Việt Nam News

Management of the Mường Phăng forest had faced a number of difficulties, said Nguyễn Việt Cường, director of the Mường Phăng Forest and Environment Management Board.

Nearly 16ha of natural forests in Canh Thuận Commune, Vân Canh District, Bình Định Province, were recently chopped down, according to a report of the provincial forest protection branch.

Việt Nam Maritime Administration (Vinamarine) has submited a request to Bình Định Province People’s Commitee for a licence to dump 439,000cu.m of waste mud into Quy Nhơn City’s sea.

The Việt Nam Environment Administration under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has publicised a national hotline to receive public reports about environmental issues.

Farmers in central Quảng Bình Province are facing a dilemma as their paddy fields have been affected by salty water following the typhoon Doksuri last September.

HCM City People's Committee Chairman, Nguyễn Thanh Phong, has asked the police investigation office to investigate and prosecute illegal sand mining cases in the Cần Giờ sea area.

Residents in the Mekong Delta Province of Tiền Giang are worried that the construction of a fruit park will alter the currents of the Tiền and Cái Bè Rivers and intensify landslides on Cai Lậy District’s Tân Phong Islet.

An areca nut processing plant in Nam Đông District’s Hương Hoà Commnue has been causing pollution for months but the local authority has not imposed any effective sanctions.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Sóc Trăng aims to preserve 350 long-tailed macaques monkeys living in a mangrove forest and develop eco-tourism as part of its tourism development plan by 2020.

The only lake that provides water to the southernmost province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu is at risk of getting polluted because of a waste treatment plant.

The island of Tam Hải off the coast of Quảng Nam, has been struggling against a flood of household garbage treatment following the failure of a rubbish-fired furnace on the island.

Hà Nội plans to install an additional 70 air monitoring stations to improve air quality, according to the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Fish farmers in central Quảng Ngãi Province are concerned about the thousands of dead fish, which are polluting a local lake.

The Mekong Delta province of Hậu Giang has been urged to establish a community-based monitoring mechanism to evaluate papermaker Lee & Man Vietnam Ltd.’s environmental treatment. 

Nguyễn Thu Hà, 24, a tourist from Hà Nội, is so impressed when going to the Bản Giốc Waterfall in Trùng Khánh District, in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bằng, not only because of its beauty, but also the clean and tidy surrounding environment.

Phú Quốc island in the southern province of Kiên Giang – one among the most popular tourist destinations in Việt Nam – is being threatened by environmental pollution due to the “flooding” of rubbish, Lao động (Labour) newspaper reported.

Hà Nội will seek funds to relocate hundreds of households living in two communes of Hà Nội’s Chương Mỹ District, the chairman of Hà Nội People's Committee said.

At least 54 people died, 31 others were injured and 39 are missing due to heavy rains and floods triggered by a tropical depression hitting northern and central localities in recent days, according to National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention.