VietNamNet Bridge – Since the day hydropower plants sprung up in the highland, lowland people have been living in constant anxiety. They have lost the land for agriculture production, faced drought in dry season and floods in rainy months.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local people fear that the Xuyen Moc forest in Binh Chau – Phuoc Buu sanctuary would become empty one day if the illegal lumberjacks cannot be stopped.

VietNamNet Bridge – The volume of toxic chemicals that the pesticide company Nicotex Thanh Thai buried in its campus is estimated at tens of tons, dozen times higher than the figure that the company has declared.

 The police have arrested seven offenders who operated a large-scale online gambling website in HCM City, with accounts worth hundreds of billions of VND.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment sent three officers to central Thanh Hoa Province to direct the excavation of expired chemicals and pesticides dumped by Nicotex Thanh Thai Joint Stock Company.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The loosened management over the mineral exploitation activities in the last 40 years has made Vietnamese poorer and the living environment worse.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Nang River, which was green, romantic and peaceful, has turned muddy because of the gold mining activities.

The Cau River, which is considered the means of support for northern people as it provides water to millions of people in the provinces of Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang and Hai Duong in the lower course, is getting depleted and polluted.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A big amount of pesticide has been found under the ground in Thanh Hoa province in the central region. Scientists have also warned about the many tons of pesticide still under the earth in many other localities.

 VietNamNet Bridge - People in Thanh Hoa broke into a polluting factory, dug up many chemical tanks buried under the ground and discovered numerous bottles of expired pesticides in the factory campus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 400 households with 1,900 people in Dien Ngoc Commune in Dien Chau District, Nghe An Province, have lived for five years surrounded by pollution from seafood processing enterprises.

VietNamNet Bridge – The dissolved oxygen (DO) content in the Saigon River water is very low while the contents of ammonia, manganese, microorganism and suspended solid are getting higher, indicating that the river is being seriously polluted.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The four-month-old Mao Khe Thermal Power Plant in northern Quang Ninh Province's Dong Trieu District is said to be polluting the environment.

After two years carrying out the program to reduce environmental pollution in canals and rivers in HCM City, the water of Saigon River and many canals has been improved but they are in danger of being polluted again.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of production workshops have been relocated out of the inner city under a program initiated by the HCM City local authorities.

People in Duy Tan, Hai Duong province laid a siege to a chemicals plant in the locality for one month, because they believed the plant was the culprit that caused the serious pollution to the environment and the death of tens of local people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The land here is as black as charcoal, while the documents about the land have been marked “confidential.” The strange land area is in Tien An Commune of Tien Phuoc district in the central province of Quang Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoians fear that the West Lake and Truc Bach, the two lakes considered as the symbols of Hanoi, would disappear one day as a result of the private business boom.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pollution from a porcelain factory has raised concerns among residents in the northern province of Phu Tho's Phu Tho Town.

It is estimated that 60-65 percent of the nitrogen fertilizer has not been absorbed by plants. Millions of tons of waste from livestock farms and 90 percent of solid waste has been discharged to the rural environment every year without treatment.