Vietnamese Tan Son Nhat International Airport’s authorities are seeking solutions to deal with flooding as its operation has been affected badly due to heavy rains, state media reported. The rain on September 11 quickly flooded the airport, leaving...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City have said that the tap water leakage rate in the city remains high, hitting around 28%, causing a loss worth more than $130,000 per day. Statistics by Saigon Water Corporation (Sawaco...
The Animals Asia on September 12 announced that it has received a Malayan sun bear and two monkeys that were caged as pets in Buon Ma Thuot city, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak. Initial information from the Dak Lak Department of Forest...
A two-day conference on intensifying investment in clean energy within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum 2016 is taking place in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi with the aim of reducing energy consumption in the region by 45% by...
A group of environmentalists from the non-governmental organization GreenViet Biodiversity Conservation Center won a scholarship package from American real estate billionaire Beth Molasky to travel to the U.S. to learn measures to preserve the red-...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has requested relevant ministries and local authorities to remove small steel plants with backward technology and do not meet environmental standards. Protecting the environment should be more...
Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa have sent a report to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc over the massive death of natural fish and fish raised in aquatic farms in Tinh Gia district, state media has reported. Last week, local...
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International has said that Vietnam must take severe measures against illegal trade of rhino horns in the context that rhino poaching shows no signs of abating, South African newswire Citizen.co.za has reported....
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Evan Maureen Ryan arrived in Vietnam on Sept.9 for a two-day working visit in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. She was here to promote the English for All program that was launched by...
The Vietnam-Japan University (VJV) last week launched the academic year 2016-2017 and officially started its first training courses, state media reported. The VJU was established as the seventh member college of the Hanoi-based Vietnam National...
