Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the People’s Committee of Tiền Giang Province in the Mekong Delta to respond to local reports that a section of the Tiền River was filled in to build a nearly 10-ha fruit park in the province’s Cái Bè District.

HCM City has improved environmental protection by completing a legal framework for the purpose and, in recent times, refusing licences for polluting plants and generally tightening pollution management and oversight and improving management of rivers and canals.

Nearly 70 per cent of a newly grown protective forest and a large area of Cửa Đại beach have been washed away by large waves, intense rains and a higher sea level since last year.

Despite the rich biodiversity embodied in a century-old nipa palm forest in provincial Bình Sơn, the province has approved the construction of a 87ha reservoir in providing water for a wood-pulp plant, VNT19, and other industrial projects in Dung Quất Economic Zone in Bình Sơn District.

Four Hà Tĩnh langurs (Trachypithecus hatinhensis), an endangered primate species, have been released into the Kẻ Gỗ Nature Reserve in central Hà Tĩnh Province as part of a re-introduction programme run by the Endangered Primates Rescue Centre (EPRC).

Police in the northern mountain province of Bắc Kạn have detained a truck driver to investigate the pouring of hazardous industrial waste in Chợ Mới’s District’s Yên Đĩnh Commune.

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.