Pollution in Vietnam increasing severely

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Toxic waste continues to flood into Viet Nam - Environment - VietNam News

English - VietNamNet News

Yen Bai residents engulfed by waste dump stench - Environment - VietNam News

http://www.proceedings-stfandicard-...mpacts-at-Chinh-Bac-Waste-Dump-in-Vietnam.pdf

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Vietnam military pesticide firm fined for dumping toxic waste


Vietnam Fails to Control Import of Toxic Waste amid Rising Violations | VUFO - NGO Resource Centre Vietnam

nice, pls post more I like them. if you google China+smog+polution, you will get thousands of negative reports.

And Taiwan? is Taiwan a paradise?
according to air polution map, obviously not. the air of many cities on the west coast is unhealthy. Get a mask.
Air Pollution in Taiwan: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map

here is a pic for Chinese lover like you

 

[Rechoice]

It is in China.

The Habitat Advocate » Blog Archive » Made in China – cheap at a disgraceful cost

 

[waikici]

@Wholegrain

This guy has surreal muscles and hands. I'am ridiculous compared to him.

You are just glorifying Vietnam

 

[bolo]

Just dropping down some Chinese cities' pictures:

cool pics

 

[BoQ77]

Pollution in Vietnam is real issue.
Let face to it.

Don't try to drive to the same issue in China or elsewhere to defend

 

[Wahhab2701]

LOL...as long as the sky is blue and water remains clean, everything is still fine.

Put joke aside, that is true, there is a bad habit of some people polluting everywhere. Perhaps Vietnam should adopt Singapore model (punishing people hard if they pollute the enviroment).

(picture of city of Vung Tau, South Vietnam)

The last picture is Vung Tau. I miss that place, a truly beautiful place with nice people.

 

[Viet]

just in the news from yesterday. Germany will help Vietnam to clean the Saigon river.

original text in German: Großklärwerk in Vietnam: Know-how aus Witten macht Saigon-Fluss sauber - Westfalen heute - Mitteilung 07.02.14
google translated:

WWTW in Vietnam: know- how from Witten makes Saigon River clean
07/02/2014

Witten ( wh ) . The Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management ( IEEM ) at the University of Witten / Herdecke has now been mandated to plan a large sewage treatment plant for the megacity in Vietnam. Thus, the Saigon River should become clean in the future.

The project with a total investment of about 265 million U.S. dollars (195 million euros) was "very ambitious," says Prof. Dr. Karl -Ulrich Rudolph , director of the IEEM , of the project. Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) is a city in southern Vietnam , has experienced rapid growth in industry, economy and population .

The downside of this development are serious environmental problems . Untreated sewage contaminate the Saigon River considerably . Therefore, a large sewage treatment plant is planned , financed by the World Bank .

The capacity of 820,000 cubic meters of water Anlanger should be a day for the city center after completion. " By comparison, a city like Witten with around 100,000 inhabitants expects 25,000 cubic meters per day," Rudolph illustrates the extent of the project.

 

[Zero_wing]

And yet China is the no. source of Pollution

 

[Wholegrain]

its changing. Nhieu Loc cannal in HCM city before

and after cleaning, u even can go fishing

Cần xử lý mạnh tay

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MONRE: environment sacrificed for economic development - News VietNamNet

Dr. Hoang Duong Tung, Deputy Director General of the Environment Directorate under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE), in an interview given to the local press, expressed his worry that local authorities have been sacrificing the environment for economic development.

He noted that the great efforts by the ministry and the community to protect the environment would be in vain if local authorities determine the local economic development as the top priority.

Vietnam has to pay a heavy price for the economic growth. A lot of areas have got seriously polluted. The forests have been destroyed. The biodiversity has been degrading. The river water has got polluted. The air in urban areas has got problematic. Meanwhile, big problems still exist in the solid waste treatment.

Vietnam latest news - Thanh Nien Daily |
In Vietnam, unsustainable ‘modernization’ too much for sanitation services

Huynh Thanh Long said he and his neighbors close all their doors and windows whenever they are at home but that doesn’t keep the awful stink from the Ba Bo Canal out of the house.

“Pollution often forms a thick layer of foam on the surface of the flowing water,” said the resident of Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc District.

