Việt Nam News

Inflammable and explosive materials found in households that earn their living through rubbish collection is endangering the safety of residents, but many underestimate the potential risk.

Phúc Sơn Manganese, Mineral and Mechanics JSC has not reinforced the embankments and dredge sludge as directed.

HCM City’s Customs Office said its officers and anti-trafficking police uncovered over 700 kg of African elephant tusks hidden in wood blocks transported via Cát Lái port yesterday. 

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) today submitted to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc a report on water release by the Hố Hô hydropower plant.

How to improve the quality of natural capital is a challenge and also a target that Viet Nam is aiming for to ensure rapid and sustainable development.

Global populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles may decline by two-thirds by 2020, all within a 50-year period, including iconic species in the Greater Mekong region, such as the Irrawaddy dolphin and tiger, according to the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature’s Living Planet Report 2016

Significant parts of a dyke system in central Quảng Trị Province was eroded by flooding early this month, threating the lives and crop of residents.

The mass fish deaths reported in Linh Đàm Lake in Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai District are not related to its water quality, Hà Nội Environment Protection Branch officials said.

Natural forest area, located in zone 1668 and 1674 in Quảng Sơn Commune of Đắk Glong District in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông, has gradually vanished.

Việt Nam has reached considerable improvement on policy framework to push up  forest and forestryland tenure, acknowledge the authority of forest growers and managers, a Việt Nam Academy of Forest Sciences (VAFS) official said.

A large number of fish have been found dead in Linh Đàm Lake in Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai District, with locals claiming polluted water was the main reason.

Việt Nam will lose nearly 39 per cent of the total area of Cửu Long (Mekong) River delta – the biggest rice granary of the country if the sea level rises 100cm by the end of the century.

Việt Nam has initially outlined five major goals to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Residents who live around Hà Nội’s Văn Quán Lake are complaining that the lake, once a beautiful spot, has become very polluted and is stinking up its surroundings.

The government of HCM City has approved a pilot factory project that will treat 100 kilos of rubbish a day at the Phước Hiệp Rubbish Dump Area. 

Big waves and a rise in sea level have washed away an area of 4,000sq.m of Cửa Đại Beach, 5km from Hội An’s ancient town since last week, after a series tropical low pressures and heavy downpours hit the central coastal region.

Planning for HCM City and its neighbouring provinces must be adjusted to adapt to climate change and ensure sustainable development, speakers said at a meeting on regional planning to 2030 held in Hà Nội last week.

The Forestry Management Department of the southern province of Tây Ninh has received 66 turtles, weighing a total of 50 kilogrammes, seized by Mộc Bài Border Gate customs officers on a coach from Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city.