The Ministry of Finance has urged the Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment, Transport and Agriculture and Rural Development to quickly draw up a plan to collect environment protection fees on exhaust emissions.

 Officials in Da Nang have raised concerns about the increased problems of flooding and environmental issues in the city.

 Local people in Thanh Hoa Province are worried after thousands of litres of oil spilt on the streets from a military fuel station.

 Over four million tons of untreated coal ash and slag, discharged from thermal power plants in the south-central coastal province of Binh Thuan, pose serious risks to the environment, said a local official.

 Ecosystem-based solutions are vitally important for the Mekong Delta to adapt to climate change in the decades to come, speakers said at a seminar held in Can Tho over the weekend.

 Many restaurants in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are serving wild animals, but local authorities say it's hard to deal with the problem.

 Some 30 kilometres of beach in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has suffered from serious erosion.

 Vietnam has called on countries around the world to raise the spirit of cooperation and harmonise their own interests with international concerns in coping with climate change.

 Vietnam remains fully committed to international actions to fight climate change, said Pham Van Tan, Deputy Director of the Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

 The authorities in Quang Nam Province are going to spend VND100bn (US$4.3m) on a project to protect the endangered gray-shanked douc langur.

 My Khe Beach in Danang City’s Ngu Hanh Son District has been covered with waste following torrential rains over recent days.

 A female sun bear was rescued yesterday after 15 years in captivity in a border district of Tay Ninh Province in southeast Vietnam.

 Son Tra Island and some other beaches in Danang City have continued to face serious erosions and landslides after the heavy rains over the past few days.

 The central province of Ha Tinh has submitted an urgent plan to protect the elephant for the 2019-2025 period to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on December 9.

 The southernmost province of Ca Mau is facing coastal erosion which has worsened over recent years.

 Phuong Bac Infrastructure Company proposed November 8 to transform the heavily-polluted To Lich River in Hanoi. 

 A roundtable on climate change and security was held in The Hague of the Netherlands on December 4 to exchange information and assess models, measures and experience in ensuring environmental security and climate change response.

 Geological and mining experts recently debated the feasibility and economic and social impacts of the exploitation of the Red River Delta coal basin, which has estimated reserves a hundred billion tonnes of coal.

 The coastal area of Son Tra Peninsular in the central city of Danang’s ecosystem has faced a serious degradation over the past decade due to human activity.

 The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has coordinated with Thailand to place artificial reefs in waters around Phu Quoc island to restore, preserve, and develop local fisheries resources.