Four houses were swept away and seven others had to evacuate after a riverbank collapsed on Monday evening in Vĩnh Bình Commune in the Mekong Delta Province  of Bến Tre.

Many households in Ninh Giang Township, in the northern province of Hải Dương, have said that their homes and drinking water are heavily polluted.

The disposal of electronic waste in Việt Nam has been rapidly increasing for several years. However, the current recycling technique amounts to preliminary processing only and can hardly produce raw materials for production, experts said.

A move by the northern province of Bắc Giang’s administration to lease 1877ha of forest land to a State-owned forestry company with a track record of violations and mismanagement has evoked strong protests from local residents.

Conflict of interest in the exploitation, use of water resources and the protection of water quality are on the rise and represented in various forms such as conflict between development policy and preserving living environment, during project n implementation and development, exploitation of natural resources and water resources, conflicts of claim for damages triggered by pollution, environmental degradation, an expert said.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has held its first ever Asia Pacific Business Forum in Hà Nội to provide an exclusive occasion for FSC certified forest product suppliers in the region to connect with local and international buyers.

President Trần Đại Quang and Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday inspected flood recovery efforts and visited some of the worst-affected residents.

Some 3,200 children in northern Ninh Bình Province’s Nho Quan District are expected to join this school year’s Valuing Nature in Childhood Programme, which was officially launched on Sunday.

In recent years, the mountainous province of Yen Bai in the north has consistently been among the hardest hit by natural disasters.