December 14, 2011
The truck overturning in the north-central province of Nghe An on December 7, killing ten and injuring five others A vice director of a nature reserve in the central province of Nghe An has become the fifth person to be arrested as police investigate the timber truck overturn killing 10 and injuring five others last week. [...]
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September 20, 2011
A traffic police officer stops trucks at a mountain pass in Ha Tinh Province on July 24. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Bribing traffic cops to get away with driving overloaded trucks or trucks carrying illegal products is common practice among drivers on highways and roads across the country. A Tuoi Tre report says the situation is [...]
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September 5, 2011
Vietnamese authorities have rejected as "wrong" the accusation by a Britain-based organization that the country has been using illegal timber for furniture exports. The denial was made at a press briefing by officials from the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association and Vietnam Administration of Forestry from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. [...]
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August 8, 2011
Local exporters will have to cope with more non-tax trade barriers while other countries try to limit imports and protect production as the global economic recession continues. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Le Danh Vinh said trade remedies would be diverse and nuanced as importers impose more barriers relating to quality standards, export [...]
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April 21, 2011
Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Tuesday sentenced the mastermind of a timber smuggling operation to 16 years in jail. Nguyen Van Hoa, deputy director of Kim Loi Limited Company based in neighboring Binh Duong Province, along with seven other defendants were found guilty of smuggling 93 containers of protected timber to China. [...]
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January 15, 2011
Forest ranger Huynh Quang Hung displays the blood-stained shirt he was wearing during his assault Four forest rangers from the Central province of Quang Nam remained in critical conditions last week after being assaulted by a team of illicit loggers. Dinh Van Hong, Nguyen Van Son, Huynh Quang Hung, Bui Trong Thanh and Le Huy [...]
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January 15, 2010
Illegal loggers and local residents allied with them fought forest rangers in a national park for 10 hours Saturday last week before police could confiscate illegally cut timber the rangers had discovered. Yok Don National Park rangers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak found a car containing around four cubic meters of illegal [...]
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January 8, 2010
Forest wardens in the central-coast province of Khanh Hoa seized around 14 cubic meters of illegally logged timber in incidents Monday. Wardens and traffic police first seized more than 1.7 cubic meters of cho chi (Parashorea stellata) timber, in a traffic stop that morning.The car driver, whose name was not yet made available at the [...]
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December 25, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s woodlands face a new foe. It’s not illegal deforestation, the expansion of hydro-power projects, or the establishment of coffee or rubber farms – it’s bee keeping. Chuong and a bee house made of waste materials. But one man is trying to save the woods and boost beekeepers and he has an incredible new, [...]
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November 14, 2009
Eye and skin diseases have hit tens of thousands of households in central Viet Nam two weeks after Typhoon Mirinae swept through on the tail of storms Palma and Ketsana. Workers from HCM City’s Red Cross hand out books to storm-affected students at An Vinh Primary School in Ly Son island district in Quang Ngai [...]
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