Coal pollution plunges Hai Duong residents into misery

Air pollution has become a serious health hazard, but Vietnam is unable to kick its smoking habit.

Hanoi suffered 60 days of poor air quality last year but “people shouldn’t be too alarmed,” an environment ministry official has said.

As long as the government does nothing to amend existing environmental standards, more lives will be lost just from breathing.

Serpents’ Tails, a project by an award-winning Vietnamese artist visualizing exhaust gas using serpent-like figures, opens in Saigon on April 19. 

Air pollution will shorten the life expectancy of children born today by an average of 20 months and will have the greatest impact in South Asia.

Hanoi has been ranked the second most polluted city in Southeast Asia on the basis of incomplete data, says Vietnam.

Asia's businesses are promising increasingly inventive perks in a desperate bid to lure executives to a region where toxic air engulfs major cities for much of the year.

Hanoi has seen air quality improve over the past year but it remains one of Southeast Asia’s most polluted cities.

Its risk of becoming a "golden dragon that is surrounded by coal ash" is real.

Decades of rapid economic growth has been a blessing for Vietnamese cities, as well as a curse in disguise.

Long lines of vehicles choked Hanoi streets Friday as people began their homeward journey for Tet.

Air quality in Hanoi has been hitting alarming levels of late, with experts pointing fingers at Tet traffic.

North Korea is already suffering from some of the world's most toxic air, but its leader Kim Jong Un sees coal as a key way to boost the economy.