BANGKOK (AP) — An environmental watchdog has accused Vietnamese government and military officials of taking payoffs to ignore vast smuggling of lucrative lumber from neighboring Cambodia. Millions of ...

Vietnam plans to certify as sustainable some 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles) of production forests in the country and boost timber export value to $8 billion by 2020. Nearly a quarter of ...

Vietnam exported nearly $1 billion worth of timber products to China in 2019, but the trade faces a steep decline as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. There were 93 Chinese-owned companies ...

Ha Noi, Viet Nam, 24th September 2019—TRAFFIC partnered with the Vietnam Forestry Administration last week to hold a two-day workshop for 35 Vietnamese forestry and customs officials to build their ...

Reduced tariffs and competitive prices will facilitate the growth of the Vietnamese timber industry after the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) comes into ...

HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnamese authorities have seized nearly a ton of ivory smuggled from Africa after locating nearly five tons in five previous shipments to the same port in the past two months. Ho ...

FILE - In this July 2002 file photo, dust flows from under the truck loaded with logs as it makes its way on a rural road in Preah Vihear province, north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. An environmental ...