Scrap steel imports to Việt Nam in the first three months of this year increased sharply compared with last year, up more than 45 per cent in volume and 120 per cent in turnover, which poses serious environmental threat.

 Việt Nam needs to improve the quality of weather forecasting and enhance international co-operation to prepare for natural disasters, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said.

 The central province’s environmental department has ordered three titanium exploitation companies to suspend their operations which have gone on for the last three years despite expired licences.

The El Nino phenomenon is highly likely to occur late this year, causing unpredictable storms during the second half of the rainy season in the autumn months, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said.

Most Vietnamese cities lack the capacity to confront climate change challenges, experts say, calling for greater preparedness efforts.

The many mineral exploitation projects in the central region of Việt Nam, either those legally licensed or unauthorised ones, have made a tangible impact on farmlands, particularly in the central provinces of Bình Định and Quảng Nam.

Thirty two industrial zones were founded in Đồng Nai Province last month and 30 of them are equipped with proper wastewater treatment plants, the provincial people’s committee declared on Thursday.

Various rivers in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc are getting polluted by waste water used by households for daily chores and from trade villages.

The Centre for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis in HCM City and the Sài Gòn River Tunnel Management Centre signed an agreement on Monday to work together to put up air and water quality readings on LED boards around the city.