The Prime Minister approved a project on studying the impact of groundwater use to land subsidence in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta.

 ​​​Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to meet regulations in the annexes of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL Convention).

 The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has issued a plan to completely handle long lasting environmental pollution in Dong Hung Thuan ward of District 12, home to 42 polluting weaving, dyeing, paper and package plants.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will oversee a strategy for exploiting and utilizing natural resources and protecting the marine environment to 2020 and vision to 2030. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Phu Do Village has been making rice vermicelli for more than 400 years. However, the traditional job has caused serious pollution in the village.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Thanh Hoa market for agricultural and forest products in Thanh Hoa town, Long An province has long been known as the wild bird market. This is also the biggest bird market in the southwestern region.

The Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment has recognized 725 perennial fokienia trees in Quang Nam as heritage trees of Vietnam.

Economic globalization, the double impact of climate change, development of irresponsible projects on the Mekong River and irrational exploitation of natural resources are all threatening the survival of the southwestern region of Vietnam.

 A strategy on environmental protection until 2020, with a vision through 2030, has just been launched.

The Vietnam Rivers Network has suggested the Government scrap a trans-Asia waterway and hydropower project planned to be executed in the Red River due to its low efficiency and negative impacts on local communities and biodiversity.

 A captured Owston’s civet, one of the rarest civets in Vietnam, is being cared at the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Centre at the Cuc Phuong National Park of northern Ninh Binh province.

 The Hoa Binh Sugarcane and Sugar JSC will pay more than VNĐ1.4 billion (US$62,790 ) as compensation to the households that suffered from the mass fish deaths along the Bưởi River.

Thousands hectares of forest in the central highlands province of Kon Tum are facing extinction as the local authorities are determined to construct a road that seems of little benefit to travellers.

After three failed dialogues with 14 plants, people of Long Son commune in the southern city of Vung Tau have hired lawyers to prepare a lawsuit against 14 firms for discharging wastewater into the environment, killing their fish.

 The Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE) on May 10 recognised a population of 725 perennial fokienia trees in the central province of Quang Nam as heritage trees of Vietnam. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - For a long time scientists have not seen any signs of tigers in nature Many experts said that this species is extinct in Vietnam, even in nature reserves or national parks.

The pollution in the Buoi River, caused by a sugar factory, has not only killed fish but also affected the water resources of thousand households in 22 communes in the districts of Thach Thanh and Vinh Loc in Thanh Hoa province.

The United Nations would be ready to help Vietnam deal with mass fish deaths on the central coast if the Vietnamese Government makes a formal request, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said.

A diving group sent by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment said they found no layers of dead fish on the seabed in Quang Binh Province as reported by local fishermen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While pollution along the central coast has not been solved, several similar cases of mass fish death have occurred in the central and southern region.