Việt Nam News

Many Hanoians seem unaware of the high air pollution in their city despite the warnings of environmentalists and statistics from the US Embassy’s air quality monitoring station in Láng Hạ Street that show the air quality index remaining at unhealthy levels (between 151–200 units) over the past week.

The Chàm Island, 20km off the coast of Hội An, will launch its garbage treatment furnace with a capacity of three tonnes every day from this weekend.

Many wildlife species living in the Lower U Minh National Park in the southern province of Cà Mau have been rediscovered recently by the Park’s management board

The Government has urged Central Highlands’ authorities to take serious measures to cope with the severe drought, which could lead to a shortage of food and affect people’s health.

Pollution levels are adversely affecting local residents’ health and the long-term economic development of a traditional handicraft village located about 70km from Hà Nội, a senior official said.

Residents in Tân Lập Commune in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La’s Mộc Châu District said while growing and processing arrowroot helped improve the lives of local residents, the rudimentary ways of processing have been killing local water sources.

The Government should offer policy support for rice farmers in chronically drought-stricken areas, enabling them to switch to other crops, a conference to review the 2015-16 winter-spring crop in the south-central and Central Highlands provinces heard.

Laos is releasing water from its dams to the Mekong River to help Việt Nam cope with drought and salt intrusion in the Mekong Delta, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

More than 7,000 cobia fish, kept in floating cages in Vĩnh Tân Commune in the central Bình Thuận Province’s Tuy Phong District, had died as of March 21.

World Health Organisation warns that a quarter of all global deaths annually are related to pollution, and the death rate is increasing

China has decided to double the release of water from its Jinghong reservoir on the Mekong River to help Việt Nam mitigate the impact of a severe drought in the Mekong Delta provinces.

Tây Nguyên, south-central provinces to plant fewer crops as drought continues

Drought in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region has seriously affected farming and the lives of local residents in the region.

The Nature Conservation Zone in the southern province of Đồng Nai confirmed the death of another bull today.

Seven hundred households in Nam Du Archipelago of Kiên Hải District in southern Kiên Giang Province are facing serious shortage of fresh water, reported online newspaper Vietnamplus. The islanders are suffering at a peak time of the dry season which causes severe shortage of fresh water affecting people’s lives and production.

The transport, loading and unloading of limestone in Hạ Long Bay will be banned starting July 1 under the latest directive from the People’s Committee of northeastern Quảng Ninh Province.

Scientists of Technology University under Việt Nam National University have successfully developed an air pollution management system using satellite photos.

More than 13,000 farming households in the Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh are suffering damage from the prolonged drought and saltwater infiltration, said an official from the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.