January 3, 2010
Waste water flows into the 1,700-metre Ba Bo Canal which crosses five industrial zones in HCM City.LookAtVietnam – Pollution caused by dust, exhaust fumes and noise in HCM City has not declined and is reaching alarming levels, according to a recent survey on the city’s air quality.The report, released by the HCM City Environmental Protection [...]
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November 18, 2009
The recent hike in tap water prices of VND1,000-1,500 per cubic metre in the Cuu Long Delta provinces has forced many poor people in rural areas to use river water. Tap water at more than VND4,000 per cubic metre was high compared to the income of people in rural areas.In May, the Ben Tre People’s [...]
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October 6, 2009
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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September 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam would like to introduce an extraordinary exposé of the lucrative but flagrantly illegal business of ‘bear bile farming’ near Ha Long City published by Tuoi Tre Newspaper recently. Bear bile disguised as ginger tea.Part II: The business of bear farming Part I: Infiltrating a Ha Long bear farm While investigating the bear bile trade along the [...]
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September 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Ha Noi Water Supply Company yesterday, September 16, announced a proposal to increase the safe water fee in the city, in order to offset high production costs. Ha Noi Water Supply Company employees wash down pipes at a water production plant. The company proposes to increase safe water fees to offset production [...]
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August 25, 2009
Sand for export to Singapore is loaded onto a transport barge in the Mekong Delta Vietnamâs prime minister has asked relevant ministries to inspect Mekong Delta sand exports after a local newspaper said exports to Singapore were booming, altering the areaâs water flow and causing environmental damage. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and [...]
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August 24, 2009
The volume of sand exported to Singapore from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in the first half of 2009 was equivalent to the total exports of the last ten years. The many channels of the Mekong river are filled with sand dredging barges. Though the area has long supplied building sand to the Ho Chi Minh City region, [...]
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July 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A District 1 resident in HCM City recently visited a piece of land that he had purchased three months earlier in District 9, only to find it had vanished into thin air. Sand exploitation seems widespread and rapidly increasing in HCM City, causing land erosion in the city.A local official explained hundreds of [...]
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May 13, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Ministry of Industry and Trade has agreed in principle a proposal by PetroVietnam to raise the price of gas next month, which once gets the stamp of approval from the Government will likely trigger a rise in electricity tariff. If gas reaches US$3.55 per million BTU next year, electricity plants will pay [...]
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April 9, 2009
Motorcyclists wear masks in Ho Chi Minh City to reduce inhaling dust and toxic exhaust fumes. The Transport Ministry plans to have motorbikes nationwide tested for compliance with Euro II emission standards in a bid to reduce air pollution. Trinh Ngoc Giao, head of the ministryâs Registration Bureau, said the ministry would submit a proposal [...]
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