Environment

Vietnam should pay more attention to forest plantations and protection as it will help the country in mitigating the climate change as well as reducing the number of poor households.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Vietnam with a US$45 million loan for the Central Region Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project.

The documents for nomination of the Saint Giong Festival as an intangible cultural heritage of mankind meets the technical standards necessary to enter the next round of UNESCO evaluation.

Tourism in Da Nang is increasing heavily as the arrival of Tet approaches.

Hanoi plans to put into operation five more luxury hotels, offering an additional 2,000 rooms during 2010, the National Tourism Year.

Vietnam is in danger of lacking freshwater due to the impacts of industrialisation, population growth and climate change.

Pu Mat National Park, Nghe An Province is now home to two elephants, both about 1 year old.

It can be argued that the traditional wedding protocol of Lo Lo village does not exist anymore.

The Vietnam Innovation Day 2010 is an opportunity for innovative ideas that address local development challenge

The total costs associated with natural catastrophes in 2009 will be about $50 billion, according to estimates from Munich Re.

The first made-in-Vietnam incinerator for treating toxic solid waste has been put in use at hospitals across the country.

VTC14 is a special Vietnamese TV channel on the environment and natural disaster prevention, response and mitigation.

The new service will deploy expert Action-Units of journalists to scenes of major catastrophe.

The transport sector’s share of national CO2 emissions in Vietnam has almost doubled in the 1980 - 2005 period.

Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations and abandon the Kyoto protocol.

Photos show the world how Vietnam is being severely affected by climate change.

“A deal is within our reach,” the Danish Prime Minister said on Monday – the first day of the UN climate change conference.

Delegates from 192 countries are gathering in the Danish capital Copenhagen for the opening of the long-awaited UN summit on climate change.

Cambodian police confiscated arrested two men trying to smuggle two tons of live snakes and tortoises from Cambodia to Vietnam.