Environment

University students in HCM City who have been chosen as envoys for an international programme have developed plans to improve primary-school students' awareness about sanitation and environmental protection.

According to the Ministry of Health, 56 percent of hospitals in Vietnam do not have wastewater treatment systems.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved a $180 million disaster management project.

A national project to explore and assess the management of sea resources and the environment was able to yield important results, including building centres to cope with oil spills.

Thousands of households in Quang Binh Province have been forced to use unhealthy filtration systems.

Chinese merchants have been hunting for ironwood and many other precious timber in Quang Binh province. Prior to that, they hunted for sua wood in many central provinces.

The only remaining Pinta Island tortoise and celebrated conservation icon passed away Sunday, the Galapagos National Park Service said in a statement.

Vietnam ’s 16 economic sectors need almost USD7.6 billion for environmental protection, especially the aquatic sector with USD1 billion needed.

The first phase of HCM City Environmental Sanitation Project is expected to be completed by the end of this month, as scheduled, according to the project management board.

Efforts to stop Myanmar's tigers being hunted to extinction are under threat from a civil war raging in a region, experts warn.

World leaders gathered in Rio weighed steps to root out poverty and protect the environment as the UN chief warned that "time is not on our side" for fixing a mounting list of problems.

Mining companies will have to deposit at least 15 per cent of their committed costs for environmental rehabilitation and restoration prior their mineral extraction.

Suffering from the terrible smell, hundreds of households in Lang Co town in Thua Thien Hue province have to seal the manholes of a waste water treatment project.

Authorities in HCM City this month are conducting an inspection of medical waste-treatment management at local health facilities.

Nearly 57 percent of the sea area around Kien Giang Province's Phu Quoc Island is affected by coral bleaching.

250 stations will be installed to collect harmful wastes in HCMC under the harmful waste collection week project drafted by the local Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Talks on a new global charter to protect the environment and eradicate poverty were heading into overtime as officials admitted they faced a battle to seal a deal ahead of a UN summit.

Vietnam has been warned about the rising social and environmental challenges, called the “natural resource curse.”

Australia announced plans to create the world's largest network of marine parks to protect ocean life.