Environment

The Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Company reported that as many as 30 spots in Hanoi are often affected by heavy rains, with rainfall of more than 70mm per hour.

An Indian court has urged the government to declare a national emergency over the country's ongoing heatwave, saying that hundreds of people had died during weeks of extreme weather.

Yellow-spined bamboo locusts have damaged up to 500 hectares of forest and crops in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang.

A vast area of coral off the Con Dao Islands has been bleached and died due to the El Nino phenomenon.

A tropical depression in the East Sea has been forecasted to strengthen into a storm, bringing more rain to many Vietnamese localities.

A minor earthquake occurred at noon on Thursday in the central province of Quang Ngai's Son Tay District, following many tremors in different locations over the past few days.

The northern province of Ninh Binh experienced a 3.4 Richter scale magnitude earthquake this morning, May 27.

The Management Board of Ly Son Marine Reserve in the central province of Quang Ngai has launched a campaign to collect waste from Ly Son Island's coastal waters.

Two rare pangolins rescued in the central province of Quang Nam have given birth to two offspring.

The Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh Province has just received 21 monkeys of rare and endangered species from the Hoang Lien National Park in the northern province of Lao Cai.

The traffic police have seized four boats used to extract sand illegally on the Red River and confiscated 1,100 cubic metres of sand.

Around 25 tonnes of green lobsters in the southern central province of Phu Yen have suddenly died, causing losses for farmers.

HCM City has planned to spend VND6.2 trillion (USD243.61 million) to upgrade the Van Thanh Canal.

A rare mouse lemur found at a house in HCM City has been handed over to the local Forest Protection Department.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade (DOIT), celebrated their joint success in a five-year partnership advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency in the city.

For the first time in five years, a group of incredibly rare douc langurs was spotted in Chu Mom Ray National Park in the Central Highlands Province of Kon Tum.

Hundreds of tonnes of rubbish have just been collected from the Nuoc Den (Black Water) Canal in HCM City's Binh Tan District following efforts from local authorities and volunteer groups.

Drivers on the section of National Highway 1A running through the central province of Ha Tinh have been troubled by rampant straw burning.

A wreathed hornbill found flying at a house in HCM City was handed over to the city's Forest Protection Department on Wednesday.