Hanoi, June 18 -- Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung identified three major environmental challenges requiring particular attention while chairing a meeting in Hanoi on June 17 to discuss the draft law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection. The pressing concerns comprise persistent environmental hotspots in industrial parks and industrial clusters; increasingly complex air and water pollution in major cities directly affecting public health; and shortcomings in waste management and wastewater treatment across river basins and rural areas that have yet to meet practical requirements. Dung stressed that the revised law should incorporate new approaches aligned with international trends and th...