Bình Thuận Province has reaped enormous economic benefits from titanium mining, but the industry has also damaged the environment badly, degraded the lives of local residents.

Water governance in APEC economies, climate change, food security and best practices in agriculture are among the topics to be discussed at the first APEC Water Resources Authorities Meeting for Food Security that opens today in Cần Thơ.

Five o’ clock in the afternoon is the time when the Giá Rai General Hospital in the southern province of Bạc Liêu starts to get crowded, not only with inpatients but also visitors who come here to take a stroll.

“Dirty” and “stinky” are the two words most used to describe the Thọ Quang Port in the central Đà Nẵng City over the last decade.

A red-shanked douc langur (pygathrix nemaeus) was handed over to the Cúc Phương National Park in the northern province of Ninh Bình by forest rangers in Phú Lộc district in central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế on Monday.

The People's Committee of Đồng Tháp Province has directed relevant agencies and district authorities to ensure farming of white-leg shrimp in freshwater zones is not expanded since the saltwater discharged by these farms affect water bodies and crops.

Residents of Vân Cù Village in the central province city of Huế have been making rice noodles for some 400 years. But while their livelihoods fared well, their health did not.

Two more construction projects in coastal Sơn Trà and Ngũ Hành Sơn districts of Đà Nẵng have been found discharging untreated waste water into the city’s household sewage system.

The central province plans to restore 80ha forest and habitat for a herd of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) living in Đồng Cổ Village of Tam Mỹ Tây Commune.