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Friday, 18/5/2012, 15h:56:29

Residents in central Hanoi will have access to fresh water all summer long, says Nguyen Nhu Hai, general director of the Hanoi Water Company Ltd.

Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal trade powered by poaching.

Forest fires blamed on the unseasonably hot weather have devastated swathes of forestry and agricultural land across the country.

Illegal sand exploitation is causing serious landslides and damaging farm land along the banks of the Luoc River in Thai Binh Province’s Diep Nong Commune.

The quality of the environment in Vietnam has steadily dropped compared to other nations in the world, according to the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which is compiled by prestigious global environmental centres.

The environmental sectors of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea have agreed to promote cooperation for the period from 2012 to 2015.

The Mekong Delta needs to take prompt and drastic measures to deal with the steadily worsening problem of landslides and erosion, experts warn.

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