environment pollution

Update news environment pollution

Vietnam seeks capital for water supply and drainage systems

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietwater 2016, the international exhibition on water supply & drainage, filtration and waste water treatment, to be held in November, is expected to attract 400 businesses from 38 countries.

Vietnam could become world’s technology landfill

VietNamNet Bridge - “Is Vietnam becoming the world’s technology landfill?” was a question raised by the National Assembly Chair Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan before the National Assembly’s Standing Committee.

Gov't urged to install technical barriers to filter FDI projects

VietNamNet Bridge - Consultants and experts have recommended that Vietnam take measures to prevent foreign-invested projects from using outdated technologies, causing pollution and consuming national resources.

Environment Ministry's report shows serious environmental problems

VietNamNet Bridge - A report from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) shows worrying figures about the environment. 

FDI down as HCM City becomes more choosy

The city in particular and the country in general always look for short- and long-term measures to attract more investments.

Quang Ninh’s dumping sites to close by year-end

Thousands of households living near polluted dumping sites in this northern province will soon heave a sigh of relief as they will be closed by the end of this year.

HCMC’s environment under pressure: experts

The population explosion and rapid urbanisation have exerted pressure on HCM City’s environment, experts have said at a seminar held last week on the environmental problems facing the city in the last five years.

Vietnam needs master plan for water sources: expert

VietNamNet Bridge - The rainy season has begun and the serious drought in Mekong Delta is finally over. However, Vietnam will still face water shortages and saline intrusion in the long term. 

PM pushes for development without environment destruction

 VietNamNet Bridge – The environment cannot be allowed to be destroyed for the sake of socio-economic development,

Was it a bad decision to set up Dinh Vu DAP plant in Hai Phong?

VietNamNet Bridge - The right to live in a healthy environment with no radioactive waste must be a top priority and considered even more seriously than economic benefits.

Mekong Delta: enterprises dodge environmental regulations

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite warnings and punishments, enterprises have been using sophisticated methods to ignore regulations, damaging the environment and putting rivers in the Mekong Delta at risk.

The companies which cause serious pollution

VietNamNet Bridge - The following companies have been found causing serious environmental pollution in Vietnam. Most of them are still operating.

Weak adherence to environment law leads to licensing of polluting projects

VietNamNet Bridge - Investors' reports on the possible environment impact of their projects are often vague and cursory, but government agencies frequently approve them.

Environmental pollution – the other side of the FDI coin

VietNamNet Bridge - Many foreign-invested projects in textile, paper, dying, steel and other polluting industries have been licensed recently, raising concerns that Vietnam would become a ‘pollution paradise’.  

Riverside factories poisoning rivers

VietNamNet Bridge - When building factories, investors often neglect applying environment protection solutions and  waste water treatment systems. As a result, rivers become polluted. 

Will apartment complexes continue to discharge waste water in Ha Long Bay?

VietNamNet Bridge - Multi-story buildings and apartment buildings are being built in Ha Long City in Quang Ninh City and many fear that the world heritage site Ha Long Bay could become polluted.

Few steel mills run automatic emission-monitoring systems

The government last week released a plan on air quality control, under which at least 70 percent of steel mills, chemicals and fertilizer plants must be equipped with automatic emission monitoring systems by 2020.

Proposed Vinh Son 2 hydropower project causes public controversy

VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists, Gia Lai provincial authorities, local residents and managers of Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve oppose the project on building a hydropower plant in the sanctuary.  

Garbage litters beaches on Con Dao

VietNamNet Bridge - Con Dao Island is not only famous for beautiful large beaches and primitive forests, but recently also for beaches covered with garbage.

Pollution threatens lives of thousands of workers in Dong Nai

VietNamNet Bridge - Tens of thousands of factory workers have been living, eating and washing next to a ‘black stream’ for the last 10 years.