September 12, 2011
A tower being built on the Pearl River in Guangzhou. Environmental activists say that Vietnam’s poisoned Dong Nai River could meet the same fate as a heavily toxic river in China if serious measures aren’t taken soon. According to a leaked cable from the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China, to the State Department in Washington [...]
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September 3, 2011
Company sends goons to beat up protesters Nguyen Van Tuan was attacked by truck drivers on August 29 after he and others at Da Nang City’s Hoa Lien Commune blocked vehicles from entering a construction site. A survey by Nielsen found environmental concerns in Vietnam has shifted from climate change to environmental pollution. The [...]
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June 22, 2011
A five-year study found that Vietnam spends up to 3 percent of its gross domestic product on mitigating the effects of environmental pollution A woman skims rubbish out of a polluted river in Hanoi. A national environmental report has warned that increasing environmental pollution will hinder Vietnam’s economic growth. Dang Thi Thanh Loan’s sore [...]
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November 8, 2010
Garbage from the Duong Dong River ends up on Phu Quoc sandbeach during low tide Ngo Van Giao wakes up early every day and earns VND20,000 from one hour of fetching plastic garbage from the Duong Dong River in his neighborhood. The 82-year-old said seven or ten people would come after him doing the same [...]
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December 30, 2009
VietNamNetBridge– A construction company has been fined 38 million dong for discharging toxic water on nearby trees. Toxic mud was used to fertilise trees. The Binh Chanh Investment Construction JS Company, the developer behind the Le Minh Xuan Industrial Zone in HCM City, was fined by the Southern Environment Police Agency for polluting the environment. This fine, [...]
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December 18, 2009
The polluted Dong Nai River which supplies water to more than 16 million residents in Southern Vietnam. A proposed project to clean up the waterway has failed to get off the ground. (Photo: SGGP)LookAtVietnam – The Dong Nai River, which provides water for 16 million residents in 12 southern provinces and cities, is slowly dying [...]
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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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December 11, 2009
Many members of the HCMC People’s Council raised suspicion over targets to contain environment pollution as presented by the municipal government, . . . “The city government reported very round figures, but there remains a fact that over 30 rivers and canals around the city were heavily polluted”.The city in a report said it has [...]
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December 5, 2009
The Thi Vai River is virtually âdeadâ, suffocated by nearly 94 million liters of toxic wastewater every day from industrial parks in Dong Nai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau, according to an environment ministryâs report. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said Wednesday it had completed the report evaluating the impacts on farmers of pollution [...]
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December 5, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The city plans to cut electricity and clean water supply to enterprises that discharge untreated wastewater deemed unsafe for daily use of residents. Slum houses beside Tran Xuan Soan Road along the Sai Gon River in HCM City. Wasted water discharged from households and industrial production polluting the river and threatening the life [...]
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