Timely reports made by people have helped rescue many wildlife animals, said Director of Education for Nature Vietnam Bui Thi Ha on May 3. 

A 65-hectare freshwater reservoir with a designed capacity of 4.5 million cubic metres will be built in Vinh Tuong commune, Vi Thuy district, the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang in response to climate change.

 The customs office at Saigon Port under the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department on May 3 seized an additional 3.3 tonnes of pangolin scales illegally imported from Africa.

The international conference ‘Science for Development’ will be held in Quy Nhon City of Binh Dinh Province from May 9-10 on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Rencontres du Vietnam. 

 VNG Corporation has just announced that it discovered a post on an international forum with the confidential information on 160 million Zing ID accounts on April 26.

 The 4th FabLab Asia Network Conference (FAN4) opened yesterday, May 2, in Ho Chi Minh City with the theme ‘Co-create a better world’.

HCMC is leading the nation in the management and treatment of household and animal husbandry waste, said officials from the National Assembly’s Committee for Science, Technology and Environment.

 As many as 110 individuals of wild animals were rescued and released into the environment or rescue centres in the first three months of this year.

 Taiwan-based Formosa Group, which caused the largest environmental damage in 2016, is surprisingly not on the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE)’s list of enterprises and industrial zones to be inspected this year.

 IBM has begun promoting its new technology, IBM Cloud Private (ICP), in Viet Nam after it was introduced in October 2017 and is now being used by 150 customers worldwide.

 The police have raided a major forest destruction site in Yok Don National Forest in Dak Lak Province.

 After 43 years of liberation and development, Ho Chi Minh City has been steadily transforming itself into a more modern and sustainable city. The next step is to become a smart city in the era of Industry 4.0.

 Many households and farmers in Ha Nam Province are calling for help as their health and fish have been badly affected by the polluted Chau Giang River.

 Police of the southern province of Binh Duong detected a wildlife transport case on April 28.

 The customs office at Saigon Port under the HCMC Customs Department discovered and seized nearly 3.8 tonnes of pangolin scales which were hidden in two containers imported to Vietnam from Congo through Cat Lai port.

 After mobile operators announced a temporary halt of scratchcard payments in the past few days, digital and online gaming businesses said they had been hit hard.

Ca Mau is taking preventive measures to manage pollution hotspots at industrial zones and clusters, intensive shrimp-farming establishments, and aquaculture processing facilities.

  No mobile phone subscribers have been locked out of service yet, two days after a controversial new decree went into force that demands subscribers to submit real information – including portrait photos – to network carriers.

 Farmers are suffering a paradox of “good crop but prices drop” with one of main reasons being weak application of post-harvest technology.

 With Vietnam being listed in the Top 5 fastest-growing ICT industries in the world there are more schemes than ever that support businesses in the government’s digital push to develop smart cities.