Metro Cash & Carry Vietnam is displaying a reusable bag measuring 10.6 meters high, 13.6 meters long and 5.45 meters wide at its wholesale center in Dist. 2, HCM City, to call for its customers and suppliers to use reusable bags rather plastic bags in order to help protect the environment.
Four new reptiles have recently been found in the Biosphere Reserve of Kien Giang, a province in the Mekong Delta of Southern Vietnam.
Neighbors tend to mistake Nguyen Dinh Tien’s 30-square-meter house in Hanoi for a small farm as the area reeks of poultry and pheasant cages are strewn all over the floor.
Dinner cruises - the main polluters of the two most scenic lakes in Hanoi - have not yet been removed, despite a Transport Department mandate that took effect two months ago.
Khmer, one of the ethnic peoples living in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long, is rich in traditional cultures and crafts. Com dep (flat green rice) is one of the crafts that the Khmer people have made a great effort to preserve and develop, according to Vietnam News Agency.
HCM City “forgot” to design construction plans for car parks and public toilets, though it remembered golf courses. Some might say its memory was too good on that head, for concerns about land waste and environmental pollution are being voiced.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has permitted Binh Dinh Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and Southern Region Institute for Sustainable Development to continue the archaeological excavation of Duong Long towers.
Leaders of Binh Dinh Environment and Natural Resources Department on November 26, 2008 held a meeting with the delegation of Challenge to Change on adapting to the impact of the climate change in Quy Nhon.
The UNESCO Vietnam association has announced the launch of two new awards, named “Vietnam’s cultural and tourism heritage” and “In support of the preservation and development of Vietnam’s cultural heritage”.
The work of ground leveling is underway for the construction of an early tsunami warning and flood control centre in the central coastal province of Quang Nam, the provincial People’s Committee said on Nov. 26, 2008.