VietNamNet Bridge - Prince William will come to Vietnam in November to attend an international conference on wildlife trafficking, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.

 Vietnam ICT Summit 2016 officially launched on September 24 under the theme “Digital revolution - Opportunities and Challenges”.

 Representatives from 182 member countries of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora are gathering at the 17 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Johannesburg, South Africa.

 The government is determined to grasp opportunities from the fourth industrial revolution and develop Vietnam into an IT power, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said.

 The EU Delegation to VN and embassies of some EU countries held a press conference on climate change in Hanoi on Wednesday. The event was part of the European Climate Diplomacy Week in the country from September 19-25. 

The Education for Nature-Vietnam group has called on member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora to vote against Swaziland’s proposal to legalise the rhino horn trade. 

 How to effectively implement Decision No. 985a /QD-TTg approving the national action plan on air quality management up to 2020, with a vision toward 2025, was the subject of a conference held in Hanoi on September 22. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi authorities have tested a special product from Germany to clean water in polluted lakes, with positive results. 

A company collected over VND230 billion (over $10 million) through service message charges from 94,000 mobile service users in Vietnam over two years, but the customers did not know about it.

 The waters of Hue’s iconic Huong River have become very muddy due to landslides caused by the most recent storm.

 The Vietnam Administration of Forestry has proposed a USD896m sustainable development plan to protect, restore and develop the forest in the Central Highlands.

 Many European Union (EU) nations are helping Vietnam tackle climate change through various projects. 

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue affirmed that a start-up ecosystem seminar is an opportunity for the Vietnamese Government and Ha Noi to learn from Israel, a successful start-up nation.

 Redoxy-3C, a substance used to cut pollution in lakes and researched by Hanoi and a German company, has shown positive results when being tested, according to the Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Company.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The large-spotted civet species recently discovered in the Phong Dien Nature Reserve in Hue city was previously considered to be extinct in Vietnam and China by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

 PCCW Media Group from Hong Kong is ramping up its presence in the region with the launch of the MOOV music app on September 19 in Hanoi, in partnership with telecommunications services provider Vietnamobile.

Indicators relating to the sea water quality in Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue provinces are mostly within allowable limits, with the contents of iron, phenol and cyanide declining remarkably.

  Two ”bop” trees aged over 250 years in Ha Lang village, Quang Dien district of central Thua Thien-Hue province have been recognised as Vietnam’s heritage trees. 

Japanese firms NEC Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. have reached an agreement to research and develop an ASNARO-2 satellite for Vietnam.  

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) on September 19 announced that it did not permit the import of 160 tonnes of “red mud” was imported by Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd.