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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...

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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...

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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.   Officials of the...

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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 drive back...

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A damaged section of Road 723 in Lam Dong Province. Local authorities have blamed the damaged roads on heavy trucks travelling to and from the controversial Tan Rai bauxite mining plant. Several weeks from now, a controversial bauxite mining plant will process its first alumina batch in the Central Highlands. The project has...

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A mother, whose husband and father have been missing in the tsunami disaster, and her son visit their residencial area where all houses were washed away by the tsunami at Rikuzentakata, in Iwate prefecture on April 2, 2011. Three weeks after watching a massive wave smash into the Fukushima nuclear plant, Hiroyuki Kohno is heading...

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Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) bows as he speaks to tsunami victim Ryoko Otsubo during his visit to an evacuees shelter in Rikuzentakata, after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami April 2, 2011 Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated...

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In a handout picture released by Greenpeace and taken on March 27, 2011 shows a Greenpeace team member holding a Geiger counter displaying radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour in Iitate city, Fukushima Pressure grew on Thursday for Japan to expand an evacuation zone round its stricken nuclear plant where radiation...

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Reactors No. 1 to 4 are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant in Fukushima in this satellite file image, taken and released by DigitalGlobe March 18, 2011 Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after radiation in water at the crippled nuclear power plant reached potentially...

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A Japanese tsunami survivor stands in front of messages displayed on the wall of a relief center in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture. Japanese authorities advised against allowing infants to drink tap water in Tokyo due to raised radiation levels and the United States became the first nation to block some food imports from Japan. The...

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