Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked concerned departments for a plan to solve the issue of lead contamination and poisoning in Hưng Yên Province’s Đông Mai craft village.

Customs authorities intercepted and inspected a shipment from Diệu Tiến company on October 6 and found hundreds of tusks, suspected to be elephant tusks, weighing two tonnes in total.

Tropical storm Aere, with the highest wind speed of up to 90km per hour in its eye, is gaining more strength and showing unpredictable development after entering the East Sea.

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.