Việt Nam News

A group of final-year students at Đà Nẵng Technology and Science College successfully manufactured an amphibious trash collector – the first of its kind in Việt Nam – to help clean rubbish from the sea and the beach.

The use of geotubes to protect the Gò Công Đông sea dyke in Tiền Giang Province’s Gò Công Đông District has achieved positive results after two years of implementation, but some of the geotubes have broken, according to local authorities.

The illegal hunting and trade of wild animals has become a complex global business with tens of thousands of animals confiscated by authorities in Việt Nam alone.

Local authorities in Yên Bình District, northern Yên Bái Province, have ordered a waste treatment factory to stop operations due to excessive pollution.

Bạch Thông District rangers in the northern mountainous province of Bắc Kạn have seized a truck carrying precious timber, said Hà Ngọc Bảo, head of the district’s Forest Protection Department.

The adoption of resource efficiency and cleaner production (RECP) options has helped enterprises create new sources of revenue, reduce production costs while mitigating the overall environmental impact of the industrial zones, experts said.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District has published a draft compensation plan for households living around the Nam Sơn dump, the largest waste dump in the city.

The coastal forest area in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu has declined in recent years because of climate change and improper fishing which has damaged protective mangrove trees.  

Đắk Mil Bazan Stone Company in the Central Highland province of Đắk Nông has received a fine of VNĐ108 million (US$4,600) for releasing untreated waste water.

Trung said many dealers came to try and buy the turtle, with some offering up to VNĐ250 million (US$10,750). 

Trần Thị Hồng's bio-tech start-up business in the central city of Đà Nẵng can recycle about 100 tonnes of household organic waste into safe dishwashing liquid for sale each day. 

Illegal dumping of waste and building materials has resumed on the banks of the Hồng (Red) River, infuriating local residents after the problem seemed to have been brought under control.

Hà Nội is planning to take control of illegal sand mining that is threatening to hit agricultural production and the environment in and around the city.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang has recovered its protective forests along coastal areas by enlisting the help of local residents to plant and protect mangrove trees.

The Việt Nam Environment Protection Fund (VEPF) said it has provided soft loans of more than VNĐ2.5 trillion (US$107.5 million) for 294 projects in 54 provinces and cities.

Collective action from the Vietnamese government, the private sector and consumers is essential to combat one of the great environmental challenges facing the world, the excess of plastic waste in oceans and water sources, a United Nations official said yesterday.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) is calling for ideas to create a draft decree that establishes a system of regulations ensuring Việt Nam’s legal timber and wood products qualify for import and export.

Three bears that had been illegally kept in captivity in the central province of Nghệ An have been transferred to a bear protection centre in the northern province of Ninh Bình.