In a victory for turtle conservation efforts, about 421 baby turtles were released to the sea on Chàm Island yesterday.

The flooding triggered by the Doksuri storm that swept through the central region of Việt Nam 10 days ago continued to isolate a community in a remote area of Quảng Bình Province.

The daily lives of some 500 households have been disrupted and 600ha of protective forest lost due to landslides on the nearly 70km seashore of the Mekong Delta’s Kiên Giang Province in recent years, with climate change blamed for the landslides.

The Vietnamese media was lauded for playing an important role in promoting the protection of threatened wildlife, heard a seminar held in Hà Nội on Friday to reveal how media houses can incorporate social responsibility into their work and contribute to combatting wildlife crime.

Việt Nam has the potential to generate up to 40 GW of electricity from solar sources by 2035.

The government conducted an inspection of the local companies in Hà Nam Province to check if they were following the environmental protection laws.

Residents in central Quảng Trị Province’s Triệu An Commune have used steel net to block trucks carrying seafood to a local seafood processing company. The action is a protest against pollution and horrible smells coming from the company’s premises, the online Dân trí newspaper.

As many as 19 of the 43 industrial clusters in capital city of Hà Nội do not have waste water treatment plants, an inspection by the municipal People’s Council has found.