Billed as one of Vietnam’s pristine World Heritage sites, Hoi An’s tourism success could backfire due to a failure to tackle pollution.
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No room on water, no home on land for Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese
“The officials say we are polluting the water, but it is industries and city people who do that. We just want to make a living from fishing – we will starve if we are moved.”
Long An inaugurates VND1 trillion solar power plant
It is one of the first solar power plants inaugurated in the Mekong Delta province and integrated into the national electricity grid.
It’s not just melting glaciers that endanger the Mekong and its region
For 9 mouths of the Mekong would flow into the South China Sea, now it’s 7 and “in the future maybe we have four or five”.
Vietnamese fishing communities seek justice in lawsuit against Taiwanese corporation
The movement for accountability in the Formosa case has been subject to what some rights groups call a crackdown on freedom of expression by the state.
Vietnam’s Cham Islands successfully protect biodiversity
The islands are the only location in Vietnam promoting the non-use of plastic bags and the ‘3Rs’ (reduce, reuse and recycle) programmes since 2011.