Vietnam Air at ‘Danger Point’ Could Threaten Economic Revival-By Lien Hoang, Bloomberg, May 17, 2017 Vietnam is famously teeming with motorbikes that carry an air pollution double whammy: The fumes they discharge are largely unregulated, and they’re often breathed in by riders on packed city roads. And plenty of other factors are conspiring against healthy lungs in one of the most polluted and […]
Vietnam: Environmentalists targeted by manhunt for ‘abusing democratic freedoms’-Asian Correspondent, May 17, 2017 ENVIRONMENTAL rights defender Hoang Duc Binh has been arrested by the Vietnamese government for supposedly “abusing democratic freedoms” after he organised a protest to mark a year since Taiwanese steel giant Formosa caused a major environmental disaster. According to human rights NGO Frontline Defenders, Hoang Duc Binh was violently dragged from […]
Thủy điện Pắc-Beng trên sông Mekong và nguy cơ gây thiếu nước ở ĐBSCL-Xã luận, ngày 16/5/2017 Thời gian gần đây, tình hình phát triển thủy điện nhanh chóng ở các quốc gia thượng nguồn lưu vực sông Mekong, đặc biệt là về phát triển thủy điện dòng chính thu hút sự quan tâm của dư luận. Ảnh minh họa Thời gian gần đây, tình hình phát […]
Khi Lào xây đập thủy điện trên dòng chính sông Mekong-Đài Á châu Tự do, ngày 16/5/2017 Hội thảo tham vấn về dự án thủy điện Pak Beng của Lào trên dòng chính sông Mekong được tổ chức tại Cần Thơ, vào ngày 12 tháng 5 vừa qua. Các chuyên gia Việt Nam đề nghị tạm dừng và kéo dài thời gian tham vấn trước […]
Vietnam Defends Arrest of Anti-Formosa Activist-Radio Free Asia, May 16, 2017 Authorities in central Vietnam’s Nghe An province on Tuesday defended the arrest of an activist who had campaigned against Hanoi’s handling of a devastating toxic waste spill, saying he was responsible for a demonstration that took over a government office and created social disorder. Nghe An provincial police on […]
Vietnam Rounds-Up Activists Who Led Protest Leaders Against Taiwan Toxic Spill-The News Lens, May 16, 2017 A Vietnamese activist was arrested on May 15 for protesting an environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by a Taiwanese company in 2016. Hoang Duc Binh, 34, organized protests in April 2016 following the release of toxic waste by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation in the Vung Ang Economic […]
Vietnam arrests anti-polluter activist-AP, May 16, 2017 HANOI — In Vietnam’s latest crackdown on dissent, police have arrested an activist who organised a protest against a polluting steel plant, saying he instigated demonstrators to attack and injure several police officers. A statement on the website of Nghe An provincial police in central Vietnam said 34-year-old Hoang Duc Binh was […]
New Threat Research Shows Vietnam a Rising Force in Cyberespionage-Dark Reading, May 16, 2017 FireEye report on APT32 puts evidence together of a group attacking private and public targets for the sake of Vietnamese state interests. Forget China and Russia. New evidence out this week suggests that a new font of cyberespionage has woken up from different nation-state source than the usual suspects: Vietnam. […]
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