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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June 22, 2011
A five-year study found that Vietnam spends up to 3 percent of its gross domestic product on mitigating the effects of environmental pollution A woman skims rubbish out of a polluted river in Hanoi. A national environmental report has warned that increasing environmental pollution will hinder Vietnam’s economic growth. Dang Thi Thanh Loan’s sore [...]
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January 5, 2010
Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard (HVS) in Khanh Hoa Province has begun using nix grains (copper slag for ship repairs) again. The “mountain” of used nix grains at HVS.Hyundai Vinashin – deplorable wasteHyundai Vinashin to be fined for attempt to dump toxic wasteThe 20,000 tons of nix grains, carried by Atlantic Star from South Korea, were unloaded [...]
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December 13, 2009
The 17th session of the HCM City People’s Council closed Friday with proposals to develop the city’s socio-economic climate in 2010. City’s leaders at the closing session of the People’s Council on Dec. 11, 2009. (Photo: SGGP) LookAtVietnam – The 17th session of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council closed Friday with proposals to develop [...]
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December 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Despite getting its economic act together and recovering from the downturn, HCM City continues to grapple with traffic congestion, a city legislator said. HCM City needs to tackle chronic traffic congestion and environmental pollution.The chairwoman of the People’s Council, Pham Phuong Thao, told the council’s 17th session that the city’s economy was expected [...]
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October 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – National Assembly deputies yesterday, October 28, focused on protecting the environment and how Viet Nam should adapt to climate change. A soil stabilisation forest in Song Cau District’s Xuan Thanh Commune in central Phu Yen Province. Efficiency of a national programme to plant 5 million hectares of forests was one of the matters [...]
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October 3, 2009
A Chinese mother carries her baby for his first hair trim, along a street in Beijing on September 15 One needs to look no further than the river that runs through Shangba to understand the extent of the heavy metals pollution that experts say has turned the hamlets in this region of southern China into [...]
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September 24, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The investor of the Da Phuoc Solid Waste Treatment Complex needs to explain the long delay in completing the US$90 million project The Viet Nam Waste Solution Company is the investor in the 3,000-tonne Da Phuoc waste treatment dump being built in Binh Chanh district. (Photo: TTO)Work on the complex must be completed [...]
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September 15, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Only 10 out of 21 industrial zones in the southern province of Dong Nai have proper waste water treatment systems, Ba made an example of the province’s Thi Vai river, which had been polluted with untreated waste water by thousands of factories and companies along its banks.The director of the department, Nguyen Ngoc [...]
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September 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Approximately 90 per cent of the country’s 2,790 craft villages have violated environmental protection regulations, A brick kiln in District 9’s Long Binh ward in HCM City belches out smoke.“Common among most of these craft villages were contributions to water, air and land pollution,” said head of the department Colonel Nguyen Van Ly [...]
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