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Vietnamese struggle with severe pollution in cities

Vietnamese struggle with severe pollution in cities

Nguyen Phuong Linh vacuums her house in Hanoi twice a day and uses a clothes dryer to filter dust particles ever since air quality deteriorated to “very unhealthy” levels.
Woman sells 4 houses, flees Hanoi to escape haze

Woman sells 4 houses, flees Hanoi to escape haze

Why tourists don't come back to Vietnam

Why tourists don't come back to Vietnam

Emission fees for vehicles impractical: ministry

Emission fees for vehicles impractical: ministry

The proposal to collect emission fees from vehicles is impractical, especially for motorbikes, an essential means of transport for low-income people, the finance ministry said.
December 25, 2023 | 12:57 am PT
Company fined $26,700 for sludge incident

Company fined $26,700 for sludge incident

The Lao Cai People’s Committee in northern Vietnam has fined a company VND650 million ($26,776) following a sludge leakage incident that affected over 100 families.
December 12, 2023 | 05:30 pm PT
Toxic wastewater leaks terrorize Da Nang neighborhoods

Toxic wastewater leaks terrorize Da Nang neighborhoods

Wastewater seeping off the Khanh Son landfill in Da Nang has invaded a local canal that is now poisoning residential neighborhoods in Lien Chieu District.
November 30, 2023 | 07:59 pm PT
Mud from Da Nang industrial cluster invades homes, upends lives

Mud from Da Nang industrial cluster invades homes, upends lives

Mud from an industrial cluster in Da Nang has been invading homes during heavy rains, damaging belongings of several families.
November 17, 2023 | 06:54 pm PT
Lithuanian man helps clean up HCMC's canals

Lithuanian man helps clean up HCMC's canals

Lithuanian Arturas Balynas, who fell in love with Vietnam, decided to lend a helping hand to clean up HCMC’s canals.
August 16, 2023 | 11:00 pm PT
Sludge from copper extraction barrels down northern Vietnam houses

Sludge from copper extraction barrels down northern Vietnam houses

Thousands of cubic meters of water and sludge from copper ore processing barreled down houses in northern Lao Cai Province on Tuesday.
August 8, 2023 | 07:12 am PT
Mekong Delta families block entry to waste treatment plant

Mekong Delta families block entry to waste treatment plant

Hundreds of families in the Mekong Delta's Ben Tre Province have sent people to block trucks from entering a waste treatment facility due to the pollution it causes.
August 6, 2023 | 07:33 pm PT
Untreated wastewater discharged into Da Nang river

Untreated wastewater discharged into Da Nang river

Wastewater from sewer gates has been poured directly into the Cam Le River of Da Nang, turning the water blackish with foul smell.
June 12, 2023 | 02:06 am PT
Everything sold in Vietnam is double or triple wrapped in plastic

Everything sold in Vietnam is double or triple wrapped in plastic

Littering and the overuse of plastic are making Vietnam lose its charms to foreign tourists, readers said.
April 16, 2023 | 10:23 pm PT
Residents besieged by dust storms from construction of Vietnam's largest airport

Residents besieged by dust storms from construction of Vietnam's largest airport

Dust from the construction of Long Thanh Airport, planned to be Vietnam’s largest, has been impacting the life of many people in Dong Nai Province.
April 1, 2023 | 10:29 pm PT
Korean firm fined for discharging sewage into streams

Korean firm fined for discharging sewage into streams

A South Korean waste treatment firm in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province has been fined VND1.3 billion (US$55,300) for discharging wastewater from its landfill into local streams.
March 24, 2023 | 12:31 am PT
Hanoi second most polluted city in Southeast Asia: survey

Hanoi second most polluted city in Southeast Asia: survey

Hanoi has the second worst air quality in Southeast Asia after Pasarkemis in Indonesia, according to a 2022 annual survey by IQAir, a Swiss maker of air purifiers.
March 16, 2023 | 05:40 am PT
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