract eyeballs, many newspapers and websites depend on showing celebrities’ bodies, with even their children being fair game.

A special environmental tax will be imposed on non biodegradable plastic bags next year in an attempt to reduce the usages at shops and markets.

After a local claimed to have identified the location of King Ham Nghi’s treasure, a historical expert said it is just a myth.

Tourism development is steadily threatening the ecosystem in central Vietnam, which is home to many endangered species of flora and fauna.

Many workers in industrial zones and export processing zones have been forced to work overtime to confront soaring prices on everyday necessities.

The US space agency said that it is sending a team of scientists on the second and final mission of a NASA field study on Arctic ice.

Vietnamese urban experts, together with local and foreign partners, have launched a contest to redesign Thong Nhat Park.

The air in most Asian cities is getting more polluted and the rivers filthier, but experts believe in a green vision for the region.

Waste water from many hospitals in HCM City goes directly to sewers without any treatment, thus bringing germs from hospitals to the community.

The lives of former drug addicts are displayed through the lens of photographer Pham Hoai Thanh in an exhibition in Hanoi.

Vietnamese documentaries, considered to be a strong point in the country's cinematography industry, have not advanced as well as expected.

Schemes to convert croplands or marginal lands to forests will make almost no inroads against global warming this century, a scientific study said.

About 4,500 residents in Thanh Hoa have suffered from respiratory problems due to noxious gases being emitted by a local paper company.

85 percent of urban and 40 to 50 percent of rural solid waste is set to be processed, in accordance with environmental standards, by late 2015.

Though ostensibly well guarded, Ho Chi Minh City apartments are regularly burgled, leaving residents anxious and scared.

Over 100,000 visitors flocked to the fifth Sea Festival 2011 themed “Nha Trang – The Sea Rendezvous”, which wrapped up on June 15.

The internationally famous ‘ceramic road’ running along the Red River in Hanoi has now begun to show signs of damage and decay.

Fishermen in traditional costumes praying for a good fishing harvest aroused the curiosity of visitors to a sea festival in Nha Trang City.