Real estate experts are concerned that the surging number of resorts last year is causing wastes of lands and environment pollutions, leaving the property market to be hit in 2011.
A project to build an eco-village in Tien Chuong Commune in the central province of Ha Tinh to prompt increasing awareness of the need for environment protection started yesterday, Dec 29.
Recently, thousands of blobs of oil have appeared mysteriously on My Khe beach in Da Nang City. The coagulated oil blobs were mixed with seaweed and have been drifting ashore for a few days.
This might have been a cute photograph for a coffee-table book. A small turtle riding piggyback on a larger one. Given that it was taken at Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake, it could have also meant something to get excited about.
In Hanoi, on December 28, Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd. (CVN) signed an agreement with Luc Ngan District People's Committee, Cam Son Protective Forest Management Board from Bac Giang province, Thanh Hoa Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ben En National Park from Thanh Hoa province for the planting forest “For a green Vietnam 2011” project.
Mangrove forest plantation has made remarkable contributions to preventing calamity, improving ecological environment and reducing poverty.
Ho Chi Minh City needs more than VND20 trillion (US$1.05 billion) by 2015 to cope with the impacts of climatic change, but authorities have yet to draft action plans. Districts with incomplete infrastructure, like 12, Can Gio, Hoc Mon, and Binh Chanh, will be the worst affected, the HCM City Climate Change Steering Board said.
Situated on a peanut and maize farm in central Quang Binh province, Rustic Chay Lap stands beneath the towering limestone cliffs which punctuate the beautiful but seldom visited World Natural Heritage site of Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park.
Cold is sweeping through Sapa in northern Lao Cai Province but this famous tourist destination is still very lively and full of colour despite the dropping temperatures.
Most shoppers in a mini survey conducted among 100 shoppers at major supermarkets in the city say they are willing to give up the habit of using plastic bags for shopping, the HCMC Waste Recycling Fund said.