Environment

Some 8.7 million different species exist on Earth, though a tiny amount of those have actually been discovered and catalogued, researchers said.

Fashionable, dirt-cheap helmets are flooding Hanoi’s pavements. All of them are not verified for quality and made by recycled plastic.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism will organise two promotional campaigns in the next two months in China.

Beautiful sites in the capital city of Hanoi and central provinces will be spotted in a documentary film made by the Kansai Telecasting Corporation.

It may be on the doorstep of a heaving metropolis, but this island remains an undeveloped paradise, writes Craig Tansley.

Forests and rivers from the Central Highlands’ Dak Nong Province have been heavily disturbed by illegal gold mining of two companies.

Along with the night market on the Hang Dao - Dong Xuan pedestrian walkway, Hanoi will have a cultural cuisine ward in the Old Quarter.

Experts have called for professionalising environmental management and protection and scrapping contradictory environmental regulations.

Climate change is turning rivers of Mekong Delta salty, spelling disaster for millions of poor farmers.

Michael Gebicki picks up tips on rice noodles and real estate on an insider's tour of Hanoi street food.

The northernmost province of Ha Giang celebrated its 120th anniversary on August 20.

Vietnamese hotels are offering guests the most innovative high-tech gadgets and software on the market.

Nguyen Chinh Tam, the writer of three analyses “Seeking a new order in the East Sea”, emphasised institutionalising the East Sea disputes.

Travel firms and airlines will cooperate to develop MICE (meeting, incentives, conference, exhibition) tourism in Vietnam.

Vietnam has an ambitious plan to bring renewable energy to around 600,000 households in rural, mountainous and out-of-the-way coastal areas by 2020, according to the Institute of Energy.

HCM City is adjusting the 2011-2015 action plan for climate change adaptation, whose budget is also revised up to VND16 trillion.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are still discriminated in Vietnam and are often exposed to domestic violence, sociologists warned.

Environment protection tax will be imposed next year on products classified as hazardous to the environment.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has adopted an Action Plan to cope with climate change in the city from 2011 to 2015.