December 1, 2009
Nearly 90 golf courses will have replaced natural landscapes in Vietnam by 2020, according to a zoning plan recently approved by the Prime Minister. The new plan, which envisions 89 golf courses, is a reduction from the 116 that had been planned by the middle of this year. Nineteen golf courses are already in operation [...]
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September 3, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Only two of 15 golf course projects in the southern province of Binh Thuan have become operational. The remaining, which have been licenced since 2003, are still inactive. Golf course or titan exploration projects?Most of the golf courses in Binh Thuan are located on good sites along the coast, which is famous [...]
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September 1, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Prodded by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Hanoi has considerably scaled back plans for golf course construction. Hanoi will have eight golf courses. Hanoi to reject ten golf course projectsExpanded Hanoi has 18 golf course projectsNA deputies decry use of golf courses to build villasDeputy proposes raising taxes on estate developments ‘disguised’ as golf [...]
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August 23, 2009
The glut of steel-making projects is a downside to decentralisation LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s foreign direct investment management decentralisation policy has contributed to the attraction of a greater FDI inflow into the country since it took effect in 2007. However, a dearth of master plans and capable local authorities is putting the policy under the question [...]
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August 12, 2009
A golfer tees off at the Van Tri Golf Club in Hanoi. The Vietnamese government could revoke the licenses of 10 golf courses in Hanoi if it approves a recently announced plan by the cityâs Peopleâs Committee. The municipal Peopleâs Committee said the 10 projects are localed in populous areas where displaced households would find [...]
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August 11, 2009
Of 19 golf course projects in Hanoi, four projects that would claim large areas of rice field and crop area have been singled out for special investigation. The model of Tuan Chau entertainment centre and ecological tourism zone in Ba Vi district, Hanoi, which is designed on 198.2 hectares of land. Expanded Hanoi has 18 golf [...]
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July 13, 2009
Of 3401 projects totaling 33,143 hectares of land licenced from 2002-2008, over 500 projects are considered “idle” in various aspects, says Hanoi City Vice Chairman Vu Hong Khanh. Thousands of hectares of land in Hanoi is fallow. For nearly nine percent of the 3401 projects, site clearance delays were the major reason for the slow implementation. [...]
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July 7, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – The debate over how many golf courses Vietnam really needs continues to bubble. Some 166 golf courses covering 52,000 hectares are open or under development to serve around 5000 golfers. There’s been a boom in golf course development in Vietnam, particularly since 2005, when provinces were delegated the power to approve investment projects. [...]
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July 7, 2009
As many as 166 golf courses covering 52,000 hectares of land serve around 5000 golfers in Vietnam. Each golfer has over 10 hectares of land for entertainment. Meanwhile, each person in the northern delta has only 360 sq.m of land for planting rice on average. The National Assembly’s Committee for Science, Technology and Environment vice [...]
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June 27, 2009
Golf course projects in Hanoi that require rice fields to be displaced must be scrapped, senior officials of Hanoiâs Party Committee said Friday. The stoppage will also apply to golf courses in populous areas where displaced households would find it difficult to get jobs, and locations that are politically, culturally, socially and spiritually sensitive, the [...]
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