Environment

A cement plant has been forced to temporarily shut down as dozens of households in the central province of Quang Ngai continue to demand to be relocated due to environmental pollution.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers has asked the government to monitor the implementation of a USD1.2 billion Hong Kong-invested paper project in Hau Giang due to environmental concerns.

The European Commission (EC) on June 22 launched a new co-operation project with Vietnam to enhance the capacity and effectiveness of its nuclear safety authority, the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety.

Baking hot temperatures have raised the forest fire warning in six provinces to level 5 – the extremely dangerous level, according to the Vietnam Forest Administration under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and Vietnam Television organised a ceremony on June 19 on Sam Son beach of central Thanh Hoa province to launch a campaign to clean the sea at the national level.

Hundreds of hectares of coral at Con Dao Islands some 80 kilometres to the south-west of Vietnam have been being bleached though a process attributed due to the El Nino phenomenon.

HCM City is one of the hotspots of illegal trade and consumption of wildlife and plants, experts have said.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has ordered an investigation into a local titanium exploiter in Binh Thuan Province after a waste reservoir broke allowing huge amounts of toxic red mud to flood residential areas.

A white-cheeked gibbon has been returned to the wild after being illegally kept by a family in Ha Tinh for 10 years.

The World Bank has approved US$310 million to help Vietnam build climate response programmes and ensure sustainable livelihoods of 1.2 million people living in nine Mekong Delta provinces affected by climate change, saline intrusion, coastal erosion, and flooding.

The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) and central regions are expanding areas to breed livestock as well as other animals like sheep, ostriches, goats, honeybees and silkworms.

The Natural Resources and Environment Department in central province of Hà Tĩnh has asked two companies to install automatic monitoring equipment for testing emissions and the dust of emission discharge systems.

On Xuân Diệu Street in Hanoi, these days, you might catch a glimpse of a group of foreigners and Vietnamese collecting trash, which has illegally been dumped into the small lake by the side of the road.

The national action plan on air quality control until 2020 with a vision to 2025, which aims to strictly monitor sources of exhaust fumes, especially industrial fumes, has been approved by the Prime Minister.

The government of HCM City on June 3 signed a 450-million-USD contract with a private company for a project to prevent tidal flooding in a 570-sq km area of the city.

Diverse activities are taking place nationwide to respond to World Environment Day, June 5.

Dubai on Thursday announced plans to build a 1,000-megawatt solar power plant by 2030, the year it aims to turn to renewable energies for 25 percent of electricity needs.

The sluggish construction of a water supply plant in the northern province of Ninh Binh Province has caused more than 1,000 local households left to thirst for clean water.

Dredging and filling activities during China’s illegal construction and reinforcement of man-made islands in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago have caused considerable losses of and irreversible damage to the ecosystem here, particularly beautiful and unique coral reefs.