Canal cleanup project to be completed in Sept
	Friday,  February 3,2012,22:23 (GMT+7) HCMC – The Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Canal sanitation project will be finished by September 2 as the World Bank has agreed to disburse all funding for the project by this June.

ECODIGM to build medical wastewater treatment facility
	Monday,  December 26,2011,21:32 (GMT+7) HCMC – The HCMC Department of Science and Technology last Saturday signed a cooperation agreement with South Korea’s EDODIGM Co. to build wastewater treatment facilities at hospitals in the city.

Afforestation joint venture formed in Phu Yen
	Thursday,  December 15,2011,21:39 (GMT+7) HCMC – Truong Thanh Oji Afforestation Co. Ltd. (TTO), a joint venture between Vietnam’s Truong Thanh Furniture Corporation and Japanese-owned Oji Paper Co. Ltd., debuted on Wednesday in Phu Yen Province with an aim to develop some 18,000 hectares of material forest in the central province.

Polluting titanium exploiters suspended operation
	Tuesday,  December 13,2011,20:50 (GMT+7) HCMC – The government of Binh Thuan Province has decided to suspend the titanium exploitation activities of three enterprises for violating the regulations on environment and mining.

City lacks gusto to shift pollution-causing firms
	Friday,  December 9,2011,23:19 (GMT+7) HCMC – The program to relocate pollution-causing production facilities to outer districts of HCMC is a long way from completion.

E5 petrol distribution hampered
	Wednesday,  November 23,2011,21:20 (GMT+7) HCMC – Local gasoline enterprises are facing difficulties in convincing filling stations to sell E5 bio fuel due to lack of specified incentives for trading, resulting in a modest distribution system of less than 150 points of sale across the country.

FIEs honored for energy efficiency drive
	Wednesday,  November 23,2011,21:12 (GMT+7) HCMC - Best performing foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) who have successfully applied solutions in their businesses for the sake of sustainable development were honored in the Saigon Times Top 40 Awards-Green Values 2010 ceremony in HCMC on Tuesday.

Vietnam yet to have standards for green buildings
	Thursday,  November 17,2011,23:05 (GMT+7) HCMC – Vietnam still has no standard available to assess green buildings in urban areas and high-rise constructions, said the Vietnam Architects Association.

Two polluters suspended operation
	Thursday,  November 10,2011,20:42 (GMT+7) HCMC – The city’s environment authority on Wednesday forced two enterprises to stop operations of those workshops that have polluted the environment for a long time.

Loose control blamed for economic zones’ pollution
	Tuesday,  November 8,2011,20:49 (GMT+7) HANOI – National Assembly’s deputies on Monday lamented the worsening pollution at economic zones nationwide, blaming the overheated development of such zones coupled with the loose management on the part of the Government.