Environment

Haze of black smokes from forest and bush fires have caused visibility problems in Riau in the past two days, especially in the morning, the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said.

A Vao Commune in Dakrong District, Quang Tri Province, has been plagued by illegal gold miners for years despite the efforts of local authorities.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc will stop clearing natural forest land for the planting of industrial trees with high economic value, the provincial authority has announced.

The population explosion and rapid urbanisation have exerted pressure on HCM City’s environment, experts have said at a seminar held last week on the environmental problems facing the city in the last five years.

The Ca Mau provincial authorities have approved a VND 400 billion (US$ 17.92 million) plan to preserve and develop the U Minh Ha national park.

Urbanisation in Vietnam reached 15 per cent growth – a double increase over past two decades, making a 75 per share of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but it needs a big change in earning ‘green growth’ over

Indonesian authorities have seized more than 650 critically endangered pangolins found hidden in freezers and arrested a man for allegedly breaking wildlife protection laws, police said Friday.

Air pollution in Singapore rose to the "unhealthy" level on Friday as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the city-state's National Environment Agency (NEA) said, in a repeat of an annual crisis.

The authorities in Mekong Delta region are struggling to deal with river bank and coastal erosion which is threatening the lives of many people.

The Red River is becoming increasingly polluted while local authorities are struggling to deal with the problems.

Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd, which was blamed for mass fish deaths along the central coast earlier this year, expects to fix all of its environmental protection problems by mid-2018.

Danang’s authorities have chosen red-shanked douc langurs as the city's symbol in the run-up to hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in 2017.

The world’s second largest population of the critically endangered Delacour’s langur was recently discovered by Fauna & Flora International (FFI), giving fresh hope for one of the planet’s rarest species.

The image of local government workers cycling around Hoan Kiem Lake to collect rubbish has become more familiar to Hanoians.

Substantial development measures in the water and energy sectors in Vietnam in the context of complex climate change will be discussed at international exhibitions in Ho Chi Minh City from November 9-11, 2016.

Officials in Ha Tinh Province are trying to avoid punishments after the mass fish deaths in coastal provinces with only one official receiving a reprimand.

While the northern-central coastal region has been described as now being safe for tourism activities since the Formosa environmental disaster, further research will be necessary before seafood from the area are safe, an official said.

Concerns about environmental pollution in Vietnam National Chemical Group’s DAP Dinh Vu Plant in Haiphong city were deepened when the local authorities’ investigation uncovered environmental violations during its operations.

The Animals Asia Foundation has transferred a sun bear in captivity for seven years since being a cub in the northern province of Nam Dinh, to the Tam Dao Bear Rescue Centre.