Environment

A ceremony was held in Da Nang central city on August 31 to receive the title of National Capital 2018 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge programme.

Vietnam is strengthening its co-operation with international organisations to protect endangered species, an official has said.

Vietnam is a country vulnerable to the effects of climate change and as such, it considers adaptation a mandatory requirement to survive, said an official of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Danang City People's Committee on Wednesday issued fines of VND160 million to a hotel investor for directly discharging wastewater onto a local beach.

Industrial waste has been piling up on several streets in HCM City, creating pollution and hurting the quality of life of local residents.

Charity Animal Asia has received five Himalayan black bears from a farm in the southern province of Tien Giang which will be transferred to the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre.

The National Coordination Committee for Mangroves for the Future (MFF) co-ordinated with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Vietnam to organise a workshop to share experience on improving the resilience of coastal ecosystems and communities.

Cu Lao Cham Island in the central province of Quang Nam is facing the severe shortage of fresh water partially due to the on-going drought.

Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park has launched a service to visitors to learn about wild animals.

The Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) launched a short film on August 22, calling for a joint effort to stop the rhino carnage in Africa and end the rhino horn trade.

Amid the peak of the rainy season, dyke violations in Hanoi are set to rear their ugly head.

An international conference on the challenges facing renewable energy in Vietnam will be held at Sofitel Saigon Plaza in Ho Chi Minh City on August 23.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is developing a project to improve waste treatment and management in both rural and urban areas.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has yet to approve a proposal from a thermo electric power project on the dumping of 2.5 million cubic metres of waste mud into the local sea.

Students at Phụng Thượng Primary School in Hanoi’s Phúc Thọ District have started a campaign to stop the use of bear bile by planting medicinal shrubs as a replacement.

Japanese popular singer Ueno Yuuka, who was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for the 16th annual Hội An-Japan Cultural Exchange, will join environmental protection activities in Cẩm Thanh commune as part of the annual event on August 17-19.

The Quảng Trạch thermoelectricity plant, a project of Electricity of Vietnam in the central province of Quảng Bình, is seeking final agreement from governmental agencies to dump 2.5 million cubic metres of waste mud into the local sea area.

A family in the northern province of Thai Nguyen has transferred two bears to Ninh Binh Bear Sanctuary.

The National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the National Committee for Disaster Response, Search and Rescue issued an official dispatch in response to storm Bebinca, the fourth of its kind hitting the country this year.