Nguyen Thanh Tai, former Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, and four accomplices involved in the case “violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness” have filed an appeal against the judgments which were announced at the first instance trial.

Total food losses in Vietnam are estimated at 8.8 million tons or US$3.9 billion in 2018, equivalent to 2% of Vietnam’s GDP or 12% of the country's agriculture value.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Directorate of Fisheries, in collaboration with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Center for Supporting Green Development (Greenhub), held a workshop on September 25 to tackle the issue of ocean plastic waste in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh.

The People’s Court of HCM City on September 16 opened a first-instance trial against Nguyen Thanh Tai, former Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, and a number of other defendants, on charges of “violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness”.

Vietnam has set a target of having 70-90% of industrial waste controlled by 2025.

Rapid urbanisation and high population density are putting pressure on Ho Chi Minh City in the management and treatment of waste.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is considering revising the Law on Environmental Protection which took effect in 2014.

Climate change mitigation and adaptation, marine waste management, environmentally sustainable cities, and air and water pollution are among cooperation areas targeted by Vietnam and Japan in the time ahead.

International Youth Day 2020, themed “Vietnam we want in 2030: The youth act for a clean environment”, was marked during a ceremony in Hanoi on August 12.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Police Investigation Authority completed its investigation relating to the land plot at 2-4-6 Hai Ba Trung Street in HCM City on July 13 and transferred the case to the Supreme People’s Procuracy.