Environment

The Ministry of Transport has set a target that 30 per cent of cars and 22 per cent of motorbikes will be powered by electricity by 2030.

The Phan Rang-Thap Cham city sub-project – part of the Coastal Cities Sustainable Environment Project funded by the World Bank Group was inauguarted in Ninh Thuan on November 2.

As many as 63 earthquakes were reported nationwide in October, the Institute of Geophysics under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology reported on November 1.

Typhoon Kong-rey slammed into Taiwan on Thursday as one of the biggest storms to hit the island in decades, whipping up 10-metre waves, triggering floods and claiming at least one life.

The Can Gio Biosphere Reserve in Ho Chi Minh City's suburbs has been nominated as a Ramsar site for its rich biodiversity.

A man in the central province of Ha Tinh has found a rare python while working in a local field.

The beach along Nguyen Tat Thanh Street in the central city of Danang faces huge waste following Storm Trami.

Authorities in Phu Loc District in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have seized up to 10,000 traps placed in many local areas for wild-bird hunting.

The number of bears kept in captivity in Vietnam has decreased by an impressive 95 per cent, from approximately 4,000 individuals in 2005 to just 192 at 60 bear farms as of the end of August.

Many spots on Son Tra Mountain in the central city of Danang are vulnerable to landslides, posing dangers to visitors.

Authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue's Phu Loc District are investigating an illegal sand mining along a stream under the Bach Ma Mountain.

Authorities in the northern province of Phu Tho have issued a fine of VND1.89 billion against the Vietnam Paper Corporation for causing air and water pollution in the area.

HCM City aims to relocate 5,102 houses which lie along some rivers and canals in an attempt to address environmental pollution in these areas by 2025.

Storm Trami is heading toward Vietnam's central coast, causing heavy rain in the region from October 26, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

More than five tonnes of fish have died in the West Lake in Hanoi over the past week.

Tonnes of rubbish have slid from a waste treatment plant onto a coffee plantation in the Central Highlands City of Dalat's Xuan Truong Ward.

The marine ecosystem of the Nha Trang bay in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa has gradually shown positive recovery after more than 1.5 years implementing concerted solutions under a masterplan to preserve and restore coral reefs there.

Hundreds of people have been deployed to fortify a 300-metre section of dyke in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue ahead of Storm Trami.

The air pollution season could last until the end of March next year, according to meteorological experts.