The government confirmed Thursday’s haul and also announced a separate seizure of 8.3 tonnes of pangolin scales from “an African country” in the northern Haiphong port earlier this month.
Category: Viet Nam
HCM City seeks advice from smart-city developers in Asia
HCM City, which aims to be a smart city by implementing IoT, AI and Big Data, faces a number of challenges such as flooding, traffic jams, inadequate infrastructure and limited resources for development.
In Vietnam’s booming energy sector coal reigns, but renewables play catch-up
Vietnam has forecast power generation will need to rise from about 47,000 megawatts (MW) currently to 60,000 MW by 2020 and 129,500 MW by 2030.
Circus performance calls on people to protect environment
The show features characters from popular Vietnamese fairy tales like Hang Nga and Cuoi about people who live on the moon and are suffering from air pollution caused by those who live on earth.
HCM City to reduce plastic waste
The project aims to have at least 70 per cent of plastic waste of the 582 tonnes per day of domestic waste collected by 4,000 private garbage collectors for recycling.
Increasing ecosystem carbon is good for species, says new study
The research (including Laos and VN) confirmed that more carbon generally means more biodiversity and the other way around.
88 solar power plants in VN to start commercial operation In June
As of April 23, only four solar power plants in Vietnam had started commercial operation, but the number rose to 27 by May 17. The additional 61 solar power plants in June are expected to generate a total capacity of 2,000MW.