November 19, 2011
The fact that Bangkok is struggling with the worst flooding in at least half a century should be a major wake up call for Vietnamese authorities. Ho Chi Minh City is almost in the same position as the Thai capital. Just like Bangkok, the southern metro is located downstream of a big river, the [...]
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October 11, 2011
Construction of the $7.5 billion 200,800-barrel-per-day Nghi Son oil refinery, Vietnam’s second, will start in the last quarter of this year after a half-year delay, state oil and gas group Petrovietnam said on Tuesday. Vietnam’s natural gas output this year is expected to fall 5.7 percent from 2010 to 8.86 billion cubic meters, the [...]
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August 20, 2011
A farmer on the heavily-polluted Ba Cheo Canal in the southern province of Dong Nai. The Vietnamese public has been outraged again by another big environmental scandal. Last Friday the Ministry of Public Security’s environmental police found a waste treatment factory in the southern province of Dong Nai dumping thousands of cubic meters of untreated [...]
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July 9, 2011
Two officers of HCMC Preventive Health Center take water samples from the Saigon River for testing. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Local scientists raised concern yet again over alarming levels of pollution in the Sai Gon River at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. The conference, held by HCMC Department of Science and [...]
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December 6, 2010
A security guard walks past two gas tanks at Nam Con Son Gas Processing Terminal at Dinh Co Area in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. The terminal is partly owned by PV Gas (Photo by TBKTSG Online) Vietnam will have to boost gas imports and ramp up the exploitation of untapped resources to [...]
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November 12, 2010
An PV Oil ship receives products from Dung Quat oil refinery Binh Son Refinery Company, the operator of Dung Quat oil refinery, signed distribution contracts with four state-owned firms on Tuesday. Petrolimex, PV Oil, Petec and Vinapco committed to buy some 4.7 million cubic meters of the products like A92, A95, diesel and FO for [...]
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November 8, 2010
Garbage from the Duong Dong River ends up on Phu Quoc sandbeach during low tide Ngo Van Giao wakes up early every day and earns VND20,000 from one hour of fetching plastic garbage from the Duong Dong River in his neighborhood. The 82-year-old said seven or ten people would come after him doing the same [...]
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January 21, 2010
LookAtVietnam – National oil and gas group, PetroVietnam, has warned that Vietnam should not pin its hopes on discovering big oil and gas fields in the future. In the meantime, demand for oil and gas continues to increase. Forty percent of the total electricity output of Vietnam is generated by gas-run power plants. Therefore, if Vietnam [...]
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January 15, 2010
Illegal loggers and local residents allied with them fought forest rangers in a national park for 10 hours Saturday last week before police could confiscate illegally cut timber the rangers had discovered. Yok Don National Park rangers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak found a car containing around four cubic meters of illegal [...]
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January 9, 2010
Building small refineries such as Dung Quat, which has a capacity of 6.5 million tons, is inefficient, according to PetroVietnam The Dung Quat oil refinery, the countryâs first, has been shut down for a second time due to a broken valve, again delaying its formal handover to the state-owned Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam). [...]
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