Việt Nam News

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.

Smoke from charcoal furnaces is threatening the environment around Cư M’gar District in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Lắk, affecting residents’ health.

Two pig farms in the central province of Hà Tĩnh’s Can Lộc District have been asked to halt operations after they were found to be polluting the area’s reservoir water.

For over a month, multiple manufacturers based in the Tân Hồng industrial cluster in Bình Giang District of the northern province of Hải Dương have discharged untreated wastewater into irrigation canals, causing severe pollution in the section of Bắc Hưng Hải irrigation system that passes through the region.

More than 1,000 volunteers from the US Embassy, associations, organisations and universities, joined hands to pick up garbage in Thống Nhất Park Saturday morning to mark Earth Day here.

Deputy PM Trịnh Đình Dũng has ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to urgently review and issue a list of industries that pose a high risk of polluting the environment.

Garbage and wastewater pollution from factories is threatening the Lam River and its arms in the central province of Nghệ An.

HCM City has been facing a shortage of garbage collection stations, where rubbish would be collected, sorted into categories for disposal, and transported to dumping sites or treatment zones. It has to take use of empty pavements on public areas to do the job.

Rescued bears in Việt Nam will have more living space with the inauguration of two houses with two semi-natural enclosures at Tam Đảo National Park bear reserve in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc.

A rare sea turtle with serious wounds was rescued by the Xuân Thủy National Park.

Water from the Nhiêu Lộc-Thị Nghè Canal has been drawn out to the Sài Gòn River to reduce fish deaths, HCM City’s Anti-flood Centre said.

Scrap steel imports to Việt Nam in the first three months of this year increased sharply compared with last year, up more than 45 per cent in volume and 120 per cent in turnover, which poses serious environmental threat.

 Việt Nam needs to improve the quality of weather forecasting and enhance international co-operation to prepare for natural disasters, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said.

 The central province’s environmental department has ordered three titanium exploitation companies to suspend their operations which have gone on for the last three years despite expired licences.