With its advantages fully recognised, the southern “emerald island” of Phu Quoc off of Kien Giang Province is set to live up to its title of a special administrative-economic zone.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though HCM City and Binh Duong have spent more than a trillion dong (US$46.7 million) in the past eight years to clean up the Ba Bo Canal, the increasing discharge of untreated wastewater

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tay Ninh Province's People's Committee has accepted a petition from the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment to shut down all rubber and cassava processing establishments

 VietNamNet Bridge – The southern province of Binh Duong is cleaning up its environment by adopting stringent industrial pollution regulations and also enforcing them.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has approved a master plan for the building of an extensive drainage and waste water treatment system in residential areas and industrial parks in the Nhue-Day river basin by 2030.