To support the worldwide Earth Hour 2013 campaign, The Responsible Travel Club of Viet Nam will host a joyful event on Saturday for everybody to power the Earth.
As a gesture of their commitment to the threat of global warming, hotels in town will be turning off their lights to mark Earth Hour 2013 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Up to now, over 1,000 young people and around 40 clubs and groups in Da Nang have registered to participate in the 2013 Earth Hour programme, the organisers have recently announced.
The fourth Regional 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) Forum in Asia closed in Hanoi on March 20 with the adoption of the Hanoi 3R Declaration – Sustainable 3R Goals for Asia for 2013-2023.
“Green School” – one of the key projects of the 2013 Earth Hour Campaign in Ho Chi Minh City – was inaugurated at Tran Hung Dao Primary School in District 1 on March 15.
This year's Hung Kings' Temple Festival in Phu Tho Province will be a special event as it will honor and receive world intangible cultural heritage certification.
Editor’s Note: Heather Woodward, a Ho Chi Minh City-based American, has been teaching English in Vietnam for two and a half years. She wrote this article to share her feelings about studying the Dan Tranh (plucked zither of Vietnam) and relate it to other forms of Vietnamese traditional arts.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has officially launched three projects which focus on promoting sustainable shrimp aquaculture, developing responsible tourism and eco-tourism, and improving low carbon development in Vietnam.
A high-ranking leader has said that local artisans should be honoured and encouraged to promote traditional Dong Ho folk painting preservation and development.
Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) has partnered with the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), a South African non-profit (NPO) non-governmental (NGO) organization, to produce two new posters campaigning for rhino protection.