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Mottainai Fair raises environment awareness
03/03/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – The 3RVolunteer Club on Sunday held the third Mottainai Fair at the Children’s Palace to share the concept of Mottainai and promote environmental awareness in Hanoi. People at Mottainai Fair trade used items. Hundreds of people attending...
Relocation of polluting enterprises stalls
02/03/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Capital shortages, difficulties in finding new locations and a lack of initiative by enterprises are some of the reasons behind the incomplete implementation of the city’s plan to relocate polluting companies and production facilities. Anh Son...
River polluter to discuss compo deal with farmers
01/03/2009 05:00
Representatives of the affected farmers in HCM City, Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Dong Nai will discuss compensation with Taiwanese monosodium glutamate manufacturer, Vedan, who allegedly damaged the local residents’ cultivation lands with its untreated waste water....
Hanoi selected to be climate resilient city
27/02/2009 05:00
The World Bank (WB) and its UN partners on Tuesday released a handbook on climate resilient cities in Vietnam. Hanoi has been chosen to pilot a project to support mitigation, management and adaptation of natural disaster risks. has recently begun to suffer...
Seawater encroaches 50 km in land
27/02/2009 05:00
Seawater in the Mekong Delta has penetrated deep into the mainland, according to the Southern Irrigation Science Institute. The Mekong delta is facing the most severe drought and salinity in many decades. Seawater has penetrated upstream in...
Urban Millennium, Vietnam’s environment to be greener & cleaner
26/02/2009 05:00
Many issues relating to the wastewater and waste sectors in Vietnam were discussed during a two day conference in Ha Noi, ‘Challenges in wastewater and waste sectors in Vietnam,’ February 26 and 27. Minister of Construction Nguyen Hong Quan (L) and Mrs...
Waste water still poses hazardous threat
26/02/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam is still faced with inadequate waste water management, a source of numerous avoidable diseases, said Minister of Construction Nguyen Hong Quan. The system of treating waste water and sullage from Cua Ong Coal Sorting Company in Quang...