Việt Nam News

The southern province of Bình Thuận plans to invest VNĐ27 billion (around US$1.2 million) to build sea dikes in landslide-hit areas.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has asked 38 cities and provinces nationwide to promptly revise the operation of reservoirs to ensure water sources for low-lying areas in this dry season, especially in vulnerable areas such as the central region, the Central Highlands and the Mekong Delta region already hit by drought last year.

The People’s Committee of the Đồng Tháp has approved a VNĐ664 billion ($29.4 million) subproject to improve the drainage capacity and develop sustainable livelihoods for the Đồng Tháp Mười wetland.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched a regional project to enhance the resilience of wetlands in Lower Mekong countries on the occasion of World Wetlands Day (February 2).

Heavy rains in the southern region that began on Thursday are expected to continue in HCM City and neighbouring provinces over the next few days, according to the Southern Regional Hydro-meteorological Centre.

A forest fire broke out on Monday in Thủy Nguyên District’s Môtt Mountain in Hải Phòng City, burning down at least three hectares of eucalyptus trees.

Reuse Everything Institute Inc of Finland has agreed to fund a biodiversity research project in the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve that will contribute to protecting the endangered red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus).

Officials are deeply concerned about the “serious degradation” of water quality in the Đồng Nai River basin.

A meeting was held in Hà Nội yesterday to report on the implementation of the Việt Nam National Green Growth Strategy in the 2012-16 period. 

Twelve walls in Nguyễn Thái Bình ward of District 1, HCM City, are being covered with rhino-themed graffiti to call for an end to the use of rhino horn in Việt Nam.

Only around 100 wild elephants, and an additional 60 in captivity, remain in Việt Nam, with most living in Đắk Lắk, Đồng Nai and Nghệ An provinces, a conference on elephant conservation heard on Wednesday.

A total of 47 frozen bodies of monkeys and mustelids were found at the home of a resident in central Hà Tĩnh Province yesterday.

Projects which fail to meet waste treatment requirements would be rejected, and completed projects would only be put into operation when their treatment of waste water treatment met environmental standards, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has stressed.

Sea water and waste water samples related to mass clam deaths in central Thanh Hóa Province have failed to meet environment criteria, said Lê Văn Bình, head of the Environmental Protection Branch under the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment, on Sunday.

Police in the southern province of Đồng Nai’s Biên Hòa City have stopped three trucks carrying some five tonnes of foul-smelling animal organs towards the Cái River.

The central district Điện Bàn in co-operation with the Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) will start conservation of bamboo project at local in 2017-25.

Police in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Kỳ Thọ Commune discovered 12 dead langurs wrapped in newspapers on a passenger bus that was pulled over for a regular check in Kỳ Anh District.

Hà Nội Urban Environment One Member Co yesterday received 12 German-made street sweepers worth more than VND20 billion (US$878,000) to help clean up the streets for the New Year.