The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in collaboration with its environmental protection partners has launched a Gender Analysis Toolkit (GAT) to improve gender integration and mainstreaming in coastal resource management programmes in South and Southeast Asia.

The HCM City People’s Committee has announced an action plan in 2016-20 to reduce environmental pollution.

A photo by Lương Thanh Hải of Việt Nam’s meteorological and hydrological agency has won first prize at a photo competition of the Typhoon Committee (TC).

The People’s Committee of southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province has approved in principle a project to dredge Bến Đình drainage channel, a key channel in the city of Vũng Tàu which is seriously polluted by wastewater and domestic waste.

MD Solid Waste Treatment Plant in central Quảng Ngãi Province has failed to meet emission standards, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà has said.

Việt Nam is seeking consensus from members of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, on tightening the protection of some endangered species in the country.

Sugarcane farmers in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Gia Lai had lost of hundreds of billions of đồng due to a prolonged severe drought in the region.

The southern coastal province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu has approved Côn Đảo District’s proposal to ship domestic solid waste from the island to a landfill on the mainland.

Residents of the area around the dumping ground in Vĩnh Long Commune, Vĩnh Linh District, the central province of Quảng Trị have blocked garbage trucks attempting to carry waste to the dump.