The latest report by the Nhân Cơ aluminum manufacturer’s investor on an alkali leakage incident late last month said that it had not affected human health or the environment.

Animals Asia said it has successfully rescued a moon bear that had been kept in a cage for more than 10 years.

Yesterday’s message from the Hà Nội City’s Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention requested all authorities of districts and townships, and relevant departments to prepare for the arrival of Typhoon Nida, the second storm this year in Việt Nam.  

Poor levels of dissolved oxygen (DO) in water was blamed as the main reason for the mass fish deaths at Đà Nẵng’s 29-3 Lake – one of the biggest lakes in the park of the same name.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) announced yesterday that Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Company would have to pay an administrative fine for its violations on environmental protection regulations, specifically for not using qualified waste treatment facilities to dispose of hazardous waste.

Just two kilometres from the hustle and luxuries of Hà Nội’s town centre, the life of families living in slums along the Red River has been the same for years: poor, partly submerged, dark at night.

Two months ago, someone decided to bring some light to this place.

A working group led by Phan Xuân Dũng, chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Committee on Science, Technology and Environment has arrived in central Hà Tĩnh Province to supervise the implementation of the law on environmental protection on the Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Company.

Tropical storm Nida, which featured wind speeds up to 135km per hour yesterday morning, is very close to the East Sea.

Conservationists and scientists have strongly called on the Government to stop allowing organisations and individuals commercially farming and trading endangered species in Việt Nam.