December 5, 2011
Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in the central province of Quang Nam. Initial official surveys have concluded that a hydropower reservoir’s operation has caused continuous tremors that have terrified locals in the northern province of Quang Nam since the end of last year. However, at a meeting with local authorities on Thursday, Tran Tuan Anh, [...]
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October 15, 2011
Unprecedented move against Chinese contractor not easy, but ‘wise’, local firm says Vietnam’s state-owned Construction Corporation No.1 has decided to end its contract with a Chinese supplier due to poor performance at a major hydropower project in the Central Highlands. Beijing IWHR Corporation was terminated from the contract to supply and install the main [...]
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September 10, 2011
A file photo taken just downstream of the proposed site for the Xayaburi dam. Thailand doesn’t actually need the power the massive hydroelectric dam will create, experts have said. Laos plans to start construction this year on the $3.8 billion Thai-financed Xayaburi hydropower plant on the Mekong River after changing the design to placate [...]
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September 4, 2011
A woman sits at her shop selling generators in downtown Hanoi. Last week, Vietnam’s ninth national conference on nuclear power wrapped up in the south central province of Ninh Thuan with local and international experts pointing out many factors that pose risks to the country’s first atomic power plants scheduled to begin construction in 2014. [...]
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September 1, 2011
Dung Quat produced more than 3.3 million tons of oil products in the first seven months Vietnam’s Dung Quat Refinery restarted Friday, following a shutdown for maintenance that ended earlier than expected. State-owned oil and gas group PetroVietnam stopped the 130,000-barrel-a-day refinery on July 15 for scheduled maintenance, which was scheduled to last through mid-September. [...]
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August 9, 2011
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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August 9, 2011
Sewage flows from a sluice gate of Sonadezi Corporation's waste treatment plant into a canal that runs into the Dong Nai River. Fishermen living near the waste treatment plant of state-owned Sonadezi Corporation in southern Vietnam have accused the company of hurting their livelihoods by dumping untreated sewage into the river. Last Thursday, after observing [...]
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August 6, 2011
State utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN) group has awarded a $1.3 billion contract to a consortium of Chinese companies to build a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam’s southern region, the official Vietnam News Agency reported on Friday. EVN signed the engineering, procurement and construction contract with the Chengda-Dec-Swepdi-Zepc consortium on Friday to build the 1,245 [...]
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July 4, 2011
Professor Bui Ngoc Chau introduces a project to produce Vietnam's first microchip plant in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday. The first microchip plant of Vietnam will be the first step in turning Ho Chi Minh City into a semiconductor hub in the country and the region, experts said at a recent conference. Â Officials [...]
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June 28, 2011
A man paddles his wooden boat nearby the Bataan Nuclear Power plant in Morong town. In a fresh but ambiguous take on ecotourism, travelers in the Philippines can visit a remote turtle sanctuary and then venture into the heart of a nearby nuclear power plant. If tourists feel too weary to make the three-hour bus [...]
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