According to the city’s anti-inundation center, pollution in the canal is a combination of wastewater from residential areas and industrial zones upstream.

Pollution in big cities is common in Vietnam, threatening public health and sustainable growth, experts say.

Vietweek recently reported serious pollution in Hanoi’s rivers, the result of untreated wastewater being discharged from series of new urban areas built without wastewater treatment facilities.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/index/pages/20140114-real-estate-investors-destroying-hanoi-rivers.aspx

Nguyen Thi Loi, a resident of Hanoi’s Tu Liem District, said her local Nhue River is so polluted that residents have not been able use it to water their vegetable gardens for years. They say the stagnant black liquid kills plants.

“Fish and shrimp in the river used to be the main food for families living alongside the river, but they [fish and shrimp] no longer survive,” said Loi.

“Contact with the water causes itchy rashes and the [river's] stink makes you dizzy.”

The Nhue, a small river 76 kilometers long, is black for the 20 kilometers it flows through Hanoi. In some places it is covered in foam and too thick to even flow.

Many other rivers in the capital are also seriously polluted like the Nhue, a result of rapid urbanization without strict planning and the lax enforcement of wastewater treatment regulations in new residential areas.

Up the creek without a paddle

At the Nhue River, the pollution gets worse the further downstream you go.

People in Ha Dong District said heavy downpours reduce the stink, but only temporarily.

Things are horrific during the dry season at the turn of the year, they said.

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The Besins Healthcare in Vietnam

A large number of lifestyle issues and current environmental changes such as unhealthy diet; increasing obesity rates; smoking; air pollution from transport, industrial gas, water pollution; foods containing toxins, or stress in modern life, etc. are big factors affecting fertility of couples, leading to serious consequences as miscarriage, preterm birth, or even infertility .

According to the latest epidemiological studies carried out by the Ministry of Health, 7.7% of couples are infertile in Vietnam. Thus there are over 1 million of infertile couples who should be examined and treated. Preterm birth and miscarriage are also two of the leading causes of perinatal mortality in children worldwide and in Vietnam. (Source: Nearly 8% of couples are infertile in Vietnam. Dan Tri Newspaper, 5 April, 2013)

Social Headlines January 16 - News VietNamNet

Illegal miners from other provinces flocked to the jungles to dig for gold, creating headaches for local authorities concerning security and environment pollution, according to Hoa.

 

[Lux de Veritas]

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MONRE: environment sacrificed for economic development - News VietNamNet



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In Vietnam, unsustainable ‘modernization’ too much for sanitation services



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Real estate investors destroying Vietnam capital’s rivers



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The Besins Healthcare in Vietnam



Social Headlines January 16 - News VietNamNet

You have lost your credibility idiot. You are whiteman, christian and vietnamese hater. You do not know WTF you are saying. Get lost.

 

[Wholegrain]

You have lost your credibility idiot. You are whiteman, christian and vietnamese hater. You do not know WTF you are saying. Get lost.

Who hates Christian and whiteman?

http://www.degarfoundation.org/vn-uses-dogs-to-attack-degar-christian/HRUE-DƯM...24-02-2011/MRO=151

http://www.degarfoundation.org/dead...egar-christians/HRUE-DƯM...28-11-2010/MRO=171

http://www.degarfoundation.org/the-...ating-christmas/HRUE-DƯM...19-01-2011/MRO=160

http://www.degarfoundation.org/viet...ernational-law/HRUE-DƯM...06-12-2012/MRO=1344

http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4d95751d2.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/world/asia/01vietnam.html?_r=0

UNPO: Degar-Montagnards: 11 Christian Vietnamese And Cambodian Refugees Ordained

http://www.degarfoundation.org/viet...ristian-prisoner/HRUE-DƯM...24-11-2011/MRO=73

http://www.degarfoundation.org/viet...tian-worshippers/HRUE-DƯM...14-08-2011/MRO=85

http://www.degarfoundation.org/dead...egar-christians/HRUE-DƯM...28-11-2010/MRO=171

 

[Lux de Veritas]

Who hates Christian and whiteman?

