VietNamNet Bridge - Vietwater 2016, the international exhibition on water supply & drainage, filtration and waste water treatment, to be held in November, is expected to attract 400 businesses from 38 countries.

VietNamNet Bridge - “Is Vietnam becoming the world’s technology landfill?” was a question raised by the National Assembly Chair Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan before the National Assembly’s Standing Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge - Consultants and experts have recommended that Vietnam take measures to prevent foreign-invested projects from using outdated technologies, causing pollution and consuming national resources.

VietNamNet Bridge - A report from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) shows worrying figures about the environment. 

The city in particular and the country in general always look for short- and long-term measures to attract more investments.

Thousands of households living near polluted dumping sites in this northern province will soon heave a sigh of relief as they will be closed by the end of this year.

The population explosion and rapid urbanisation have exerted pressure on HCM City’s environment, experts have said at a seminar held last week on the environmental problems facing the city in the last five years.

VietNamNet Bridge - The rainy season has begun and the serious drought in Mekong Delta is finally over. However, Vietnam will still face water shortages and saline intrusion in the long term. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The environment cannot be allowed to be destroyed for the sake of socio-economic development,

VietNamNet Bridge - The right to live in a healthy environment with no radioactive waste must be a top priority and considered even more seriously than economic benefits.

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite warnings and punishments, enterprises have been using sophisticated methods to ignore regulations, damaging the environment and putting rivers in the Mekong Delta at risk.

VietNamNet Bridge - The following companies have been found causing serious environmental pollution in Vietnam. Most of them are still operating.

VietNamNet Bridge - Investors' reports on the possible environment impact of their projects are often vague and cursory, but government agencies frequently approve them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many foreign-invested projects in textile, paper, dying, steel and other polluting industries have been licensed recently, raising concerns that Vietnam would become a ‘pollution paradise’.  

VietNamNet Bridge - When building factories, investors often neglect applying environment protection solutions and  waste water treatment systems. As a result, rivers become polluted. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Multi-story buildings and apartment buildings are being built in Ha Long City in Quang Ninh City and many fear that the world heritage site Ha Long Bay could become polluted.

The government last week released a plan on air quality control, under which at least 70 percent of steel mills, chemicals and fertilizer plants must be equipped with automatic emission monitoring systems by 2020.

VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists, Gia Lai provincial authorities, local residents and managers of Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve oppose the project on building a hydropower plant in the sanctuary.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Con Dao Island is not only famous for beautiful large beaches and primitive forests, but recently also for beaches covered with garbage.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tens of thousands of factory workers have been living, eating and washing next to a ‘black stream’ for the last 10 years.