Environment

Officials of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho had a working session with representatives from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on December 9 to discuss a project to reduce domestic waste in Can Tho in the coming time.

U Minh Thuong National Park in Kien Giang Province still has its own unique beauty and is home to thousands of animals.

First phase of metro city project in HCMC to be completed by Q3 2021.

Hanoi's Department of Natural Resources and Environment has outlined a plan to reduce air pollution in 2020.

A strange black strip of water has raised public concerns about marine pollution at Khe Hai Beach in Quang Ngai Province.

Four Paws Organisation has rescued an Asiatic black bear which has been kept by a family in the northern mountainous province of Son La for nearly 30 years.

The Japan-Vietnam Environmental Improvement Joint Stock Company has shown their interest in the initial investment in a project to help tackle the pollution in Hanoi’s To Lich River, using Japanese Nano-Bioreactor technology.

Saigon River in HCM City is facing serious pollution from plastic waste which has been swept into the river.

Reports from the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological indicate that typhoon Kammuri is forecast to move out of the eastern waters of the Philippines and begin to head towards the East Sea from the morning of December 2.

Outstanding law enforcement individuals and collectives with great contributions to wildlife protection were honoured with the third Outstanding Achievement Awards for Wildlife Protection 2019.

The southern province of Bac Lieu is facing rising mounds of rubbish while the waste treatment plant project is stagnant.

The central province of Quang Binh is seeking ways to protect a rare highly threatened kind of langur.

Vietnam has been listed as one of the top five plastic polluters in the world, so eco-friendly technical solutions and the use of bio-degradable plastic products need urgent promotion, participants at a workshop heard on November 29 in Hanoi.

Hanoi has set the target of reducing hard-decomposed plastic bags by 50% at all local traditional markets by the end of 2020, but little has been done to make this a reality.

Protesters in smoke-covered Sydney kicked off a fresh round of global protests against climate change on Friday, with activists and schoolchildren picketing the headquarters of bushfire-ravaged Australia's ruling party.

Many rivers in Hanoi have faced serious pollution for years; however, local authorities have failed to revive them.

A foreign-invested company in Vinh Phuc Province is being investigated after over 100 workers fell ill at work.

The UK has agreed to take back 42 containers of plastic waste illegally shipped to Malaysia, officials said on November 25.

52,700 households in the Mekong Delta are facing a water shortage crisis during the dry season.