ECONOMY-SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGY
Fine on polluters may reach $100,000
17/04/2012|08:41:00
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has proposed the government to raise administrative fine up to VND2 billion ($100,000) on acts of individuals and organizations that cause environmental pollution.
HCM City to host recycling event
09/04/2012|04:21:00
VietNamNet Bridge – The fifth annual Waste Recycling Day will be held on April 15 at the Labour Cultural House in District 1 to raise awareness of the three Rs – reducing, reusing and recycling waste.
Capital's air still worst in SE Asia
27/03/2012|09:59:00
Four years ago, experts declared that the air in urban Ha Noi was the most polluted in South East Asia. Since then an increasing number of cars and motorbikes has led to an assessment that they are creating 70 per cent of the dust, nitric oxides and sulphur compounds found in the city's air.
Old kilns pollute southern skies
27/03/2012|09:50:00
(VietNamNet Bridge)-Smoke discharges from thousands of brick-kilns in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have polluted the environment and impacted human health and agricultural productivity.