(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Hao Duong, a leather firm hit with record fines for polluting the environment, has been trying to delay payments of fines, saying it has financial difficulties.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - In order to create one megawatt of electricity, Vietnam has to “sacrifice” 10 hectares of forest.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - A number of manufacturing businesses in Vietnam continue to ignore the government’s environmental protection regulations.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - he HCM City Department of Natural Resources and the Environment has imposed a fine of VND6.3 billion, the highest ever, on Hao Duong, a leather company, for discharging untreated waste water into the environment.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The Dak Lak provincial People’s Committee are seeking the government’s permission to build four more cassava starch processing plants, though there are four plants in the locality, which cause serious environment pollution.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Ha Noi Police, on Wednesday, said that about 2,000 boxes containing medicinal drugs that were found in a vacant rice field in Thanh Tri district, had been disposed of illegally.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The strong sales of books and magazines, especially imports, has improved the local market, but higher demand has also brought more smuggled reading materials from illegal publishers and distributors.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Analysts have summarized some of the more popular tricks Chinese businessmen play on Vietnamese farmers. They maintain that, in the aggregate, these tricks harm not just individual farmers, but the Vietnamese economy as well.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai on Tuesday urged the nation's market watch forces to take more drastic measures to curb smuggling and other forms of trade fraud in the second half of this year.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The Ministry of Industry and Trade has asked Vietsovpetro and PetroVietnam to prepare themselves for a possible hacker attack as it is said that international hackers plan to attack the companies’ networks on June 20.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Ho Chi Minh City customs officers seized 39 elephant tusks on Sunday that had been successfully smuggled through several transit airports. The shipment began in Africa, they said.