Posts Tagged ‘ Long Thanh District ’

Mummy found in 200-year-old tomb 

September 25, 2011
Mummy found in 200-year-old tomb 

A mummy found inside a wooden coffin at a construction site in Dong Nai’s Long Thanh District (Photo: VNA). Vietnamese scientists found a mummy in an tomb believed to date back more than 200 years ago in the southern province of Dong Nai on Friday. The tomb was found in Cau Xeo area, Long Thanh [...]

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Road builders arrested following fatal accident 

April 9, 2011
Road builders arrested following fatal accident 

  Authorities determined to halt sloppy road construction send a strong message to road builders The road construction site along National Road 51 connecting Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Dong Nai provinces. Police in Dong Nai Province’s Long Thanh District have arrested two officials of Licogi 9.2, the road construction company, for careless construction practices which [...]

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Southern major highway started

October 2, 2009
Southern major highway started

A rendering of section of the Ho Chi Minh City-Dong Nai Province Highway in Dong Nai’s Long Thanh District. Work on the southern region’s second major expressway, which is expected to help boost economic development in the area, will begin in Ho Chi Minh City Saturday. The road through HCMC and neighboring Dong Nai Province, [...]

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Dong Nai authorities admit reservoir project ineffective

March 24, 2009
Dong Nai authorities admit reservoir project ineffective

The Cau Moi Reservoir project in Dong Nai Province was designed to supply around 85,000 cubic meters of water a day to locals and irrigate more than 1,800 hectares of farmland, but is only supplying one company Local authorities in Dong Nai Province Monday admitted a reservoir built for irrigation and industrial use had never [...]

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Millions of dollars later, Dong Nai dam still damaged and unused

March 16, 2009

A dam in a multimillion-dollar irrigation work designed to serve several industrial parks and farmland areas in Dong Nai Province has developed serious leaks and has seen little use after being completed in late 2007. The Cau Moi Reservoir project, invested by a management unit under the southern province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, [...]

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Officials ignore plight of the dispossessed

February 25, 2009
Officials ignore plight of the dispossessed

Vo Van Giac of Dong Nai Province’s Long Thanh District shows his litany of complaints against Vedan Vietnam for polluting his farm by the Thi Vai River. Thousands of people in Dong Nai Province have been struggling to survive since 1994 when pollution from the huge Vedan Vietnam factory began killing the fish in the [...]

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Nearly 4,000 complaints against Vedan Vietnam unsolved

February 11, 2009
Nearly 4,000 complaints against Vedan Vietnam unsolved

The Dong Nai Provincial Farmer Association on February 10 reported to the local authorities about nearly 4,000 petitions from local people against Vedan Vietnam Company’s polluting activities. Diagram of Vedan Factory and its waste water system to the Thi Vai River (photo provided by the Environment Police Agency). According to the association, farmers in the four [...]

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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...