Large areas of sea in the central province of Hà Tĩnh are being polluted by untreated waste from local shrimp farming activities.

Cần Thơ seeks to cooperate with Australia in many fields, especially in sustainable energy and agriculture, said the vice chairman of Cần Thơ City’s People’s Committee at a meeting with Australian Consul General last weekend in Cần Thơ.

The northern province’s authorities are urging local police to expedite their investigation into a waste pond failure incident a week ago at a fertiliser factory in the province.

Heavy rain has been blamed for a breach at a gypsum sludge reservoir in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai on September 7.

Households who were badly affected by waste fertiliser pond breakage in Bảo Thắng District of the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai were handed over financial assistance, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

The waste pond breakage that discharged over 45,000cu.m of mud and untreated chemical-filled wastewater in Bảo Thắng District of northern mountainous Lào Cai Province last week will severely affect eco-system of surrounding areas. The recovery period will take time and be challenging, said Dr Trần Thế Loãn, former deputy head of Environmental Management Department of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

A waste pond connected to a DAP fertiliser factory in the northern province was compromised late last week and over 45,000 cu.m of mud and untreated chemical-filled wastewater flooded nearby neighbourhoods following torrential rain.

The construction of an embankment to prevent landslide along Hội Phú Spring in Pleiku City in the Central Highlands Province of Gia Lai has damaged houses and polluted the local environment over the last two years, Voice of Vietnam reported.

The central city of Đà Nẵng was awarded the title National Capital of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge 2018 programme in a ceremony on Friday, making it the only city in Việt Nam to join a list of 21 cities around the world for the final round of the global award.