October 21, 2011
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. At some point this month, October 2011, a child will be born and the world’s population will have reached seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region; home to 61 percent of the world’s population. If the child is born in the [...]
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July 5, 2011
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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February 4, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese rubber producers have put high hopes in 2010 which they believe will bring prosperity with price expected to increase by 30 percent. The Vietnam Rubber Association, said that it expects to export 750,000 tonnes of rubber in 2010 and reap $1.5 billion in export revenue thanks to a 30 percent price increase. International [...]
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December 19, 2009
Abandoned shrimp ponds in Phuoc Thai Commune in Dong Nai Province. With the waters of Thi Vai River beginning to clear up after MSG-maker Vedan was forced to stop discharging untreated effluents into it, farmers living along its banks decided to shift from breeding fish to shrimp. Still hurting from losses inflicted by Vedanâs pollution [...]
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December 12, 2009
Vedan General Director Yan Kun Hsiang at the meeting Taiwanese MSG maker Vedan on Friday refused yet again to accept full responsibility for damage suffered by the Thi Vai River that experts said was primarily caused by the companyâs discharge of untreated wastewater. At a meeting attended by senior officials of the Vietnam Environment Administration [...]
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November 15, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Hydropower plants in the Central Highlands are destroying the region’s environment, the Natural Resources Minister said in a note to a National Assembly member this week. Discussing the note, a university lecturer and department head added that the power plant projects in question were being constructed without adequate consultation of experts in the [...]
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November 13, 2009
Hydropower plants in the Central Highlands are destroying the regionâs environment, the Natural Resources Minister said in a note to a National Assembly member this week. Discussing the note, a university lecturer and department head added that the power plant projects in question were being constructed without adequate consultation of experts in the field.Minister of [...]
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September 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Enterprises have warned that the high tax on natural resources will have a negative impact on Vietnam’s investment sphere. The Ministry of Finance is compiling the draft law on natural resources taxation, which will be submitted to the National Assembly for ratification and enactment in 2009. The draft law only focuses on making some [...]
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September 3, 2009
LookAtVietnam – High schools have reported that very few students have registered to study under the natural-sciences or social-sciences major curriculums. In the first two school years after the group classification-based education scheme was put into operation on a trial basis, Mac Dinh Chi High School had 530 students who registered for natural sciences major [...]
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June 8, 2009
Decades after the guns fell silent, the devastating environmental aftermath of the chemical war conducted by the US in Vietnam continues to punish the country, a scientist said. âWartime destruction of the natural landscape is nothing new, but the scope of destruction of nature in the Vietnam War is unprecedented in human history,â Vo Quy, [...]
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