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A pipe discharges wastewater into a river in Dong Nai. Vietnam southern industrial hub Dong Nai has invested more than US$301,800 into environment protection projects until 2015.   The money will also be used to reduce environmental pollution at industrial zones and urban areas in the province.   A Vietnam News Agency report...

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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...

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  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...

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The Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A dams are planned to be built on the Dong Nai River. A group of scientists have sent a petition to the Vietnamese parliament asking that two planned hydropower projects on the Dong Nai River be reconsidered due to the environmental risks they pose, a local newspaper reported. The...

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Scientists say two upcoming dam projects could badly damage the Cat Tien National Park ecosystem. The investor of two controversial hydropower projects planned near a protected jungle in southern Vietnam has admitted the dams would affect the jungle’s biodiversity, but maintained that they are needed...

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A man injects a chemical solution into a jackfruit to make it ripen quicker Fruit farmers in southern Vietnam are injecting their produce with chemicals to make them ripen quicker and go rotten slower.   Orchard owners and fruit dealers — particularly those dealing in jackfruit and durian – have...

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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...

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  With hydropower running amok in this country, local critics of neighboring dam projects are throwing stones in a glass house A view of the Cat Tien National Park, where two planned hydropower projects, if built, would encroach on around 140 hectares of forest. Conservationists fear...

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A dam on the Dong Nai River A group of scientists who made a field trip to the area near Cat Tien National Park where two hydropower projects are planned said Thursday environment impact assessments for them could have been made up. The scientists from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology’s Institute of Tropical...

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UNESCO listed Cat Tien National Park as a world biosphere reserve. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is seeking the government’s approval to build two hydropower plants near Cat Tien National Park in the southern province of Dong Nai. Under the proposal, the Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A plants will encroach...

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