A vegetable farm run by Mua Company in Long Thanh district, the southern province Dong Nai, has become the first in Vietnam to be certified as meeting organic cultivation standards of the US Departmen

The Week of Urban Green Growth Vietnam 2015 was launched on November 4 in Hanoi as part of the activities to celebrate the Vietnam Urban Day (November 8).

The number of lakes in Hanoi has decreased from 122 to 112 between 2010 and 2015, with 17 completely leveled and seven additional lakes added.

The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak needs a proper land use strategy to mitigate soil erosion and develop existing land resources, scientists have recommended.

Over the past few years, Ho Chi Minh City has mobilised various resources to revive dead canals and improve its waterways.

Vietnam was identified as a transshipment point for international wildlife trafficking rings from Africa, primarily in Mozambique, Kenya and Tanzania, during a multilateral dialogue in Hanoi on Novemb

A road map of energy efficiency use for the national food-processing industry in the period of 2016 to 2020 is expected to be built following a project presented on October 29 in Hanoi.

The national target programme on energy efficiency has achieved satisfactory results in the last five years, according to officials attending a seminar organised in Ho Chi Minh City on October 30.

Environment ministers from the ASEAN member states reviewed their cooperation in environment sustainability within the framework of the Comprehensive Plan for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community.

A forum on ‘Mekong outlook: changes and expectations’ was organised in Hanoi on October 29 by the Centre for Humans and Nature.

The third conference of an expert working group on humanitarian mine action within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting- Plus (ADMM+) was held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue

Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) launched a joint project on modernising the disaster forecasting and warning system for Vietnam’s Northeast region at a conference on October 28.

Supporting Vietnam to implement and duplicate smart agricultural models adaptive to climate change was the main focus of a workshop between Vietnamese and Dutch experts held in Hanoi on October 28.

More than 40 kilometres of shoreline in the southernmost province of Cau Mau have been badly damaged by the gradual sinking of land into the ocean, the province announced.