HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam will ban fossil-fuel motorcycles and mopeds in the heart of the capital, Hanoi, starting July 2026, as part of a nationwide effort to curb air pollution, state media ...

William Gray packed up bag and baggage and moved out because he could no longer stand Hanoi’s “thick exhaust fumes and burning plastic stench.” "This was a difficult decision after eight years in the ...

Vietnam is racing to electrify its motorbike market, one of the largest in Southeast Asia with 77 million bikes on the road.

A woman covers her face as she rides a motorbike past a burning garbage dump on the side of the road in Hanoi - Copyright AFP Eyad BABA A woman covers her face as she ...

In Vietnam's heavily polluted capital Hanoi, teenage taxi driver Phung Khac Trung rides his electric motorbike through streets jammed with two-wheelers belching toxic fumes. Trung, 19, is one of a ...

Toxic smoke billows from a burning mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen's farm in Hanoi, a city battling an alarming air pollution surge that the communist government appears in no hurry ...