Posts Tagged ‘ Loc District ’

Canine avengers 

July 16, 2011
Canine avengers 

  Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]

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Foreign Ministry receives ancient document about Hoang Sa Islands

December 16, 2009
Foreign Ministry receives ancient document about Hoang Sa Islands

Thua Thien-Hue province on December 14 handed over a document of the Le Dynasty (1428-1527) about Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands to the Foreign Ministry. The ancient document. In this ancient document, which was written on giay do (do paper), a mandarin named Thuan Duc, who responsible for guarding the Bien Hai river [...]

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Power plant blamed for worsening floods in Quang Nam

October 18, 2009
Power plant blamed for worsening floods in Quang Nam

Water is released at the reservoir of the A Vuong hydro power plant A hydroelectric plant in the central province of Quang Nam released water without warning, making it impossible for the province to take timely measures against flooding, a senior official said on Friday. However, whether the discharge from the A Vuong Hydroelectric Plant [...]

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Logs choke central rivers

October 6, 2009
Logs choke central rivers

Residents of Dai Cuong commune in Quang Nam Province salvage logs from Vu Gia River Tree trunks and sawn logs washed down in the floods in central Vietnam caused by Typhoon Ketsana have jammed rivers and buried floodplains in Quang Nam and Kon Tum provinces. On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of people came from near and [...]

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Lam Dong province halts 10 idle hydro-power projects

August 3, 2009
Lam Dong province halts 10 idle hydro-power projects

The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has decided to revoke the licences of ten pending hydro-power projects which have past their implementation dates. A hydro-power dam in the central Vietnam. Some projects were idle for a very long time, upsetting local residents and governments, for example the Da Khai hydro-power project [...]

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Southern farmers rue counting their chickens

July 15, 2009
Southern farmers rue counting their chickens

Poultry farmers feed their flock of chickens in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh District Farmer Nguyen Huu Cong from the southern province of Dong Nai did not hesitate to increase his flock of chickens three times to 6,000 as meat prices began rising at the beginning of this year. He borrowed VND250 million (US$14,000) [...]

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Quang Nam forests destroyed with impunity for rubber, coal

July 14, 2009
Quang Nam forests destroyed with impunity for rubber, coal

Parts of a coal-mining site in Dai Loc District, Quang Nam Province that used to be full of trees. Residents of a commune in the central province of Quang Nam are reduced to helpless anger as they watch surrounding forests destroyed illegally by a rubber company. To rub salt in their wounds, the company admits [...]

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Central province provides mobile ID card service for the needy

May 4, 2009
Central province provides mobile ID card service for the needy

Old, sick and disabled people in north central Nghe An Province’s Nghi Loc District have found a “new” identity that offers some important advantages. Police of Nghi Loc District, Nghe An Province, take fingerprints and information from an elder to issue an ID. LookAtVietnam – Old, sick and disabled people in north central Nghe An [...]

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Central province provides mobile ID card service for the needy

May 4, 2009
Central province provides mobile ID card service for the needy

Police of Nghi Loc District, Nghe An Province, take fingerprints and information from an elder to issue an ID. Old, sick and disabled people in north central Nghe An Province’s Nghi Loc District have found a “new” identity that offers some important advantages. They were visited by local police last month to have their fingerprints [...]

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Acute diarrhea outbreak in Dong Nai under control

April 27, 2009

An acute diarrhea outbreak, which occurred in southern Dong Nai Province’s Xuan Loc District and affected more than 500 locals, is now under control officials say. Cao Trong Nguong, director of the southeastern province’s Preventive Health Department, said Sunday that water samples in the area had been taken for testing. As well, blood tests were [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...