Renovation of France's Notre-Dame to resume on Monday Work on restoring the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris will gradually resume on Monday after the coronavirus lockdown forced a halt to repairing the gothic landmark nearly destroyed by a fire one year ago, the general heading the project said on Thursday.

No more roadworks after January 10: Hà Nội authorities All construction on roads and pavements must be halted or completed by Friday to ensure traffic safety for the upcoming Tết holiday, Hà Nội’s transportation department announced on Sunday.

HCM City plans to clean up five polluted canals

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

Việt Nam, US co-operate in dioxin cleanup at Biên Hòa airbase An area measuring 37ha at Biên Hòa airbase was handed over to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for a dioxin clean-up project at Biên Hòa Airport in Đồng Nai Province, the most contaminated spot in the country.

Mystery oil spills blot more than 130 Brazilian beaches The source of large blots of oil staining more than 130 beaches in northeastern Brazil remained a mystery Tuesday despite President Jair Bolsonaro's assertions they came from outside the country and were possibly the work of criminals.

Hà Nôi drainage company denies disrupting cleanup effort Japanese experts proposed a trial cleanup of a section of Tô Lịch River using nano-bioreactor technology, beginning in May and scheduled to finish on July 17. The Hà Nội Sewage and Drainage Company's discharging water from the West Lake into the Tô Lịch River was said to erase the effort.

Environmental protection cannot be a passing trend

Despite the many photos, posts and videos that were shared calling for a sustainable lifestyle there are distances between awareness, action and habit.

Will Japanese technology keep Tô Lịch River clean in the long term?

The notoriously polluted Tô Lịch River is undergoing an experimental treatment with Japanese technology that promised to restore purity and life-giving quality to the flow that has for long considered ‘a dead river’ by many citizens in Hà Nội.

Hashtag campaigns: Do they have a realistic impact? Do unique hashtag campaigns or challenges, which take place across many social media platforms, result in something good or bad for society?

Billions of dollars needed to clear all bombs, mines left from wars2

Việt Nam wants to tackle the consequences left over from years of war in the next few decades, a Government official said on Tuesday.