Việt Nam News

At least three seals have been seen in the sea off the central Bình Thuận Province’s Tuy Phong District, surprising both local people and tourists in the past two weeks.

HCM City is cracking down on pollution, with the People’s Committee spelling out measures for waste control, after voters expressed anguish about the defiling of the Sài Gòn River and the People’s Council calling for heeding the lessons of Formosa.

Families living near the Formosa Industrial Park (IP) in Đồng Nai Province have been forced to drill wells for water and breathe polluted air for years because of smoke emissions and untreated waste water discharged from the IP, local media have reported.

The transportation sector must work closely with law enforcement agencies to bolster the fight against wildlife crime and reduce demand for wildlife consumption, experts said at a two-day workshop that ended on Friday in HCM City.

At least four people died, one is missing and three were injured after torrential rains swept through the northern and north-central regions over the past few days, according to the latest report from the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Police in southern Bình Phước Province have fined an agricultural business VNĐ290 million ($13,050) for discharging untreated waste water into Sài Gòn River.

Police in Lâm Đồng Province have detained and prosecuted five people following a clash that resulted in the death of a forest ranger a week ago.

Data on forest and forest land will be collected by an electronic forest information system for decision making or statistical purposes and designing a strategy or plan for forest development. 

Đặng Vũ Minh,15, and Đào Nhật Minh, two secondary school students in Hà Nội, have won a gold medal for their research on the red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus).

Fourteen localities in the north and central region have been put on high alert till Sunday, over torrential rain of up to 250mm and flash floods.

The Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Programme (CPCP), a collaboration between Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) and Cúc Phương National Park, released 20 endangered Sunda Pangolins to a safe and undisclosed location in Việt Nam on Wednesday.

HCM City plans to reduce burying of solid wastes and improve waste treatment technologies by 2030, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has said.

The agriculture sector of the central Quảng Trị Province yesterday confirmed deforestation of a protected forest in Vĩnh Linh District.

Any organisation or individual exploiting or using water for hydropower projects might have to pay for the right to exploit the nation’s water resources, as per a decree being drafted.

A market located at the junction of highways 62 and N2 in Thạnh Hóa Towship of the southern province of Long An has long been known as a market for wild birds.

Nông Sơn District in the central province of Quảng Nam plans to set up an elephant conservation centre to protect the remaining small wild population in the province as well as other endangered species, conservationists said.

The People’s Police Academy has launched the Vietnamese version of a manual by an international counter-trafficking organisation to help officials fight the black market trade in endangered wild animals.

More than VNĐ112 trillion (US$5.02 billion) will be spent to improve flood prevention measures and dyke systems along the Hồng (Red) river and Thái Bình River in northern Việt Nam, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) announced on Thursday.