VietNamNet Bridge – Waste treatment remains a big headache for local authorities in the Mekong Delta. While open dumping on the ground pollutes the environment, modern waste treatment plants have been left idle.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A brewery in the central province of Nghe An, long resented by its neighbors, has nevertheless been welcomed with open arms by the local authorities, because it is a big tax payer.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam needs to support efforts to protect the environment with forceful laws, Colonel Doan Huu Chau, head of Ha Noi's environment police, told newspaper Kinh te & Do thi (Economic and Urban Affairs).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Wastewater and gas discharged from the Dung Quat Oil Refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai did not cause environmental pollution,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese southerners have been flocking to Ly Son in Quang Ngai province to avoid the April heat, bringing along their garbage to the island.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local people in Quang Ngai province have complained that gas from the Dung Quat Oil Refinery is polluting their air. But the refinery’s managers deny this.

A Soyuz rocket has launched from French Guiana with the first satellite in the European Union's new multi-billion-euro Earth-observation programme.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities have found hundreds of casks containing pesticide and contaminated soil on the grounds the Nicotex Thai Thanh Pesticide JSC in the central province of Thanh Hoa.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The local people in the industrial town area of Lao Cai province wish they can leave the town one day to escape from the pollution. But they don’t have money to leave and don’t know where to go.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Of the 2,900 units inspected in 2013 by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, 40 percent was found as violating the environment laws. But they only bore administrative sanctions.

 Hundreds of police will monitor traffic in Paris on Monday after pollution levels prompted the French government to impose major restrictions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At least over 1 tons of fish died in mass in the Nuoc Trong Reservoir in Son Ha District, the central province of Quang Ngai in recent days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local people in Binh Hoa Commune of Giao Thuy district in Nam Dinh province have got panicked after realizing that the local authorities decided to bury pesticide in the rice fields.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The people in Nam Truc district of Nam Dinh province, who earn their living by recycling aluminum, are exchanging their futures for the daily bread.

A lot of people in Mekong River Delta spend billions of dong to build the “castles” to attract salanganes, raising the worries about the environment pollution and bird flu breakout.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Underground water, which provides 35-50 percent of the total water volume provided to urban areas nationwide, has been seriously polluted and decreasing in reserves.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 200 households living in floating villages in Ha Long Bay will be moved inland before Tet, according to Pham Hong Ha, Vice Chairman of Ha Long City People's Committee.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There are the “cancer villages” in Ha Tinh province – the “pesticide land” in the central region.

Being famous as the “lead recycling metropolis” in the north, Dong Mai village in Van Lam district of Hung Yen province is the place where rice is mixed with lead and blood is mixed with lead because of the existence of lead everywhere.

In rainy season, the water rises and inundates houses, sweeping crops away. In dry season, the drought chaps the fields. This is what happens with the people in the lower course of the rivers in Central Highlands, where hydropower plants are located.