Environment

Over 42% of the households in HCM City are using water that isn’t safe.

Tadashi Yamamura, President of the Japan Environment and Trade Promotion Organisation, said they would start a pilot programme to clean a part of Hanoi's To Lich River.

Dutch experts have suggested building artificial islands in the central province of Quang Nam to help deal with on-going severe erosion at Cua Dai Beach.

A Vietnamese man has been arrested for attempting to smuggle an entire tiger skin and tiger bones into China, police said Thursday in the southeast Asian country where illegal wildlife trade flourishes.

Aviation has boomed in the past decades, with low-cost airlines helping make travel affordable to more people, but the industry faces a major challenge to play its part in cutting emissions responsible for global warming.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has revealed a plan to check 51 solid waste treatment facilities in 25 provinces and cities throughout the country.

Many areas in Hanoi may face water shortages due to forecasted heat waves while demand for clean water would also increase this summer, according to the Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

HCM City authorities plan to spend VND8 trillion (USD347 million) on 218 anti-flood projects in 2019.

More than 40 animals, including five lions, were evacuated from squalid conditions in a Gaza Strip zoo on Sunday to be taken to Jordan, an animal welfare group said.

A giant forest fire swept across swathes of South Korea Friday, as authorities declared a rare national disaster, deploying 900 fire engines and tens of thousands of personnel to bring it under control.

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.