November 26, 2011
Vietnam’s inflation slowed for a third month in November, and the central bank signaled it may consider lowering interest rates. Consumer prices rose 19.83 percent from a year earlier, after climbing 21.59 percent in October, the General Statistics Office said in Hanoi Friday. The State Bank of Vietnam has room to cut policy rates [...]
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August 23, 2011
Investing in GMOs is the worst decision Vietnam could make at this time, putting its food sovereignty at risk, independent scientists say A Thai organic farmer pretends to be dead after eating GM corn during a protest against the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to Thailand outside the Government House in Bangkok in [...]
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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 16, 2011
A dam on the Dong Nai River A group of scientists who made a field trip to the area near Cat Tien National Park where two hydropower projects are planned said Thursday environment impact assessments for them could have been made up. The scientists from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology’s Institute of Tropical [...]
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May 4, 2011
A smoker in September 23 Park in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The government is assessing public opinion on a draft law that would significantly limit smoking in public places. Public health officials say a ban on smoking in public places would be a ‘historic’ step; smokers doubt it will be enforced. Tuan Anh, [...]
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April 24, 2011
Decision deferred on Xayaburi Dam, environmentalists say the project should be canceled People bathing in the Mekong River in Nong Khai Province in Thailand. Downstream riparian nations Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos have failed to reach an agreement on construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam unilaterally pursued by Laos. The Mekong River has gained [...]
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April 16, 2011
Mekong Delta fertility at risk, experts warn, as they reiterate calls to cancel plans to build the Xayaburi Dam in Laos A farmer feeds his cows on a dry riverbank in the Mekong Delta. Environmentalists have called for the cancellation of the first dam planned on the lower reaches of the Mekong River, saying [...]
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March 23, 2011
A man works on the dried-up banks of the Mekong River at a water station in Muang district, Nongkhai province, Thailand, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for a proposed massive hydropower dam on the Mekong River in Laos has been decried as slipshod and incomplete by a non-governmental organization. [...]
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February 25, 2011
Farmer Virapan Tipsuna poses for a photograph in a dried-up irrigation canal in a rice field in Baan Nard village, Nongkhai province, Thailand in 2010. Thailand appears to be the region’s last hope in opposing an environmentally disastrous hydropower dam in northern Laos. Environmental activists are hoping that Thailand will put the breaks on Laos’ [...]
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February 3, 2011
Wal-Mart’s lengthy struggle to open in New York City has hit fresh problems — a controversial report that said America’s biggest discounter does not just sell cheap, it makes neighborhoods poorer. The report concludes that Wal-Mart, the biggest US private employer, kills jobs rather than creates them, drives down wages and is a tax [...]
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