Mass fish deaths have been reported along the shore in Kiên Lương District and Hà Tiên Town in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang since Sunday.

Waste must be treated more effectively with advanced technology and categorised prior to treatment, city officials said at a meeting held in HCM City yesterday.

Representatives of Vietnamese and Chinese agriculture ministries have participated in a fish releasing event to boost sustainable development of fisheries in the Gulf of Tonkin. 

The HCM City People’s Committee has told the Steering Centre of the Urban Flood Control Programme to go ahead and draw up plans to build a reservoir in the outlying district of Củ Chi to prevent flooding there.

Construction on a VNĐ500 billion (US$22 million) flood-prevention project in HCM City’s District 7 is expected to start in the next quarter, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) and Cúc Phương National Park have successfully released 53 Java pangolins (Manis javanica) to the wild.

Many households in the central province of Quảng Bình plant local timbers in the forest instead of other kinds of trees such as cajuputs, and the way bring them billions of đồng and also help them protect local environment as well as maintain different kinds of local valuable trees.

Preserving biodiversity in Việt Nam was the main topic of discussion at a workshop yesterday in Hà Nội.

Colossal import of scrap steel was silently turning Việt Nam into an industrial landfill of the world, raising alarms on the environmental risks coming with the waste.