Việt Nam News

Thousands of households living near polluted dumping sites in this northern province will soon heave a sigh of relief as they will be closed by the end of this year.

The population explosion and the rapid urbanisation problems have exerted pressures on HCM City’s environment, heard at a seminar on the environmental problems facing HCM City in the period 2011 and 2015.

The southern province of Bình Phước will stop clearing natural forest land for the planting of industrial trees with high economic value, the provincial authority has announced.

Over the past two months, inhabitants of streets like Hàng Bài, Đinh Tiên Hoàng, Lê Thái Tổ and Hàng Khay in Hà Nội have grown used to seeing garbage collectors riding a bicycle with two dustbins on each side.

It is unnecessary to use advanced technology to clean the marine environment in the four central provinces hit by the recent marine pollution as the coral reef ecosystem and seafood resources monitored there have shown signs of recovery.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội’s Hoài Đức District are adopting stern measures against concrete mixing plants operating illegally in the district.

Urbanisation in Việt Nam reached 15 per cent growth – a double increase over past two decades, making a 75 per share of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but it needs a big change in earning ‘green growth’ over the next period.

The environment cannot be allowed to be destroyed for the sake of socio-economic development, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told an online environment protection conference with 63 localities this morning.

In HCM City’s District 7, twigs, leaves and other parts shed by trees are no longer sent to solid waste treatment plants for burial but are instead recycled for compost.

Flooding caused by prolonged rains resulted in a landslide which collapsed three houses early Tuesday morning in Sa Pa District, Lào Cai northern mountainous province, officials said.

The world’s second largest population of the critically endangered Delacour’s langur was recently discovered by Fauna & Flora International (FFI), giving fresh hope for one of the planet’s rarest species.

Việt Nam’s marine environment risks being severely polluted due to insufficient protection measures and indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources, marine experts have said.

Storm Dinamu swept through the northern port city of Hải Phòng to the northern Ninh Bình Province after making landfall in the mainland yesterday, bring in heavy rains to the northern and northern central regions, the National Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre said.

A sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) kept by a family in the northern province of Nam Định was handed over to Việt Nam’s Bear Rescue Centre yesterday.

People in Khánh Hòa Province’s Nha Trang City are protesting against a solid waste system in the provincial General Hospital after it was launched recently, the Voice of Việt Nam reported.

The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands’ Lâm Đồng Province has decided to fine a company more than VNĐ321 million (US$14,400) for violating environment regulations.

The Tiền and Hậu rivers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have become deeper in recent years instead of having silt build-up like in years past, experts have said.

Đà Nẵng City’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment have sent to the police details of alleged toxic waste dumped by an environmental company at the Khánh Sơn dumping site.