Competent forces in the central province of Ha Tinh caught a couple suspected of illegally transporting 30 live pangolins in the province’s Huong Son district on July 29.

Forest fires broke out in several locations in the central province of Ha Tinh on June 30, according to local authorities.

Whirlwinds and hail on May 20 caused damage to property and crops in mountainous districts in the central provinces of Ha Tinh and Nghe An.

The Huong Khe District People's Court in the central province of Ha Tinh has recently sentenced six local people to a total of 66 months in prison for violating “regulations on protection of endangered, precious and rare animals”.

Police in the central province of Ha Tinh have busted a ring of people who illegally traded wild animals for meat, saving a total of 215 pangolins from cages.

A 2.3-magnitude earthquake was reported offshore the central province of Ha Tinh on the early morning of October 22, according to the Earthquake Information and Tsunami Warning Centre.

Tropical storm Son Tinh, the third entering the East Sea in 2018, is forecast to make landfall in coastal localities from Thai Binh to Ha Tinh on late July 18, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Two new species of Camellia flowers found in Vu Quang National Park in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh have been entered the Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy.

A tree that is believed to be 1,000 years old was recently discovered in Vu Quang National Park in central Ha Tinh province.

A forest of trees covering several hundred hectares at the foot of Hoanh Son mountain in central Ha Tinh province has come back to life, thanks to the efforts of one man.

Nghe An reported one dead and two missing cases as of 10 am on October 10, as the central province was drowned in downpour, caused by a tropical low pressure system, since the night of October 9.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to develop a marine environment monitoring system in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue.

The central province of Ha Tinh has asked the Government not to resume activities of the Thach Khe iron mine, the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has inspected the waste treatment area and production line of Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Limited Company (FHS) in Ha Tinh province, asking the firm must consider the environmental matter to be a vital factor to the implementation of its large-scale steel project.

The central province of Ha Tinh is working to complete the compensation for units and individuals affected by the marine environment incident before June 30.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has urged four localities affected by marine environmental incident last year to accelerate the disbursement of compensation and complete the process by June 30.

The central province of Ha Tinh has welcomed over 400,000 visitors since early summer this year, according to head of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Tran Sang.

More than 1,500 volunteers collected garbage along Xuan Thanh beach in central Ha Tinh province’s Nghi Xuan district on March 19 following the launching of a beach clean-up campaign.

The red streak that appeared in the waters around the Vung Ang economic zone in the central province of Ha Tinh – the same area still reeling from the consequences of the Formosa toxic spill – was confirmed to have been caused by algal bloom.

The environment ministry has reported the results of an investigation into Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Company’s efforts to tackle the environmental incident it caused in four central provinces.