Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha visited Quy Nhon beach in central Binh Dinh province on November 7 to inspect the search for missing sailors and direct response to possible oil spills from sunk freighters in storm Damrey.

 Non-governmental organisation Four Paws Viet and Ninh Binh Province’s forest management department on Monday rescued three Tibetan bears illegally held in captivity at two local households.

 Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi's Ba Dinh District is one of the most famous bridges in Hanoi and attracts many visitors. However, the surrounding water is being severely polluted by a vast amount of rubbish.

 Authorities of the central province of Quang Ngai have allowed the Northern Vietnam Maritime Safety Corporation to dump around 62,000 cubic metres of mud and sand into the sea.

 A major driver of the illegal wildlife trade in the Golden Triangle – the border area where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar – is tourists from Vietnam and China.

 The Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) has launched a hotline for the public to call to provide information on waste discharge activities that cause pollution.

 The West Lake has had a new look after the project to dredge it has almost been finished.

 The island of Tam Hai, off the coast of Quang Nam, has been struggling against a flood of household garbage treatment after the failure of a rubbish-fired furnace.

 Titanium mining and processing projects in central coast provinces have left negative impact on other economic sectors and put the environment at risk of severe pollution.

 Hanoi plans to install an additional 70 air monitoring stations to improve air quality, according to the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

 Elke Schwierz has enjoyed every moment at Cuc Phuong National Park in northern Ninh Binh Province for the past 15 years.

 Nguyen Trong Dong, director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, announced on October 19 that cars will have to be washed before entering Hanoi city centre in order to prevent pollution.

 Hanoi will roll out action programmes and plans to improve air quality in the city based on the outcomes of a French-funded air quality assessment project, said a municipal leader. 

 The Culture and Nature Reserve of southern Dong Nai province will work with investors to build a wildlife safari inside the reserve in Ma Da commune, Vinh Cuu district.

 More people have rushed to Son Tra Peninsular in Danang City to capture photos of red-shanked douc langurs, raising concerns that this would affect their living environment.

 The first domesticated elephant in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak gave birth to the first baby on October 8, however, it died right before being born.

 Vietnam’s drainage and wastewater treatment system has been old, downgraded, asynchronous and unable to catch up with urbanization speed, said Mr. Cao Lai Quang, chairman of Vietnam Water Supply and Sewerage Association.

 More than 8,000sq.m of special-use forests were destroyed in just three months between July and September in Dong Met village, Pa Khoang commune, Dien Bien district, in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

 There are nearly 700 purebred white horses in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son’s Khau Sao grassland, Vietnam.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Construction hold a conference about recycling ash and slag waste from coal power plants as construction materials for the Mekong Delta on October 3.