January 18, 2012
After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District. Vuon’s relatives reportedly set mines and shot at police officials and soldiers revoking their farmland under a [...]
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December 14, 2011
An unexploded bomb unearthed in the garden of a resident’s house in the north-central province of Quang Tri, which has recorded the highest number of deaths and injuries caused by unexploded bombs and landmines The Americans lost 58,000 lives in the Vietnam War. Vietnamese have lost 42,000 lives to the war after it ended [...]
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November 21, 2011
Pu Mat National Park and the Pu Huong and Pu Hoat nature reserves are the core zones of the UNESCO-recognized Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, at 1.3 million hectares the largest such reserve in Southeast Asia. The park, whose name means high slope in the language of the Thai tribe, is located in the [...]
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October 7, 2011
This picture, taken on October 5, shows a Vietnamese farmer showing a damaged sheaf of rice at his flooded rice field in Vinh Dien Commune, Giang Thanh District, Kien Giang Province of Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Massive floods have ravaged vast swathes of Asia’s rice bowl, threatening to further drive up food prices and adding to [...]
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October 7, 2011
Vietnam will lose around 300,000 hectares of rice fields to urbanization, industrial and service activities in the next 10 years if a government plan is approved by the National Assembly next month. The government has submitted the plan on land use zoning until 2020 to the National Assembly’s Economic Committee. It will be submitted to lawmakers [...]
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August 23, 2011
The Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A dams are planned to be built on the Dong Nai River. A group of scientists have sent a petition to the Vietnamese parliament asking that two planned hydropower projects on the Dong Nai River be reconsidered due to the environmental risks they pose, a local newspaper reported. [...]
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August 5, 2011
A man walks past a factory at the Thang Long Industrial Park outside of Hanoi. Vietnam should only build industrial parks when and where they’re needed, Le Quoc Dung, vice chairman of the National Assembly’s Economic Committee, tells Thanh Nien Weekly in an interview. Thanh Nien Weekly: Why are so many industrial parks not full? [...]
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July 24, 2011
A man uses his mobile phone in Lenin Park, Hanoi. Many parks across Vietnam have been taken legally or illegally for projects to build hotels and trade centers. While many countries in the world are currently working to restore green spaces with more trees and parks in their metropolitan cities, Vietnam seems to be bucking [...]
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July 24, 2011
With hydropower running amok in this country, local critics of neighboring dam projects are throwing stones in a glass house A view of the Cat Tien National Park, where two planned hydropower projects, if built, would encroach on around 140 hectares of forest. Conservationists fear that the two planned dams would totally transform the [...]
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July 15, 2011
Scientists and local residents observe an old five-leaved pine in Lam Dong Province's Bidoup – Ba Mountain National Park. Lam Dong Province is using environmental protection fees collected from investors of Central Highlands hydropower plants to pay an ethnic minority group to protect a major national park from poachers, criminal loggers and illegal development.  Managers of Bidoup – Ba [...]
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