Việt Nam News

The Minister of Natural Resources and Environment has asked authorities in HCM City and 10 provinces to develop a master plan on effective management of water resources and environmental protection in the Đồng Nai River basin.

Forest plantation and timber trade are among various events that will be held across Việt Nam to highlight co-operation between Việt Nam and Finland and particularly to celebrate 100 years of Finland’s independence, which falls on December 6.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the People’s Committee of Tiền Giang Province in the Mekong Delta to respond to local reports that a section of the Tiền River was filled in to build a nearly 10-ha fruit park in the province’s Cái Bè District.

HCM City has improved environmental protection by completing a legal framework for the purpose and, in recent times, refusing licences for polluting plants and generally tightening pollution management and oversight and improving management of rivers and canals.

Nearly 70 per cent of a newly grown protective forest and a large area of Cửa Đại beach have been washed away by large waves, intense rains and a higher sea level since last year.

Despite the rich biodiversity embodied in a century-old nipa palm forest in provincial Bình Sơn, the province has approved the construction of a 87ha reservoir in providing water for a wood-pulp plant, VNT19, and other industrial projects in Dung Quất Economic Zone in Bình Sơn District.

Four Hà Tĩnh langurs (Trachypithecus hatinhensis), an endangered primate species, have been released into the Kẻ Gỗ Nature Reserve in central Hà Tĩnh Province as part of a re-introduction programme run by the Endangered Primates Rescue Centre (EPRC).

Police in the northern mountain province of Bắc Kạn have detained a truck driver to investigate the pouring of hazardous industrial waste in Chợ Mới’s District’s Yên Đĩnh Commune.

Four houses were swept away and seven others had to evacuate after a riverbank collapsed on Monday evening in Vĩnh Bình Commune in the Mekong Delta Province  of Bến Tre.

Many households in Ninh Giang Township, in the northern province of Hải Dương, have said that their homes and drinking water are heavily polluted.

The disposal of electronic waste in Việt Nam has been rapidly increasing for several years. However, the current recycling technique amounts to preliminary processing only and can hardly produce raw materials for production, experts said.

A move by the northern province of Bắc Giang’s administration to lease 1877ha of forest land to a State-owned forestry company with a track record of violations and mismanagement has evoked strong protests from local residents.

Conflict of interest in the exploitation, use of water resources and the protection of water quality are on the rise and represented in various forms such as conflict between development policy and preserving living environment, during project n implementation and development, exploitation of natural resources and water resources, conflicts of claim for damages triggered by pollution, environmental degradation, an expert said.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has held its first ever Asia Pacific Business Forum in Hà Nội to provide an exclusive occasion for FSC certified forest product suppliers in the region to connect with local and international buyers.

President Trần Đại Quang and Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday inspected flood recovery efforts and visited some of the worst-affected residents.

Some 3,200 children in northern Ninh Bình Province’s Nho Quan District are expected to join this school year’s Valuing Nature in Childhood Programme, which was officially launched on Sunday.

In recent years, the mountainous province of Yen Bai in the north has consistently been among the hardest hit by natural disasters.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has green lighted the target programme to cope with climate change and promote green growth during 2016-20.