Environment

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has hailed some local supermarkets for using environmentally-friendly materials in wrapping goods instead of plastic bags.

Singapore has seized 12.9 tonnes of pangolin scales found in a shipping container destined for Vietnam, the biggest seizure of its kind globally in five years, authorities said yesterday.

Vietnam is one of the countries hardest-hit by bombs, mines and explosives left over from the war, said an official from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhat said that air quality in Hanoi got worst in winter and early spring and last from two to three months.

Residents in Ly Son Island, Quang Ngai Province, have expressed concern about the shortage of underground water as drought looms over the island as summer starts.

Nearly 5.3 million breeding shrimps and fish, and other aquatic species were released into the sea off the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 1.

More than 100 young people cleaned Da Den Beach at Danang’s Son Tra Peninsula on March 31.

At least 25 people have been killed and hundreds injured after stormy weather hit southern Nepal, destroying houses, uprooting trees and toppling electricity poles, officials said.

A workshop was held in Hanoi on March 29 to discuss urban resilience to extreme climate issues in Southeast Asia.

Hanoi’s air quality index over the past three days has reached dire levels.

Local farmers in Thanh Son Commune, Dong Nai Province, have complained about their plants being destroyed by rampaging wild elephants.

Two brothers in Hanoi’s outlying district of Ba Vi has been fined VND1.5 million (USD65.21) for posting a clip killing two rare birds on Youtube.

Tonnes of rubbish have covered My Khe Beach in the central city of Danang after heavy rains.

Police in the central province of Nghe An announced on Monday that they had arrested a local man for illegally trading two tiger cubs.

Many Vietnamese artists have actively responded to the global Challenge for Change movement for environmental protection.

Dozens of valuable trees have been illegally logged at a nature reserve in the northern province of Hoa Binh.

More than 3,000 cu.m of untreated wastewater is released into Hanoi’s Cầu Bây Canal through 26 discharge points daily.

A ceremony in response to the World Meteorological Day 2019 was held in the northern port city of Hai Phong on March 23, calling for actions to protect human lives and assets in the context of increasing extreme weather phenomena.

A rare three-month-old albino penguin made its first public appearance at a zoo in the Polish Baltic port city of Gdansk, where its keepers claim it is the only one of its kind in captivity.