General News

  • The government of Vietnam has issued a decree regulating environmental protection fee charged for the release of wastewater which will take effect from January 1st, 2017, state media reported. According to Decree 154/2016/ND-CP, the fee to be...
    Monday, 28th November, 2016
  • As many as 80% of industrial parks (IPs) in Vietnam have violated regulations on environmental protection, state media reported, citing a domestic scholar. Associate Prof. Dinh Duc Truong from Hanoi University of Economics said that few of more than...
    Monday, 28th November, 2016
  • Despite repeated warnings and sanctions, the Lam Thao Fertilizers and Chemicals JSC is still discharging substandard waste water into the Red River, causing pollution and harming people’s lives along the river. Lam Thao, operational since June 1962...
    Monday, 28th November, 2016
  • The sea waters off Ninh Thuan province are in danger of becoming polluted as big volumes of domestic garbage from thousands of local people are discharged into the sea every day. Large landfills have arisen in the coastal areas of Ca Na, Phuoc Diem...
    Monday, 28th November, 2016
  • Vietnam’s government has issued Decree 155/2016/ND-CP stipulating fines in the environment sector with the highest up to VND2 billion ($88,495), the government said on its website. Under which, individuals and organizations which violate regulations...
    Monday, 28th November, 2016
  • Customs officials in Ho Chi Minh City discovered around 500 kilograms of ivory hidden in wooden blocks in two containers imported from Africa on November 24 night. This is the fifth shipment stopped by customs officials in Ho Chi Minh City since...
    Monday, 28th November, 2016
  • The Australian Embassy has announced that a new group of 53 Australia Awards scholars will leave Vietnam in early 2017 to undertake postgraduate studies in Australia. Among these scholarship recipients are 38 women and one disabled person. The...
    Monday, 28th November, 2016
  • A French-Vietnamese woman has returned to her home country to claim damages from the U.S. chemical companies that manufactured Agent Orange, a defoliant used by the U.S. during the American war in Vietnam, and work together with U.S. filmmakers on a...
    Monday, 21st November, 2016
  • A charitable art program raising fund for the poor will be organized at the Ho Chi Minh City Television’s Theater on November 25. The event will be jointly held by the Vietnamese Fatherland front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and Ho Chi Minh City...
    Monday, 21st November, 2016
  • Authorities of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have requested the municipal Board for Religious Affairs and relevant agencies to roll out measures to preserve Khmer culture, which is on the verge of oblivion. Le Hung Yen, Deputy Director of the...
    Monday, 21st November, 2016