UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers highlights the importance of raising awareness of the harm air pollution can do to children. Việt Nam News reporter Nguyen Khanh Chi finds out more.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The emerging mass tourism in coastal provinces in recent years has destroyed natural beauty spots at a furious pace.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Scrap warehouses are posing a threat to crowded residential areas in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.

This week, three videos were posted online by a mother in northern Ha Nam Province showing a domestic helper slapping a one-month old infant on her face, head and back, throwing the girl in the air 

The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships' satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back-up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology.

The Son Tra Nature Reserve – the green lung of Da Nang - will turn into a desert, and the world’s biggest population of red-shanked douc langurs will become extinct unless rapid development of hotels and resorts there is not stopped.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mekong Delta provinces face a threat of H5N1 bird flu with the disease season just starting and farmers leaving their ducks to freely feed in fields following the completion of the winter-spring rice harvest.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s marine environment risks being severely polluted due to insufficient protection measures and indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources, marine experts have said.

 Premature deaths from air pollution will continue to rise to 2040 unless changes are made to the way the world uses and produces energy,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Locals in this northern province are concerned about the spontaneous appearance of ports and quays that pose a serious threat to waterway transport safety and disrupt the locals’ lives.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam risks being flooded by imported steel products, warned Nguyen Van Sua, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA),

 VietNamNet Bridge – Not until recent rain and floods claimed 17 lives and caused millions of dollars worth of damage were the landslide and pollution risks taken seriously in the coal producing province of Quang Ninh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts at a seminar here yesterday (August 11) issued warnings about the uncontrolled exploitation of coal in Quang Ninh Province.

An exhibition in the capital will feature 100 photographs of communal houses throughout the north which will showcase the beauty of these structures as well as the threats these face with the advent of modernity.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Erosion in many places in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta has claimed about 500 hectares of land as authorities struggle to find effective answers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Enterprises in Vietnam are faced with rising cyber security threats from malware and other malicious digital viruses due to the prevalence of unlicensed software use.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's struggle with its degrading biodiversity was the top concern expressed by experts at a meeting commemorating International Day for Biological Diversity at Botanical Garden, Ha Noi, on Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Science and Technology Minister Nguyen Quan on Wednesday urged Japanese scientists to further clarify risks of an earthquake at the construction site of the Ninh Thuan 2 nuclear power plant.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The rise in beef imports after tariffs are cut to zero in 2018 under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) is a serious threat for the domestic cattle industry.