January 13, 2012
Rubble of a house that was alleged to be wrongly destroyed by authorities in the northern port city of Hai Phong after a controversial land revocation on January 5. Questions remain unanswered at a Thursday press briefing regarding a controversial land revocation that led to a violent confrontation with farmers in the northern port city of Hai Phong. [...]
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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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July 15, 2011
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has listed the Red-eared slider as an invasive species. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued a list of 33 invasive species of plants and animals found in Vietnam. In a new circular released last week, the ministry defined invasive species as those invading the habitat of or [...]
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July 12, 2011
Tran Van Thanh (left) and a group of foreign experts during a field trip in the Cat Tien National Park. (Photo: Sai Gon Tiep Thi) The director of the Cat Tien National Park, a UNESCO listed biosphere reserve, says he is determined to stand by opinions contrary to state agencies pushing for the development of [...]
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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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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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November 28, 2010
A stretch of beach in Da Nang City Authorities along the central coast are bracing for a shipwrecked Chinese oil tanker to begin leaking, VnExpress reported Saturday. Â Le My Lien, director of the Quang Ngai Department of Natural Resources and Environment, said the province’s agencies are keeping an eye out for residue from an [...]
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November 27, 2010
A scavenger of recyclable items wanders through an industrial zone in central Vietnam. A recent foreign-backed study of Vietnam’s land system found what the people already know: it’s a disaster. A recent study has found that land management corruption has become a “source of social instability” in Vietnam. Experts warn that corruption within Vietnam’s land [...]
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November 15, 2010
The environmental advocacy group Greenpeace has called for the adoption of “readily available” food security solutions instead of hugely problematic ones like genetically engineered rice. “Genetically engineered (GE) rice is sometimes proposed as a solution to the impacts of climate change although there is no evidence that GE crops can play a role in [...]
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January 17, 2010
Smoke rises from two firms in the northern province of Hung Yen at night. Environmental agencies admit companies avoid detection by polluting at night. Vu Thi Nam and all her neighbors have had to seal even the tiniest openings in their homes to prevent industrial dust from seeping in at night.âBut we still canât prevent [...]
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