A brewery, a seafood processing company and an industrial park in southern Khanh Hoa province have been ordered to stop polluting the environment and undertake immediate clean-up measures.

Experts from The Fauna and Flora International (FFI) have announced their findings regarding the presence of hundreds of rare primates in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang world natural heritage site in central Quang Binh province.

A cassava starch processing factory, run by Taiwanese company Vedan in the north-central province of Ha Tinh, has been shut down after inspectors found it was polluting the Rao Tro river.

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and the Environment Police Department will carry our surprise inspections of all factories operating in high-pollution industries.

A waste sorting project to promote environmental protection project in Hanoi - 3R (reduce-reuse-recycle) HN - will try to reduce buried waste in the capital city to 30 percent by 2015 and 70 percent by 2020.

Traces of a rare type of gayal were found in Phuoc Binh national garden in Bac Ai district, sourthern Ninh Thuan province, reported conservationists.

The central province of Thanh Hoa and its Lao neighbouring province Houphanh, which share 192 km of borderline, have signed a programme to coordinate in forest protection from now to 2012.

Many rare species of animals, birds and fishes have made their home at the Lung Hoc Hoang Nature Reserve in southern Hau Giang province, said its Director Nguyen Hoang Tho.

The Technical University of Dresden (TUD), part of Germany ’s IAA Institute, and the HCM City based Ba Dong Company have agreed to become strategic technical partners in environmental treatment for waste water projects in Vietnam.

Japan will extend support to Vietnam’s efforts to cope with climate change through a technical cooperation project “Study on potential forests and land related to climate change and forests”.

Vietnam has affirmed its commitment to engage all necessary resources for the sustainable forest management, forest protection and development.

The Dutch Directorate for Development Cooperation has provided over 50,000 Euros to help central Thua Thien-Hue province adapt to climate change.

The Hanoi Urban Environment Company (Urenco) and the PJI-LFGC Vietnam will kick off the nation’s first exhaust gas retrieving and using project in Nam Son rubbish site on June 3 in response to the World Environment Day (June 5).