Environment

The current El Nino weather phenomenon is expected peak between October and January and could turn into one of the strongest on record, experts from the World Meteorological Organization said at a news conference on Tuesday.

The 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment is scheduled to take place in Hanoi from October 26 to 30, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Chinese border patrol officials seized 620 wild turtles and tortoises — 510 of them considered endangered — that were found alive in a shipment of frozen seafood from Vietnam, state media said Sunday.

The municipal and provincial Steering Committees for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control have been urged to closely monitor the development of calamities such as flood, flashflood, and landslide.

The People’s Committee of Hanoi inaugurated and put the Phuong Dinh waste treatment plant into operation in Dan Phuong district.

Many residents in Quang Nam Province protested against a firm they believe is extracting sand from the local area without regard to the environmental damage.

The Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park in the central Quang Binh Province has received a northern pig-tailed macaque.

A working group of the Ministry of Health and the World Bank (WB) had a discussion with authority of central Quang Ngai province on August 25 on the development of a solid hazardous medical waste treatment project in the locality.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to establish a new national park in the northern mountainous province mountainous province of Ha Giang.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on the HCM City administration to step up efforts to prevent the flooding that plagues several inner districts.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has urged the acceleration of a project on surveying marine resources and environment to serve the building of strategies and plans on sustainable economic development and national defence and security at sea.

The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has invested in 27 major projects focusing on coping with climate change, drought and sea water intrusion.

Save Viet Nam's Wildlife (SVW) and Cuc Phuong National Park has rescued 56 Java Pangolins in Thanh Hoa Province.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has helped the central city of Hue implement a project to improve its water environment since 2008.

Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting for 1 in 6 premature deaths in the world's most populous country, a new study finds.

Police in Hanoi and Danang have seized one tonne of elephant tusks and rhino horn smuggled into Vietnam from Africa.

A four-day training course is taking place in Da Lat city in central Lam Dong province through August 14 to boost law enforcement activities of forest rangers while fighting wildlife crime.

Encroachment by the sea has caused soil erosion, threatening residential areas and crops in the coastal Go Cong area in the southern Tien Giang Province.

A rare white Bengal tiger imported from a Canadian zoo have given birth to 3 white cubs at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in HCM City.