Việt Nam News

Nine leading companies in the consumer goods and packaging industries joined hands to launch the coalition Packaging Recycling Organization Vietnam in HCM City on June 21.

The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has established linkages between 32 biodegradable plastic bag production enterprises and food enterprises.

The Việt Nam Mekong River Commission (VMRC) held the first plenary meeting in 2019 in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang on Wednesday under the chair of the commission’s chairman, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà. 

Residents in Hương Vân Ward, Hương Trà Town in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế have buried bamboo poles in the Bồ River to prevent illegal sand mining.

More than 300 red lory parrots – an endangered bird found only in Indonesia – were suspected to have been imported to Việt Nam illegally earlier this week.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has created many technological achievements to help people to be able to conquer nature, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday (June 18) said at  a conference on evaluation of two-year implementation of government’s resolution on climate resilient and sustainable development of the Mekong Delta.

Police in Bạch Thông District, Bắc Kạn Province have reported that they are rushing to file prosecution documents against people involved in recent incidents of illegal deforestation.

 An endangered sea turtle was found in a fishing net in Mỹ Xuyên District in the southern Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng on Saturday.

Mining on the upper part of the Đắkrông River in central provinces of Thừa Thiên –Huế and Quảng Trị had polluted the river, affecting the lives of tens of thousands of people.

Farmers in Kiên Giang Province’s Gò Quao District are using environmentally-friendly cajuput trees as trellises instead of concrete or wooden pillars to grow pepper plants.

Fish die en mass in the Thạc Gián Lake in Thanh Khê District, Đà Nẵng central city since last Tuesday because the amount of oxygen dissolved in water was so low.

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.