Việt Nam News

Keeping the Côn Đảo National Park clean and conserving biodiversity is the top priority for its management board.

According to experts at a recent forum on water resource management, Việt Nam is facing a severe water crisis.

The event was part of efforts to end the consumption of illegal wildlife products in Việt Nam.

The plant will cost VNĐ24 billion (US$1.03 million) and is expected to operate by the end of this year.

Hải Dương Province has decided to suspend a project to build a waste treatment and power generation plant in Lương Điền Commune, Cẩm Giàng District, according to the leader of the provincial Department of Planning and Investment.

Deputy environment minister Võ Tuấn Nhân said inspections showed the steelmaker had completed most of the improvement work to its wastewater treatment system demanded by the Government.

Japanese experts proposed a trial cleanup of a section of Tô Lịch River using nano-bioreactor technology, beginning in May and scheduled to finish on July 17. The Hà Nội Sewage and Drainage Company's discharging water from the West Lake into the Tô Lịch River was said to erase the effort.

Wastewater has spilled into a dozen local families' ponds, lakes and fields.

The central province of Nghệ An will spend VNĐ19 billion (US$818,000) on elephant conservation by 2025, a conference heard on Monday.

Like an army, each mature worm can eat a corn bud in a few days then keep munching the whole plant.

Exhibitors will present technologies and innovations in the water and environment industries.

Water shortage in Hội An tourism city, the central Việt Nam, was greatly affecting the lives of thousands of local households and tourists.

Hundreds of local households blocked a section of Hoàng Văn Thái Street earlier this month to prevent dump trucks transporting rubbish into the dump for burial, leaving thousands tonnes of rubbish in the city’s downtown for days.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Hoàng Hiệp has urged localities nationwide to step up the construction and repair of structures designed to prevent erosion along river banks and coastal areas before the rainy season in order to minimise losses caused by natural disasters.

Police in the southern province of Lâm Đồng have caught a group of people who cut pine trees in Lâm Hà District.

Villages across the country have benefited from the country’s economic development, however, many do not measures in place to deal with environmental protection.

Local resident Trần Văn Ba said the farmers used to use water from the commune’s irrigation canal for farming but now, they did not dare.

There must be close ties between scientific researching and policy making to tackle plastic pollution in Viet Nam, environmental campaigners have said.