December 23, 2011
Pham Van Quan, a lecturer at Hanoi Architectural University’s Environmental Engineering Department, won the third “Green Talents” contest, organized by Germany. A Vietnamese has been named among 20 international young scientists who won a German-initiated international environmental competition, VnExpress reported Wednesday. The newswire quoted the German Embassy in Hanoi as saying that Pham Van Quan, a [...]
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November 8, 2011
Brick-making kilns in the northern province of Phu Tho Vietnam’s government needs to put more investment into trade villages where locals are facing critical environmental pollution threats, lawmakers said at the National Assembly’s session on Monday. Representative Tran Du Lich from Ho Chi Minh City said that Vietnam seems to pay more attention to projects worth [...]
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October 10, 2011
Women plant forests in Vietnam. Vietnam’s environmental performance has been ranked 85th out of 163 countries by a World Bank report, which argues that many natural resources are under threat in the developing nation. With 59 points scored on the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Vietnam is considered doing well in planting forests, water and pesticide [...]
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September 20, 2011
Land-locked neighbor reveals plans to start construction of controversial dam months before regional meeting decides on the issue A handout photo released by the US-based environmental group International Rivers shows construction on the Xayaburi dam’s access road and work-camps has gone ahead despite commitments by the government of Laos in April to temporarily suspend [...]
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September 12, 2011
A tower being built on the Pearl River in Guangzhou. Environmental activists say that Vietnam’s poisoned Dong Nai River could meet the same fate as a heavily toxic river in China if serious measures aren’t taken soon. According to a leaked cable from the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China, to the State Department in Washington [...]
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September 10, 2011
An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan is [...]
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September 3, 2011
Company sends goons to beat up protesters Nguyen Van Tuan was attacked by truck drivers on August 29 after he and others at Da Nang City’s Hoa Lien Commune blocked vehicles from entering a construction site. A survey by Nielsen found environmental concerns in Vietnam has shifted from climate change to environmental pollution. 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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August 9, 2011
50 years after the US began spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam and 36 years after the end of the war, victims suffer as realpolitik considerations offer faint glimmers of hope Teacher Nguyen Ngoc Phuong (C), 31, an Agent Orange victim, walks among other victims during a lesson at a hospice in Vietnam’s Da Nang [...]
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August 9, 2011
Professor Vo Quy Vietnam’s Agent Orange campaign has made the US government start to act, by educating them on the environmental and social impacts in Vietnam, a Vietnamese professor and activist has said.  Professor Vo Quy, lecturer at Vietnam National University-Hanoi and one of the first members of the Vietnam-US Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, [...]
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