Taking the water from the Red River and the West Lake to clean To Lich River is just one piece of the puzzle. Drastic actions are needed to keep the environment clean and green.

Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam, one of Hanoi's most important cultural landmarks, attracts thousands of visitors each Tet.

Vietnam has made remarkable strides in developing a comprehensive, life-cycle, and gender-transformative social protection system.

Rampant air-borne pollution is causing massive health problems in leading cities throughout Viet Nam, according to a report recently released by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Vietnam Literature Copyright Centre (VLCC) and the Korean Society of Authors (KOSA) inked a cooperation agreement in Hanoi on September 23 to increase bilateral cooperation on literary authority.

Vietnam will have to face with an astonishing redundancy of 2.3 to 4.3 million men unable to find wives to get married as gender imbalance in the sex ratio at birth increased from 106.2 boys /100 girls in 2000 to 113.8 boys/100 girls in 2013.

Vietnam took top honours at Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools (IDEERS) competition held in Taiwan from September 20-21, which attracted the participation of 100 teams from 10 countries and territories in the Asia- Pacific region.

Khanh Hoi estuary in U Minh District, the southernmost province of Ca Mau is suffering from a severe soil erosion by sea level rises, deforming its natural shape, causing environmental pollution, and threatening the life of local people.

Migrant labour was the focus of an ASEAN meeting held on September 23 in Hanoi.

Vietnam is one of the countries likely to be hardest hit by climate change, mainly through rising sea levels, said Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh at the UN Climate Summit in New York on September 23.

The unbalanced sex ratio at birth gradually has increased from 105 to 106 to 120 boys per 100 girls over the last 14 years, mainly concentrated in the north, especially in the Red River Delta.

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Van Tung joined delegates from 187 countries at the opening ceremony of the 54th session of the General Assembly of Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva on September 22.

Retailers and residents in Hanoi are ditching plastic in favour of eco-friendly bags, according to the city`s Department of Natural Resources and the Environment.

Dozens of tons of waste from cesspools in residential quarters are dumped into the environment every day in Dong Nai, but local authorities say they have received no reports about the problem.

The Halvo Ltd company of Japan has successfully tested its technology in Viet Nam that will be used to purify water and treat waste water.

From 2015 onwards, the measure for poverty will comprise five factors, including living conditions, access to education and health care, access to information, and access to insurance and social assistance, instead of the previous measure of income levels.

The National Assembly and Government need to review and adopt legal regulations to mitigate air pollution, a major contributor to the greenhouse effect.

The Republic of Korea (RoK)`s labour market may be closed off to Vietnamese workers if Vietnam does not make more effort to reduce the number overstaying their visas and working illegally.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to grant VND234.5 billion (about $11 million) to 14 localities to resolve problems caused by drought and sea water encroachment.

Vietnamese and foreign experts discussed in Hanoi on September 17 a project to prevent child labour in Vietnam.

The Steering Committee for the Southwest Region and leaders of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long visited a number of local pagodas on September 17 on the occasion of the Sene Dolta Festival, a Khmer holiday to honour ancestors.

Hanoi has begun a pilot project to introduce electronic smartcards in the city, with the installation of smartcard readers on the Giap Bat-Gie Bridge bus route this month.

Da Nang, which has some of the most advanced infrastructure in the country, has been facing a serious water shortage since mid-August, a highly unusual situation for the city.