August 28, 2011
Workers at An Nhien cuddly toy factory in HCMC stuff garment waste into the toys. Many teddy bears in Ho Chi Minh City are stuffed with garment waste, discharged mattress, and old spongy materials, which doctors blamed as a major cause of respiratory diseases in children. Â The products target workers and low-income earners, while [...]
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August 23, 2011
Investing in GMOs is the worst decision Vietnam could make at this time, putting its food sovereignty at risk, independent scientists say A Thai organic farmer pretends to be dead after eating GM corn during a protest against the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to Thailand outside the Government House in Bangkok in [...]
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August 14, 2011
Activists worry multinational corporations that produced Agent Orange could perpetrate another ecological disaster through genetically modified organisms Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc (C), 27 years old, and his father Chu Quang Chien (R) who served in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam – Da Nang area from 1971-1975 during the Vietnam War, attend a computer [...]
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July 18, 2011
Two students (in blue) deliver leaflets with information on ways to protect the environment. Three college students from the northern city Hai Phong are walking 1,800 kilometers to Ho Chi Minh City, distributing leaflets providing information about saving natural resources. Â Tran Thang, Nguyen Hong Thai and Tran Son Tung have tried to walk 50 [...]
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July 17, 2011
French artist seeks to create a universal comfort zone Betrant Peret as a DJ at the Esperantopolis 2011, a cultural event featuring a variety of arts, held at the French Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City last month A space, an atmosphere where art interacts with life in a way that everyone is comfortable, [...]
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June 21, 2011
Financial district of Singapore is seen in this photo, taken at night. Glimmers of green hope for Asian cities From the putrid, ever-expanding slums in megalopolises such as Manila to the new Chinese industrial boomtowns, examples of environmental anarchy appear to be exploding across the region. Air pollution, already above World Health Organization standards in [...]
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March 27, 2011
Lovers sit next to lit candles by Hoan Kiem lake during Earth Hour in Hanoi March 26, 2011. Lights went off around the world Saturday as landmark buildings and ordinary homes flipped their switches while the annual "Earth Hour" circled the planet in what was dubbed the world’s largest voluntary action for the environment. In [...]
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March 23, 2011
A man works on the dried-up banks of the Mekong River at a water station in Muang district, Nongkhai province, Thailand, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for a proposed massive hydropower dam on the Mekong River in Laos has been decried as slipshod and incomplete by a non-governmental organization. [...]
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February 20, 2011
Experts still divided on ways to treat turtle too old and special for conservation efforts The badly injured giant soft-shell turtle living in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake, pictured here on February 8, is said to be one of four remaining Rafetus swinhoei specimens in the world. The photograph has initiated a new round of [...]
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November 20, 2010
Expert says shipping raw materials would be a waste of national resources Samples of rare earth compounds are displayed in the showroom of a Chinese company. China now ranks first in the world for rare earth mineral reserves while Vietnam has reserves of some one million tons. Vietnam should acquire the technology to process [...]
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