Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc receives Doctor Tadashi Yamamura in Hanoi on April 11, 2019

 At a meeting in Hanoi on Thursday with Doctor Tadashi Yamamura, UN environmental expert and President of the Japan Environment and Trade Promotion Organization, the Prime Minister praised Japan’s environmental technologies and said Vietnam pays special attention to all issues pertaining to the environment. He asked Japanese experts to help Vietnam treat polluted water in Hanoi and other localities. Mr. Yamamura said Japan has a device with bio-nano technology and a super-rapid processing pace which can be laid at the bottom of the To Lich river to clean the river base. He said Japanese experts have surveyed the river in the last two years in the hope that the modern device will help Vietnam in waste water treatment.