Environment

A powerful typhoon was churning towards Japan on Wednesday, prompting the weather agency to warn of heavy rain and strong winds and forcing airlines to cancel scores of flights.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 7 chaired the first session of the National Steering Committee on the Settlement of Post-war Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) and Toxic Chemical Consequences (Committee 701).

Lax management in the Central Highlands has led to years of illegal occupation of forested land.

The authorities in Son La Province revoked three licenses issued to the Tay Bac Minerals Investment JSC for mining and processing minerals because of pollution.

A residential area in Hanoi’s suburbs has been totally isolated by flood water for around two weeks.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has supported the relocation of a textile factory in Hanoi city centre over environmental concerns.

More than 1,000 people are expected to join a campaign to clean Quy Nhon City beaches in Binh Dinh Province.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has issued an emergency action plan to conserve primates by 2025, with a vision to 2030, focusing on local national parks, reserves and natural forests.

Long Bien Bridge is one of Hanoi’s most iconic landmarks. However, it is being seriously polluted by large amounts of rubbish.

HCM City has called for investment in environmental protection projects from now through 2025 and announced incentives for such investment as it seeks to resolve certain problems soon.

Dozens of houses by Da River have been evacuated due to erosion after some other fell into the river.

Localities in Hanoi’s suburbs have been covered with a huge amount of rubbish due to recent floods.

Authorities of the central city of Danang plan to build a system of drains for coastal wastewater in Ngu Hanh Son District.

A rare python which was kept by a family in the central province of Ha Tinh has been released back into the wild.

Four earthquakes, measuring from 2.7 to 3.5 on the Richter scale, hit Bắc Trà My and Nam Trà My districts in the central province of Quảng Nam on Thursday morning (July 26), but no damage or casualties were reported.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said that the recent Lao hydroelectric dam collapse would not have a significant impact on Vietnam.

Quang Nam’s authorities have decided to provide an additional VND55bn (USD2.20m) to save the Cua Dai Beach from further serious erosion.

Violations of environmental protection regulations and illegal imports of scrap into Vietnam must be investigated and strictly punished to avoid being repeated.

Vietnam planted a total 12,385ha of coastal forest between 2015-2017 via climate change response and coastal forest protection project for 2015-2020, which raised the coastal forest coverage from 16.9 percent in 2014 to 17 percent last year.