Saigon green-lights two waste-to-energy plants

As Indonesia struggles with mountains of plastic waste going into landfill, business groups are pushing to overturn restrictions on importing plastic scrap into Southeast Asia's biggest economy.

Officials seem clueless as an overloaded landfill becomes a gargantuan, stinky pollution problem in the Mekong Delta.

Vietnam government has approved an allocation of VND535 billion ($23.3 million) for an ongoing five-year program to curb environmental pollution.

Landfill operators have been threatened with closure unless they clean up their acts.

The city also calls for invesment in modern treatment projects that can handle its large amount of waste.

Authorities in the provincial capital hope to address overflowing landfills with a new waste treatment project.

Properties in some of the most affluent neighborhoods become less desirable due to a pungent odor that has plagued southern districts.

An overpowering smell keeps attacking the senses of thousands of people in Ho Chi Minh City, with no end in sight.

Authorities pinpoint the source of the unbearable odor plaguing southern suburbs.

The waste was uncovered at another landfill near a tourism hot spot in Ha Tinh Province.

Mui Ne, an isolated beach that is one of the top tourist attractions in the south of Vietnam, has been turned into a sickening mountain of garbage.

Da Nang will provide clean water for 3,700 residents and free health insurance for about 2,000 locals living near the seriously polluted Khanh Son landfill site, according to chairman of the city's People’s Committee Dam Quang Hung.

Thousands of tourists and locals who flocked to Con Vanh Beach for the public holiday left behind tons of rubbish.