Garbage and wastewater pollution from factories is threatening the Lam River and its arms in the central province of Nghệ An.

Rescued bears in Việt Nam will have more living space with the inauguration of two houses with two semi-natural enclosures at Tam Đảo National Park bear reserve in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc.

HCM City has been facing a shortage of garbage collection stations, where rubbish would be collected, sorted into categories for disposal, and transported to dumping sites or treatment zones. It has to take use of empty pavements on public areas to do the job.

A rare sea turtle with serious wounds was rescued by the Xuân Thủy National Park.

Water from the Nhiêu Lộc-Thị Nghè Canal has been drawn out to the Sài Gòn River to reduce fish deaths, HCM City’s Anti-flood Centre said.

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.