Việt Nam News

HCM City is creating favourable conditions for investors to reuse and recycle garbage to produce electricity, according to Nguyễn Thành Phong, Chairman of the city People’s Committee.

 Đá Đen reservoir, which supplies water to 90 per cent of the people in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province, is at risk of being severely polluted.

The northern mountainous province of Sơn La should mobilise different resources and overcome its current difficulties to enhance biodiversity protection, said an environment official.

Việt Nam has huge potentials in terms of geography and wind power resources to generate electricity, experts have said.

 Some 40 black shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nigripes), divided into three herds, have been found living on Chứa Chan Mountain in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Xuân Lộc District.

Hà Nội’s iconic Hoàn Kiếm Lake has been severely polluted through the years and must be cleaned to save the threatened living creatures there, experts said.

Sixty-eight different wild animals were released on Thursday on the islands in Bái Tử Long National Park in the northern Quảng Ninh Province’s Vân Đồn District.

Polluted water may be a reason for the mass fish deaths in Đầm Dơi District in southernmost Cà Mau Province, the province’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment said on Wednesday.

Đà Nẵng has approved a solid garbage treatment project to ease pollution at Non Nước Stone Sculpture Village in Ngũ Hành Sơn District with a total investment of VNĐ10 billion (US$444,000).

A ministrial inspection team has asked the Đắk Nông Aluminum Company to immediately review its technology after its factory released aluminum powder into the air in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông.

The HCM City People’s Committee on Monday asked Nhà Bè district authorities to take urgent measures to prevent landslides on the left bank of the Giồng Canal – Kinh Lộ River in Hiệp Phước Commune.

The investor of Núi Cốc Lake Dam in the northern province of Thái Nguyên was told yesterday to speed up work of repairing the facility.

Authorities in Central Highlands' Đắk Nông Province have asked the Đắk Nông Aluminum Company to ensure that aluminum powder is not released into the environment.

Experts from the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) have assisted the Việt Nam Environment Administration (VEA) in building circulars on water environment management in river basins.

Farmers in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province are protesting a slaughter project proposed to be built their neighborhood due to concerns about pollution and the loss of farming land.

The portion of Ba Bò Canal that runs through Bình Dương Province has dramatically changed after its clean-up, but not in HCM City, and authorities need to keep a close eye on it if they do not want it sullied again.

Việt Nam plans to develop a low-carbon economy and include climate-change resistance work in its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the Paris climate accords.

The Mekong Delta, home to some 18 million inhabitants, is plagued by severe riverbank erosion, which has been blamed on climate change and human factors.