Việt Nam News

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.

The central province plans to allocate a fund of VNĐ100 billion (US$4.4 million) to restore a 100ha forest as a safe habitat for a herd of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) living in Đồng Cổ Village, Tam Mỹ Tây Commune of Núi Thành district in 2019-28.

Fewer new pollution hotspots have been found in Việt Nam in the past few years, but vigilance is needed to control potential risks, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Việt Nam Environment Administration has said.

Water in the Nhuệ and Đáy rivers in the northern province of Hà Nam is heavily polluted, according to the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Việt Nam is one of Asia’s five worst polluters of ocean plastic waste, according to international organisations. With 13 million tonnes of waste released to the ocean every year, the country ranks 17^th in the world for ocean plastic waste pollution.

Forestry agencies in upland areas across the country have been told to closely monitor the risk of fires as risks reach critical levels.

With the development potential of renewable energy, coupled with the Government’s preferential policies, Việt Nam has drawn the attention of both domestic and foreign investors in the clean energy field, which is expected to grow quickly in the coming years.

HCM City targets reducing the volume of plastic bags used at supermarkets and business centres by 65 per cent, and at traditional markets by 50 per cent compared with 2010.

Authorities in the Mekong Delta are bracing for the dry season and the resultant saltwater intrusion from the sea in rivers.

The management board of the Cham Islands Marine Protected Area has released a rare sea turtle that was accidentally caught by a local fisherman back into its natural habitat.

A number of provinces across the country including Lai Châu, Nghệ An and Tây Ninh are taking precautions to prevent forest fires as the dry season begins.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has agreed in principle to the organisation of a forum on sustainable and climate-resilient development of the Mekong Delta in October 2019.

Many hundred-year old trees in Nà Pen Forest in the northern province of Điện Biên have been illegally logged, putting the future of the old forest at risk, the Vietnam News Agency reported.