Việt Nam News

Waste must be treated more effectively with advanced technology and categorised prior to treatment, city officials said at a meeting held in HCM City yesterday.

Representatives of Vietnamese and Chinese agriculture ministries have participated in a fish releasing event to boost sustainable development of fisheries in the Gulf of Tonkin. 

The HCM City People’s Committee has told the Steering Centre of the Urban Flood Control Programme to go ahead and draw up plans to build a reservoir in the outlying district of Củ Chi to prevent flooding there.

Construction on a VNĐ500 billion (US$22 million) flood-prevention project in HCM City’s District 7 is expected to start in the next quarter, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) and Cúc Phương National Park have successfully released 53 Java pangolins (Manis javanica) to the wild.

Many households in the central province of Quảng Bình plant local timbers in the forest instead of other kinds of trees such as cajuputs, and the way bring them billions of đồng and also help them protect local environment as well as maintain different kinds of local valuable trees.

Preserving biodiversity in Việt Nam was the main topic of discussion at a workshop yesterday in Hà Nội.

Colossal import of scrap steel was silently turning Việt Nam into an industrial landfill of the world, raising alarms on the environmental risks coming with the waste.

The Hà Nội People’s Court yesterday sentenced Phạm Văn Luật, a resident in Hải Phòng City, to 12 years in prison for illegally transporting ivory, a type of banned goods, under Clause 1, Article 155 of the Penal Code. 

Poor planning and management of sand mining has led to a stunning but unsurprising warning: Việt Nam is very likely to run out of sand in less than 15 years.

The People’s Committee of central Thanh Hóa Province has allowed Nghi Sơn refinery and petrochemical limited liability company to release waste water into the sea, provided it meets environmental protection requirements.

Climate change has a huge impact on HCM City’s water resources, the head of its public water utility has warned.

El Nino, which is forecast to last until the end of 2017, will cause drought and salinity intrusion in many areas of the country during the dry season, said Lê Thanh Hải, Deputy General Director of the National Hydro-Meteorological Centre on Wednesday.

Standard on emission concentration in Việt Nam is lower than international standard. Pollutants in Việt Nam, therefore, are allowed to be emitted more than in other countries, said Ngụy Thị Khanh, Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) executive director in Hà Nội in a panel discussion on air quality organised by US Embassy on Wednesday.

The An Giang Province People’s Committee has asked the Government for VNĐ123 billion (US$5.4 million) worth of emergency aid to deal with the aftermath of the severe landslide along the Vàm Nao River two weeks ago.

On March 7, 2017, Viet Nam News published an article titled “Mekong water diplomacy vital”. The article quoted several statements by Dr Lê Anh Tuấn, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Climate Change at Cần Thơ University.

A year after it caused mass fish deaths by discharging untreated waste directly into the sea, an inspection has found Formosa having addressed 52 of 53 environmental violations.

Construction of a reservoir to collect water leaking from the Hòn Rọ dumping site in the central Khánh Hoà Province’s Ninh Hoà Commune must be completed soon, the People’s Committee has said.