More than 600 illegal coal-fired kilns in southern Hậu Giang Province’s Phú Tân Commune have been discharging smoke to the environment, affecting the health of local residents and seriously reducing the productivity of their fruit trees.

The traffic department in Hà Nội’s Đông Anh District set up an inspection team yesterday to crack down on trucks overloaded with construction materials and toxic waste mud.

Despite a number of measures to prevent violations in forest protection and development law, there still remain four hot spots of deforestation in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông.

Engaging public participation in an environmental impact assessment is advised to offer more chances to ethnic minority groups and underprivileged people to raise their voices, heard from a consultation workshop held yesterday in Hà Nội.

A tropical storm, internationally named Aere, is visible near the East Sea with strongest winds of 75km per hour in its eye.

Sixty-one wild Sunda pangolins ((Manis javanica) were handed over to Save Việt Nam’s Wildlife by Thái Bình Province’s Police Department yesterday afternoon.

Sewage ditches containing black smelly wastewater, running from Sầm Sơn Township’s drainage system to the beach, are causing serious pollution, resulting in a negative effect on tourism in the area.

Politburo member and Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình yesterday sent a letter complimenting the General Department of Việt Nam Customs for discovering the trans-border trafficking of elephant tusks.

 Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday asked Hà Nội People's Committee to urgently handle the West Lake's mass fish die-off, of which the fish losses already reached up to 60 tonnes and counting.