Environment

Illegal gold mining activities in Kon Tum Province's Kon Plong District have been halted with all illegal gold miners being expelled, an official said.

The 28 leaders overcame deep divisions at a summit in Brussels to reach a deal including a headline commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 per cent, 16 years from now.

Pu Mat National Park has just released a number of rare species caught by hunters.

The deputy chairman of Ho Chi Minh City's People Committee has called for seminars to be held in order to discuss measures to cope with flooding in the area.

Vietnam will completely abolish the use of more than 500 tonnes of HCFC-141b, a chemical that damages the ozone layer, in the production of thermal insulation foam by the end of 2014.

People living near Ba Dinh district's Long Bien Market in Hanoi, the biggest wholesale market in the northern region, complained of rotten produce and wastewater smells affecting their daily lives for nearly a decade.

Vietnam has about 60% less mangrove forest than 70 years ago, according to a recent report.

Efforts to curb the deadly trade in rhino horn appear to be gaining traction, with a poll finding that demand for the animal part in Vietnam has dropped by more than a third over the past year.

Discarded phones and tablets are among waste products that will be retrieved and processed from January 1, 2015, under a decision taken by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The Vietnam Red Cross in collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have just released the 2014 World Disaster Report.

A dozen households in Hanoi have been living in unsanitary conditions as a result of sewage water rising to their doors.

Several rare wild animals have recently been discovered in U Minh Ha Forest in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

More than 800 people, mostly older people, took part in a meeting to mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) in southern My Tho City, Tien Giang province on October 13.

Newly built seafood and garment factories have polluted once-pristine rural areas in the Mekong delta, but relief seems far away.

Heavy metals in the soil, including lead and zinc, threaten the land environment around industrial zones in Dong Nai province.

A one-year-old Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) has been moved to the northern Ninh Binh Province's Cuc Phuong National Park for further care.

The government of Vietnam has recently decided to spend VND3 trillion on climate change related projects, said Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai.

A new plant species, thought to exist nowhere else in the world, was discovered in Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in Thanh Hoa Province.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has urged all ministries, sectors and localities to draft their own response plans for strong and super strong storms by June next year at the latest.