The Government has announced how compensation will be paid to people affected by the toxic discharge by a steel plant owned by Taiwanese firm Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Corporation that caused Việt Nam’s biggest ever environmental disaster along the central coast.

Waterway transport has been affected in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta since many rivers and canals have not been regularly dredged and suffer from illegal encroachment.

Dr Đào Thị Nga, co-founder and director of the Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development (WARECOD), a Vietnamese non-governmental organisation, was among 15 Biodiversity “Hotspot Heroes” to be honoured on September 4 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình yesterday asked the Hà Nội People’s Committee to verify information according to which nearly 5,000 people risked having their homes destroyed.

Thanks to an efficient new IT system for managing check-ups covered by health insurance, people in the northern province of Thái Nguyên do not need to queue up at hospitals from 3am like in the past.

Health experts discussed ways to tackle barriers and find solutions to provide social health insurance (SHI) to people living with HIV (PLHIV) at a workshop today in HCM City. 

Education for Nature-Việt Nam (ENV) yesterday said it had rescued six lorises, whose scientific name is Lorisidae, three days after they were advertised for sale on line by wild animal traffickers.

Việt Nam, Laos and Thailand are considering introducing bus routes to offer the public better transport connectivity between the three countries.

Construction of a modern archive that will cost VNĐ490 billion (US$2.2 million) in the first phase began in HCM City’s Bình Tân District on Sunday.