25/08/2014|08:37:00

Vietnam is one of the 13 countries that have tigers in the wild, yet it is facing an urgent challenge in protecting the species, which is being pushed to the brink of extinction due to economic and social pressures.

18/08/2014|02:41:00

Residents in seven districts of the central city have lacked clean water since last week as the salinity in Cau Do water plant –Da Nang's major water supply –reached an alarming high of 9.950mg per litre.

11/08/2014|04:51:00

Many legal documents and instructions on the standard process of operating hydropower water reservoirs have been released, but these represent no assurance to the people who live in the lowlands.

31/07/2014|09:59:00

“We should not expect that hydropower plants can prevent floods for the lowlands. They can never do this. Floods will still come. We have to accept to live together with floods,” said Nguyen Tai Anh, deputy general director of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the largest power group, the investor of many power plants and the only electricity retailer in Vietnam.

24/07/2014|04:28:00

Twenty seven people were killed and missing in the northern mountain provinces by the Typhoon Rammasun, including seven people in Ha Giang, six in Lai Chau, five in Lang Son, three in Son La, one in Dien Bien, one in Cao Bang, one in Bac Kan and three in Lao Cai, reported by the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and National Committee for Search and Rescue on July 22.