Environment

Many people continue to swim at a rubbish-strewn man-made beach in the northern province of Quang Ninh’s Ha Long City.

The Nature Education Centre recently announced the findings of a programme on the assessment of the spread of wildlife violations in 42 districts of nine provinces and cities with the involvement of 12,840 trading establishments, in an effort to

Seventeen bears – which used to be kept in captivity and illegally traded to harvest their bile - are living in a bear conservation centre in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

Côn Đảo National Park is one of the most popular coral reef diving destinations in Việt Nam. With coral cover of about 65 per cent, it has some of the most gorgeous jagged coral reefs in the country.

Thua Thien-Hue Province has issued Decision No.1038 on receiving and implementing the 2nd phase of the carbon and biodiversity project funded by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

A ground-breaking fusion reactor built by Chinese scientists is underscoring Beijing's determination to be at the core of clean energy technology, as it eyes a fully-functioning plant by 2050.

Farmers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak are facing difficulties due to serious droughts.

Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta is expected to increase between April 28 and May 6 as the volume of water flowing southward from the Mekong River will decline.

Han River in Danang City is being polluted by wastewater from nearby restaurants.

The Danang City authorities have asked local departments to stop using plastic products at work and banned plastic bottles at official meetings and conferences.

A waste treatment company in Ca Mau Province is seeking local authorities’ help to deal with the firm’s continual problems of discovering abandoned fetuses during the waste collection.

The authorities in Lao Cai Province have confirmed that the tourist town of Sapa would have enough water supply for the coming Reunification and Labour Day holiday.

A cleaning machine has been used to tidy the beaches in Danang City before the summer holiday starts.

The Huong Khe District People's Court in the central province of Ha Tinh has recently sentenced six local people to a total of 66 months in prison for violating “regulations on protection of endangered, precious and rare animals”.

Thousands of people in northern Myanmar took to the streets on Monday to protest against the proposed reinstatement of a Chinese-backed mega-dam they say will cause huge environmental damage and bring little benefit to the country.

Danang City authorities will implement a rubbish classification plan in Hai Chau District this July and expand to other areas from September.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a consultation seminar to discuss refining mechanisms on feedback and dealing with complaints under the Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (REDD+) for the 2018-2025 period.

Motorbikes have been blamed as the major cause of pollution in HCM City, according to a survey by the Vietnam National University in HCM City.

A US-funded project on dioxin contamination remediation at Bien Hoa airport in the southern province of Dong Nai was launched on April 20.