Japan’s Nikken Sekkei Civil Engineering Ltd. (NSC) won the first prize at an international contest for the planning design with a scale of 1/5000 in Can Gio district.

 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment launched a campaign on October 12, calling for joint efforts in plastic waste prevention nationwide, in response to the 2018 “Make the world cleaner” campaign.

 A group of young people from Hanoi have been travelling around the country, exchanging books for plastic waste to make eco-bricks, as they want to join the global efforts to reduce plastic waste.

 The negative effects of climate change and rising sea levels along the central coastal provinces of Vietnam requires the efforts of both local authorities and businesses in minimising losses.

 Authorities in the southern province of Binh Phuoc have requested an urgent investigation into a serious illegal logging in the locality.

 The Danang government has taken multiple steps to tackle the severe pollution at the Khanh Son landfill, the largest in the city, according to the municipal Department of Information and Communications.

 Vietnam has actively implemented international commitments andmade efforts to cope with climate change.

Some four milllion tons of untreated  coal ash discharged from Vinh Tan 2 thermal power plant in Tuy Phong District, Binh Thuan Province, is causing serious concern among provincial authorities.

 Cast iron slag is still considered solid waste to be treated and buried in Vietnam.

 A plan to revive the Kim Nguu River which is one of the worst polluted in Hanoi has attracted lots of attention from the public.

 Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport have seized nearly a tonne of elephant tusks, ivory products and pangolin scales hidden inside cargo packages.

 Over 4,900 scrap containers left unclaimed for 90 days are piling up at major seaports across the country, raising environmental concerns.

 Plastic waste is a resource that needs to be collected, sorted and recycled. Non-reusable solid waste should be moved to a waste treatment plant, said a representative from the Ministry of Construction. 

 Vietnam has proposed initiatives to enhance the role of the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP) and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in coping with climate change. 

 Vietnam has made great strides in the fight against wildlife crime, said Bui Thi Ha, Deputy Director of Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV), a non-governmental organisation on the reservation of nature and the protection of the environment.

 Hanoi authorities have vowed to punish and revoke the licence of firms which are polluting the environment. 

 Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Long An are opposed to the construction of a new thermal power plant project, saying that a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plant should be built instead for power generation.

 Nguyễn Phương Anh, a 12-year-old student from Hà Nội Amsterdam School, thought plastic bags found their final resting place in the dustbin until she joined an educational project on plastic recycling.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment strengthen inspections on environmental protection in mineral mining.

 Vietnam will cooperate with Japan in reducing marine plastic waste, according to head of the Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI) Ta Dinh Thi.