The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) International Forum on Climate Change opened in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, on September 6, aiming at strengthening international cooperation in response to climate change.

The Hoi An City People’s Committee in the central province of Quang Nam on September 5 said a waste treatment plant would be built on Cham Island and would provide microbiology fertilizer.

Contestants from nearly 90 countries and territories will take part in the month-long Miss Earth beauty pageant to be held in Vietnam in November. HCM City’s Miss Vietnam World 2010, Luu Thi Diem Huong, will represent the host.

Rascals cut tails of two elephants, which are serving at the Prenn Waterfall Tourist Area in the Highland city of Dalat on August 31. Hunting elephants for tail hair has boomed in the Central provinces, which is famous for elephant taming, because people believe that luck will come to those who wear elephant-tail-hair-made jewelry.

A forest rangers station in the central Binh Thuan Province has succeeded in protecting 20,000ha forest for the last 16 years despite having only 11 rangers, thanks to local residents embracing the cause.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has asked three provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Phuoc and Lam Dong and scientists to soon complete the dossier on Cat Tien National Park to submit UNESCO for recognition as one of the world’s natural heritage sites in September.

Hanoi has ‘dressed up’ to welcome the National Day (September 2).

The northern province of Quang Ninh will host the ASEM Forum on climate change and measures for adaptation and mitigation on September 6-7, said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE).

It saddens me to address this issue but I don’t believe things will get better on their own. The nation’s litter problem has improved in cities but elsewhere, Vietnam’s garbage problem only seems to be getting worse.

The People’s Committee of Binh Dinh Province has promulgated the Document No.2841 on organizing activities responding to the “Make the world cleaner” Campaign, aiming to encourage the nature protection and preservation as well as the biodiversification development.