Rescue workers are trying to reach a missing miner trapped by tonnes of earth and water in a coal-mine tunnel in Quang Ninh province's Ha Long City. His name is Phan Van Van.

HA NOI (VNS) — Half the men in Ha Noi are addicted to smoking tobacco, according to Viet Nam Steering Committee on Smoking and Health.

An increasing amount of ash and cinder released by thermal power plants is causing serious pollution and making waste treatment more difficult in industrial parks, a representative from the Ministr

Northern Dien Bien Province has lost 22,000ha of forest because of illegal logging, and the loss is expected to increase as forest rangers admit they cannot stop illegal logging.

Poaching rhinos is a grisly business.

QUANG NAM (VNS) — Residents in central Quang Nam Province's Nui Thanh District complain that their daily life has been disrupted by environmental pollution from the Chu Lai Soda Processing JSC.

People in several northern provinces of the country continued to be hit by more rain and floods today.

Flooding in northern Vietnam has killed at least 17 people, with the continuing rain prompting concerns of landslides and of pollution from inundated coal mines reaching one of the country’s most f

Vietnam's northeastern Quang Ninh province is suffering from the heaviest downpours in the past days with 15 people killed and seven others missing.

Thermal power plants are under much pressure as they seek to resolve environmental issues that are plaguing them.