Last updated: Saturday, 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...
Last updated: Wednesday, 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...
Last updated: Friday, March 18, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years.
For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the...
Last updated: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
As dangerous exotic animals like red-eared turtles and red swamp crayfish have appeared in Vietnam, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Environment have joined hands to enforce animal regulations.
VnnNews – As dangerous exotic animals like red-eared turtles and red swamp crayfish have appeared in Vietnam, the Ministry of...
Last updated: Friday, March 19, 2010
A number of National Assembly deputies yesterday, March 18, recommended a tender process for the exploration and exploitation of natural resources.
Trucks transport coal at a coal mine in Quang Ninh Province.“This is a necessary regulation to overcome the poor management mechanism for minerals exploitation,” he said.Minister of...
Last updated: Monday, March 15, 2010
One hundred seventy-four past and present officials are implicated in an unfolding land scandal in Long An province, Tuoi Tre has reported. Government inspectors are preparing their report.
Along this canal are plots of land illegally allocated to Long An province and district officials.< /> In 2005 Long An authorities punished many...
Last updated: Saturday, November 14, 2009
Groundwater levels have sunk 17 meters over a decade while much of the supply has been contaminated with arsenic.
Farmers fix an underground water pump they use to water their shrimp farm in the Mekong Delta.The over-exploitation of groundwater will push the Mekong Delta and southeastern provinces into a critical water shortage over the next...
Last updated: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The regular five-year inventory of Ha Noi’s land has been scheduled to begin on January 1 by Ha Noi’s People’s Committee, but it will be bigger than all previous surveys.
The inventory, which will be mapped out in detail at the same time, will take about eight months to complete and will include all the land in the expanded...
Last updated: Friday, October 2, 2009
VnnNews – Every household in HCM City should be committed to direct participation in keeping the surrounding environment clean, city officials said yesterday, October 1.
Residents grow trees and clean the pavements in a resettlement zone in Tan Thoi Nhat ward in District 12.This commitment would be included in the criteria to be recognised...
