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Foreign tourists complain about trash, overcrowding in Ha Long Bay

Foreign tourists complain about trash, overcrowding in Ha Long Bay

Foreign tourists are disappointed after visiting UNESCO heritage site Ha Long Bay, saying it is now overcrowded and full of plastic waste.
Chinese apartment tenant lives in pile of trash

Chinese apartment tenant lives in pile of trash

Young Saigonese clean up trash-filled canals

Young Saigonese clean up trash-filled canals

Saigon's downtown flooded with trash after New Year's Eve fireworks

Saigon's downtown flooded with trash after New Year's Eve fireworks

Trash was pilled up along the sidewalks around HCMC's Nguyen Hue walking street and surrounding areas, after the New Year’s countdown and fireworks ended.
January 1, 2023 | 12:19 am PT
HCMC’s much-delayed metro fills with trash, graffiti

HCMC’s much-delayed metro fills with trash, graffiti

With Ho Chi Minh City’s first metro line project dragging on for years, garbage, graffiti and flyers are strewn all over the place.
June 17, 2022 | 05:30 am PT
What does one do, flanked by trashy, indifferent neighbors?

What does one do, flanked by trashy, indifferent neighbors?

Friendly, hospitable people are supposed to be an attractive feature of Vietnamese people. No questioning that, but I do question the civic sense of some of my brethren.
June 13, 2022 | 06:16 pm PT
HCMC residents trash, dirty Thu Thiem urban area

HCMC residents trash, dirty Thu Thiem urban area

Streets, ponds and land plots of HCMC's Thu Thiem, expected to become the most modern area in Southeast Asia, have been turned into open landfills as people trash the place.
May 13, 2022 | 11:29 pm PT
High school vice principal forces students to eat trashed food

High school vice principal forces students to eat trashed food

The vice principal of a high school in the southern province of Ca Mau forced two students to eat food that had been thrown into the trash bin.
April 22, 2022 | 04:23 am PT
Photographers turn images of built-up trash into artistic statements

Photographers turn images of built-up trash into artistic statements

Two Vietnamese photographers hope to use images of trash-filled rivers to raise public awareness about plastic pollution.
February 17, 2022 | 07:00 am PT
Hanoi landfill to get $7.5 mln upgrade

Hanoi landfill to get $7.5 mln upgrade

The larger of Hanoi’s two landfills would be upgraded with leachate ponds and trash dumps at a cost of VND170 billion ($7.48 million), the city People's Committee said.
November 11, 2021 | 07:00 pm PT
Trash collectors wade through life as salaries delayed

Trash collectors wade through life as salaries delayed

A family in Hanoi's Phuc Tho District has barely made ends meet these past seven months as their employer, a trash collection company, delays salary payments.
July 2, 2021 | 10:00 pm PT
HCMC garbage collectors find going hard amid Covid

HCMC garbage collectors find going hard amid Covid

On a sizzling hot summer day in HCMC, environmental workers in full protective suits drive into a trash dump at a Covid-19 field hospital.
June 8, 2021 | 05:30 am PT
Russian swimmer collects trash on Phu Quoc

Russian swimmer collects trash on Phu Quoc

A video depicting a Russian woman cleaning up a beach on Phu Quoc, Vietnam's largest island, has generated over 2.4 million views.
March 24, 2021 | 11:00 pm PT
Polluted Saigon canal drives citizens to the brink after two decades

Polluted Saigon canal drives citizens to the brink after two decades

A cleanup of the Xuyen Tam Canal in Saigon proposed 20 years ago never took place, and an unbearable stench assails the thousands of people living around it.
March 22, 2021 | 04:43 pm PT
HCMC firms to spend $261 mln on environmental projects

HCMC firms to spend $261 mln on environmental projects

Two HCMC-owned firms said Tuesday they will spend around VND6 trillion ($261 million) in the next five years on environmental projects.
February 24, 2021 | 05:00 am PT
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