Việt Nam News

The Đà River water plant was found to have flushed thousands of cubic metres of raw wastewater used to cleanse their tanks to the environment, days after it was involved in a polluted water scandal, reported Hà Nội's environment authority.

The capital city will completely eradicate the use of honeycomb charcoal by 2021 as part of its efforts to curb worsening air pollution.

A study carried out by scientists in the US has revealed worrying times are ahead. It claims by 2050, Hồ Chí Minh City will be completely submerged underwater. Three of the city's young residents give Việt Nam News their opinions on the matter.

The HCM City People's Committee has approved the cleanup of five canals full of litter and waste discharged by households living nearby.  

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on November 1 announced a new project promoting urban energy security in Việt Nam at an event held in HCM City.

Fourteen people have been reported injured and one person is missing after Typhoon Matmo churned through the central and south central provinces from Quảng Ngãi to Khánh Hoà on Wednesday.

Bình Điền Wholesale Market in HCM City’s District 8 wants city authorities to help reduce the waste it produces.

The noxious odour and level of mud in the Tô Lịch River and West Lake in Hà Nội have decreased dramatically since nano-bioreactor technology has been applied, according to a representative of the Japan Environment and Trade Promotion Organisation (JETRO).

The Đắk Nông Province People’s Committee in Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) has fined a company VNĐ130 million (US$5,600) for illegal sand mining, vov.vn online newspaper reported on Wednesday.

A tropical low-pressure system has been upgraded to a typhoon. Matmo, the fifth storm this year, was bearing down on the northern part of Trường Sa (Spratly) Archipelago at 7pm yesterday, about 500km east of the provinces of Bình Định and Ninh Thuận.

While other regions are promoting the use of 'green' energy, Asia is still dependent on coal to meet energy demand.

Hồ Ra Ơi, a Vân Kiều ethnic minority man in the central province of Quảng Trị's Đắk Krông District, has his own unique way of protecting the forest.

Việt Nam had been committed to protecting endangered turtles and issuing action plans to boost biodiversity since it became signatory to the Indian Ocean-Southeast Asia (IOSEA) Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding in 2001

Chief of staff of the Hà Nội People’s Committee Vũ Đăng Định said water from the Đà River was safe at a meeting yesterday in the capital.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment plans to make a full inspection of subsidence in the Mekong Delta provinces between 2020 and 2025.

A veteran assumes a new role with the same military precision as when he was in the navy, launching a campaign to classify garbage before it was recycled.

The Vietnam National Space Center and Japan's NEC and Sumitomo Corp late last week signed a contract to develop the LOTUSat-1 satellite that will help predict severe weather and survey the resulting damage.