Việt Nam News

Like an army, each mature worm can eat a corn bud in a few days then keep munching the whole plant.

Exhibitors will present technologies and innovations in the water and environment industries.

Water shortage in Hội An tourism city, the central Việt Nam, was greatly affecting the lives of thousands of local households and tourists.

Hundreds of local households blocked a section of Hoàng Văn Thái Street earlier this month to prevent dump trucks transporting rubbish into the dump for burial, leaving thousands tonnes of rubbish in the city’s downtown for days.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Hoàng Hiệp has urged localities nationwide to step up the construction and repair of structures designed to prevent erosion along river banks and coastal areas before the rainy season in order to minimise losses caused by natural disasters.

Police in the southern province of Lâm Đồng have caught a group of people who cut pine trees in Lâm Hà District.

Villages across the country have benefited from the country’s economic development, however, many do not measures in place to deal with environmental protection.

Local resident Trần Văn Ba said the farmers used to use water from the commune’s irrigation canal for farming but now, they did not dare.

There must be close ties between scientific researching and policy making to tackle plastic pollution in Viet Nam, environmental campaigners have said.

Improved linkages with international organisations are needed to hasten the progress of HCM City's climate-adaptation action programmes, experts said at a workshop held in HCM City on July 16.

An air quality monitoring system placed at the Embassy of France in Hà Nội – 57 Trần Hưng Đạo Street – started operation on Tuesday, raising the number of France-funded air quality monitoring systems in Hà Nội to 11.

Baby turtles (Cheloniidae) hatched from eggs that had been moved to a beach in the Chàm Islands' Marine Protected Area (MPA) were released into the ocean last weekend by the MPA's management board.

Rapid urbanisation is reducing green areas in HCM City, with parks coming under increasing threat from shops, cafes, office blocks and parking lots.

Urban heat islands in HCM City and other large cities in Việt Nam are causing heat waves with some of the highest recorded temperatures ever in the country, affecting public health.

Prolonged hot weather in the central region has caused low water levels in reservoirs and dams, seriously affecting agricultural production and the daily lives of local residents.

The People’s Committee of central Quảng Ngãi Province has instructed North Investment and Development Construction JSC – the investor of the Nghĩa Kỳ waste treatment plant – to complete construction of the plant and put it into operation before September 30.

The Chàm Islands’ Marine Protected Area (MPA) management board, in co-operation with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has launched a new garbage sorting programme as part of efforts to reduce plastic waste in Việt Nam.

More than VNĐ182 billion ($7.8 million) was paid to 186 families in Nam Sơn Commune on Tuesday while 39 households in Hồng Kỳ Communce will receive the money on Thursday.