VietNamNet Bridge – Labour, invalids and social affairs offices in HCM City's districts should monitor illegal home-based childcare centres because children there face a high risk of violence, the HCM City Child Welfare Foundation has warned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ground water exploitation in most inner-city districts and a section of Nha Be District will be banned if the map of restricting ground water exploitation is approved.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government next year will close all natural forests to prevent them from being over-exploited and exhausted, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at a recent government online meeting.

The government of Vietnam has been prohibiting exporting raw natural minerals over the last few years. However, the ban has not had high enforcement.

Vietnam has intensified the research on gas hydrate on its waters and continental shelf.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of mining enterprises have been found as running away after the mining period and not fulfilling the post-mining works they committed when receiving the exploitation licenses.

Eleven projects on exploiting minerals have been licensed in Hung Thinh, a small poor commune in Tran Yen of the northern province of Yen Bai, which threatens the living environment of local people.