Posts Tagged ‘ The Commune ’

Farmers lodge complaints, demand compensation from polluting firm 

August 9, 2011
Farmers lodge complaints, demand compensation from polluting firm 

Farmers in Tan An Commune submit complaints about the Sonadezi Corporation at the commune People's Committee office. Eleven households in the southern province of Dong Nai lodged complaints on Monday against the state-owned Sonadezi Corporation for damaging their seafood farms by discharging sewage into a local river. The farmers in Tam An Commune, Long Thanh [...]

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Junk yard village trades public health for profits 

August 5, 2011
Junk yard village trades public health for profits 

   A man removes parts of a motorbike tire for recycling, a lucrative job at Te Lo village in Vinh Phuc Province Salvaging vehicle parts has brought good money to Te Lo village in the northern province of Vinh Phuc. But the business has taken a serious toll on public health. In 1995, people in [...]

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Officials pass the buck as illegal dredging pushes relic to river edge 

July 5, 2011
Officials pass the buck as illegal dredging pushes relic to river edge 

Phan Dong Temple in Quang Ninh Province. The temple is part of a national relic that sand dredging has been pushing to the Nhu Nguyet river. Illegal sand dredging has been pushing a national historic site in northern Vietnam to the edge of a local river while the authorities either ignorant or unwilling to do [...]

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Preservation suffocation 

February 28, 2011
Preservation suffocation 

  Red tape and a lack of funding have reduced Vietnam’s first national heritage village to a decaying tourist trap while officials near Hue argue that stalled preservation plans should be abandoned in two villages Harvest day in Duong Lam Village Six years ago, the people of Duong Lam Village had the esteemed honor of [...]

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Where clouds hang out 

December 24, 2010
Where clouds hang out 

  If ever there was a vantage point for cloud-watchers, it would be Y Ty. At more than 2,000 meters above sea level, leaning on the Nhu Cu San Mountain, Y Ty Commune in the northern province of Lao Cai’s Bat Xat District is a favorite place for clouds to hang out. The place is [...]

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Poor farmers given diseased cows as welfare support 

December 15, 2010
Poor farmers given diseased cows as welfare support 

An animal health official checks a cow in Quang Ngai Province Many poor households in the central region’s Quang Ngai Province have discovered the cows they were given as poverty support are infected with the foot-and-mouth disease, VnExpress said Monday.   Animal health officials in Tinh Hoa Commune, Son Tinh District have been busy in recent [...]

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Long An digs itself into a huge hole

December 25, 2009
Long An digs itself into a huge hole

The southern province of Long An is fast becoming a barren land because its most precious resource has been over exploited for building industrial parks. Ben Luc Industrial Park in southern Long An Province. The province now has 20 industrial parks with a combined area of more than 7,600 ha in addition to dozens of [...]

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More to qualify for aid with redefinition of poverty line

December 15, 2009
More to qualify for aid with redefinition of poverty line

More than 6 million disadvantaged people in Viet Nam will be able to receive the Government’s financial support if the proposed poverty line is applied in 2011. Farmers in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum grow coffee seedlings.This move means the State coffers will have to subsidise basic living costs for 16 million people [...]

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Dams leave farmers landless and hungry

December 14, 2009
Dams leave farmers landless and hungry

A house with a broken staircase at a resettlement village for residents displaced by the A Vuong hydropower plant in Quang Nam Province. LookAtVietnam – Thousands of Quang Nam Province residents have been left unemployed and hungry after losing their farmland to hydroelectric projects.  “They have no income after a year of government support ended,” [...]

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Dams leave farmers landless and hungry

December 13, 2009
Dams leave farmers landless and hungry

A house with a broken staircase at a resettlement village for residents displaced by the A Vuong hydropower plant in Quang Nam Province. Thousands of Quang Nam Province residents have been left unemployed and hungry after losing their farmland to hydroelectric projects. “They have no income after a year of government support ended,” said Doan [...]

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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...