January 14, 2012
Vietnam aims to raise its coal output to 55-58 million tons in 2015 from an estimated 48.9 million tons this year in an effort to meet demand for fast-growing electricity production, the government said. Output is projected to rise to more than 75 million tons by 2030 thanks to the exploitation of new sites, [...]
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July 7, 2011
The Red River Delta has critical levels of toxic arsenic experts said at a Wednesday conference in Hanoi. Â Research presented at the conference showed arsenic poisoning from naturally occurring arsenic compounds in underground water in many places around the country, especially the Red River Delta provinces of Ha Nam, Hung Yen, Nam Dinh, [...]
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June 27, 2011
Coal mining in the northern province of Quang Ninh. Vietnam, a major coal exporter, imported its first load of the fuel this month. Vietnam imported its first load of coal this month even as it continues exporting large quantities of the fuel. This is irrational and the country should have stopped exporting it years ago, [...]
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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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January 23, 2011
Scientists urge for urgent action as more than one-fourth of water wells in the Red River Delta are contaminated with the carcinogenic chemicals A resident in Vietnam’s Red River Delta shows skin lesions caused by arsenic poisoning. Scientists have warned against an “alarming” contamination of arsenic and other toxic chemicals in the Delta’s groundwater. [...]
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January 21, 2011
Arsenic and other toxic chemicals contaminate drinking water in Vietnam’s Red River Delta including the capital Hanoi, posing a serious health threat to about 7 million people, a study found. About 65 percent of the region’s wells, the main source of drinking water, contain unsafe levels of arsenic, manganese, selenium and barium, according to [...]
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January 25, 2010
Vietnam Electricity (EVN) January 23 began releasing water from the Hoa Binh, Thac Ba and Tuyen Quang hydropower plant reservoirs to provide more water to lower sections of the Red River. Hoa Binh reservoir.LookAtVietnam – Vietnam Electricity (EVN), the largest power group in Vietnam, January 23 began releasing water from the Hoa Binh, Thac Ba and [...]
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January 23, 2010
New luxury tax for alcohol; Metro Cash & Carry to open 12th center in Vietnam; Local textile, garment firms cooperate to boost expansion Beer and other alcoholic drinks will face a special consumption tax of 45 percent until the end of 2012, the General Department of Taxation has said. According to a note sent by [...]
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December 10, 2009
Awareness of labour safety and hygiene among farmers remains low, and has been illustrated by their improper use of toxic chemicals and equipment. According to the Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs’ Preventive Medicine Centre’s deputy head, Tran Thi Ngoc Lan, farmers account for 70 per cent of the total workforce nationwide and regularly [...]
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November 15, 2009
Cu Da is one of only two ancient villages in Hanoi that still offers an ideal place to explore the culture of the Red River Delta But for how long, visitors to the northern village of Cu Da are bound to ask Most of the preparations being made to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the [...]
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