Environment

Over 4,900 scrap containers left unclaimed for 90 days are piling up at major seaports across the country, raising environmental concerns.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre has received VNĐ140 billion (US$6.3 million) from the Government to repair two embankments to prevent landslides along rivers and upgrade another on the coast.

The customs officers at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport has seized nearly one tonne of ivory, pangolin scales and other parts of wild animals.

Tetra Pak, the leading supplier of packaging products for liquid food and beverages from Sweden, launched a recycling program to collect used milk cartons at 30 kindergartens in Ho Chi Minh City.

More breakthrough solutions are needed to help farmers in the Mekong Delta cope with unpredictably rising water levels, according to experts.

A large, very strong typhoon churned towards Japan Friday, with the weather agency warning the storm would rip through the nation over the weekend, bringing violent winds and torrential rain.

Animals Asia has saved one Tibetan bear which has been kept for 15 years at a farm in Lao Cai Province.

Many visitors to Son Tra Peninsular in the central city of Danang still feed monkeys despite warnings from authorities.

Three men accused of torturing and killing kangaroos are being hunted by police in Australia, just days after a man was arrested for intentionally mowing down emus in another high-profile animal cruelty case.

In a village in Vietnam's "elephant kingdom", a vendor holds up a severed, dried tail dotted with coarse hairs she promises will bring good luck -– a grim new trade that is endangering the country's few remaining elephants.

Hanoi authorities have vowed to punish and revoke the licence of firms which are polluting the environment.

Greenpeace activists Tuesday scaled storage tanks at an Indonesian palm oil refinery along with a popular rock band which played pro-environment songs, protesting against a commodity found in everything from soap to biscuits.

Quang Ninh is using a Japanese water treatment technology which was piloted in several localities in Vietnam last year and has proved effective.

The Vietnam Maritime Administration has ordered all seaport management agencies to quickly deal with the huge backlog of imported scrap containers across the country.

Vietnam will cooperate with Japan in reducing marine plastic waste, according to head of the Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI) Ta Dinh Thi.

The National Assembly Standing Committee has approved environmental protection tax hike for oil and petroleum products from early next year.

Vietnam has recorded 35 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5-4.5 so far this year, according the Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Centre under the Institute of Geophysics.

A wildlife trafficker has been sent to prison for 10 years by the People’s Court of Dien Bien district, the northwestern province of Dien Bien.

Rescuers were digging through a landslide that buried at least 10 homes and killed three people in the central Philippines Thursday, as monsoon rains unleashed more misery on the already-battered country.