http://www.degarfoundation.org/vn-uses-dogs-to-attack-degar-christian/HRUE-DƯM...24-02-2011/MRO=151

http://www.degarfoundation.org/dead...egar-christians/HRUE-DƯM...28-11-2010/MRO=171

http://www.degarfoundation.org/the-...ating-christmas/HRUE-DƯM...19-01-2011/MRO=160

http://www.degarfoundation.org/viet...ernational-law/HRUE-DƯM...06-12-2012/MRO=1344

http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4d95751d2.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/world/asia/01vietnam.html?_r=0

UNPO: Degar-Montagnards: 11 Christian Vietnamese And Cambodian Refugees Ordained

http://www.degarfoundation.org/viet...ristian-prisoner/HRUE-DƯM...24-11-2011/MRO=73

http://www.degarfoundation.org/viet...tian-worshippers/HRUE-DƯM...14-08-2011/MRO=85

http://www.degarfoundation.org/dead...egar-christians/HRUE-DƯM...28-11-2010/MRO=171

You You You.
You are christian, white man, pinoy, USA, Japan, Vietnam hater. You are a backstabber of SE Asian Chinese.

 

[Wholegrain]

You You You.
You are christian, white man, pinoy, USA, Japan, Vietnam hater. You are a backstabber of SE Asian Chinese.

Nope, the only Christian haters are the Vietnamese, who are murdering and setting dogs on Montagnard-Degar Christians, and its the Filipinos who backstab and hate SE Asian Chinese, and I've never said anything about hating white man.

Telling Indonesia to treat white people like it treats non-westerners is hating white man? Is Nelson Mandela a white man hater since he wanted blacks treated like whites?

Indonesia executed a Pakistani for drug smuggling, but commuted the death sentences of all white drug traffickers. How is pointing out this fact make me "hating" white man?

Indonesia grants parole to Australian drug trafficker

 

[KAL-EL]

@Viet Nice pics bro. Some friends and I are planning a trip to Japan, China and the Philippines when we graduate. I would very much like to add Vietnam to the list. Just a little unsure of how reasonably safe it would be for American visitors.

 

[NiceGuy]

A fine up to 2 billion VND (~100.000 USD) for administrative violations in the field of environment protection

On November 14th 2013, the Government issued Decree No. 179/2013/ND-CP providing sanctions of administrative violations (AV) in the field of environmental protection with a maximum fine of 01 billion VND for individuals and 02 billion VND for organization.

Specifically, a fine of 1.9 to 02 billion VND apply for organizations discharging wastewater containing radioactive substances causing environmental contamination beyond allowing technical regulations; a fine of 20-30 million VND apply for organizations who do not publicize the environmental management plan of the project at the project location and Committee’s Headquarters at ward level where conducts community consultations for people to know, check and monitor this plan; a fine of 100-110 million VND,120-130 million, and 200-250 million respectively applies for failing to construction projects for environmental protection, no test operation of waste treatment facilities of the project; do not immediately stop the operation of the project causing the problem adversely affect environmental quality and public health or reporting wrong results of running environmental protection measures which serves the commissioning phase of the project and do not have report of environmental impact assessment approved under the provisions.
A fine up to 2 billion VND for administrative violations in the field of environment protection

@Viet Nice pics bro. Some friends and I are planning a trip to Japan, China and the Philippines when we graduate. I would very much like to add Vietnam to the list. Just a little unsure of how reasonably safe it would be for American visitors.

if u visit Saigon, u should come to Pham Ngu Lao st, district 1 for more information.

No gun r allowed, so VN is quite safe. dont wear any expensive chain or use expensive phone the streets for ur own safety to avoid the pickpockets

Foreigners from all over the world can be found here - so the chance of making a new expat friends are likely to be higher than other districts. Pham Ngu Lao street is touted as a Western road where there are a lot of Western-styled restaurants, coffee shops, bars and other services for foreigners. Thanks to the high density of foreigners, there are more citizens in District 1 who can communicate in English than in other districts. If you are not confident in your Vietnamese and do not have any translator, District 1 may be the most suitable place to live for less hassle in daily conversation (read Can You Get By With Just English in Vietnam).
Districts of Ho Chi Minh City - Accommodation, Food, and Shopping