Environment

Whether it is for power generation or irrigation, all upstream developments on the Mekong River put Việt Nam at risk as the last downstream country, experts said yesterday.

Waste and dead animals from upstream have been washed up to the beach in Nha Trang City, rated as one of the most attractive beaches in the world.

Two or three storms and tropical depressions may appear in the East Sea this November with one or two likely to hit the central and southern regions of Vietnam.

Indonesia and Vietnam are looking to join Thailand in blazing a trail for solar power in Southeast Asia, introducing targets to fire up green energy generation as a landmark global agreement to curb pollution is set to take effect.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Customs Office said its officers and anti-trafficking police uncovered over 700 kg of African elephant tusks hidden in wood blocks transported via Cat Lat port on November 1.

The Hitachi Zosen Corporation (Hitz) will cooperate with the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Environment Co. Ltd. (Citenco) to build a waste treatment facility at the Phuoc Hiep rubbish dump in Cu Chi district in Ho Chi Minh City

Fishermen in Ha Tinh Province have started receiving the compensation for the mass fish deaths in the central region caused by Taiwanese Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation.

Almost one in seven children worldwide live in areas with high levels of outdoor air pollution, mostly in South Asia, and their growing bodies are most vulnerable to damage, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Monday.

Việt Nam has identified over 1,080 species of marine fish, including many highly economically valuable creatures such as the skipjack tuna, Japanese horse mackerel, yellowtail scad, largehead hairtail (or beltfish), ariid catfish, among others.

The world's whaling watchdog moved Thursday to curtail Japan's annual whale hunt, conducted under scientific licence but blasted by critics as a commercial meat haul.

Việt Nam will lose nearly 39 per cent of the total area of Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta – the biggest rice granary of the country if the sea level rises 100cm by the end of the century.

Thousands of fish have been found dead in Hanoi’s Linh Dam Lake since October 26.

HCM City Police has seized one tonne of ivory smuggled from Africa at Cat Lai Port after discovering over two tonnes of smuggled ivory earlier this month.

Phu Quoc Island, one of the popular tourist attractions of Vietnam, is facing the danger of becoming overloaded with waste as the island struggles to process half the daily amount produced.

Vietnam and Thailand will work closely with each other and with international organisations to use and manage Mekong river water resources efficiently to ensure interests of the river basin nations.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan for solid waste management in key economic zones in the north until 2030.

Hanoi has approved Department of Transport's proposal to suspend the operation of restaurant boats on the West Lake for hygienic reasons.

HCM City Police is investigating into two smuggling cases of over two tonnes of ivory from Africa to Cat Lai Port.

HCM City has begun the second phase of an environmental sanitation project at a cost of more than US$524 million, city authorities announced.