VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang’s officials are getting impatient because they have not received any reply from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) to the city’s opinions about the drafted reservoir operating process.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Of the 2,900 units inspected in 2013 by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, 40 percent was found as violating the environment laws. But they only bore administrative sanctions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang authorities have said to take the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment nd the Dak Mi 4 Hydropower Plant to the court if these agencies do not revise the draft regulations on operating hydropower reservoirs.

Plant protection chemicals have been killing the agriculture production, while industrial gains have been paid by the polluted land, water, air and human diseases.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There are three outstanding problems in biodiversity management in Vietnam – the legal framework, budget for biodiversity conversation and the wildlife trafficking.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to re-consider the development plans of hydro-power projects No 6 and 6A and others along the Dong Nai River.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) believes that the progressive taxation would be effective in “overpowering” the investors slow in implementing their projects.

Of the 429 enterprises, industrial zones and export processing zones nationwide examined in 2012, 157 were found as violating the environment laws, for which they were imposed the fine of VND32.7 billion.

VietNamNet Bridge – The investors, who want to build hydropower plants or exploit minerals on the forest land, will have to re-plant the same area of forests.

The subjects to carry out the assessments over the projects’ possible impacts on the environment must have the practicing certificates to be provided by state management agencies.

Over a period of ten years, more than 300 businesses responsible for polluting the environment have been taken to task, but just as fast upto 1,000 new ones have sprung up.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of plastic bags consumed in Vietnam is expected to decrease by 65 percent by 2020, compared to the previous decade.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has called on citizens not to consume endangered wildlife ahead of Tet, when the practice is particularly widespread.

The approval of the Law on Water Resources and National Strategy for environmental protection through 2020, the introduction of climate change and sea level rise scenarios for Viet Nam are among top ten events