China admits pollution-linked 'cancer villages'

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China admits pollution-linked 'cancer villages'

China's environment ministry has acknowledged the existence of "cancer villages", several years after widespread speculation first began that polluted areas were seeing a higher incidence of the disease.

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China admits pollution-linked 'cancer villages'

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 3 month(s) ago

China admits pollution-linked 'cancer villages'

China's environment ministry has acknowledged the existence of "cancer villages", after years of assertions by academics and domestic media that polluted areas experience higher rates of the disease.

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China detects no raised radiation from North Korea nuclear test

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China detects no raised radiation from North Korea nuclear test

China has increased radiation monitoring in its northeast following North Korea's nuclear test this week and found no immediate abnormalities, the Environment Ministry said on Thursday.

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China's thick smog arrives in Japan

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The suffocating smog that blanketed swathes of China is now hitting parts of Japan, sparking warnings Monday of health fears for the young and the sick.

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Inspectors given more latitude

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Inspectors given more latitude

The Government Inspectorate should crack down on violations in key sectors, including finance, banking, management of State Budget funds - and on the import and export industry, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

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Inspectors given more latitude

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The Government Inspectorate should crack down on violations in key sectors, including finance, banking, management of State Budget funds - and on the import and export industry, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

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Inspectors given more latitude

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VietnamPlus English 4 month(s) ago 3 related news

The Government Inspectorate should crack down on violations in key sectors, including finance, banking, management of State Budget funds - and on the import and export industry, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

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Inspectors given more latitude

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Inspectors given more latitude

The Government Inspectorate should crack down on violations in key sectors, including finance, banking, management of State Budget funds - and on the import and export industry, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

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Natural resources need careful management

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Natural resources need careful management

Development in Vietnam has relied too much on the exploitation of finite natural resources, an official of the environment ministry has warned.

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Natural resources need careful management

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Development in Viet Nam has relied too much on the exploitation of finite natural resources, an official of the environment ministry has warned.

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Vietnam tigers, medicinal herbs pushed to brink of extinction

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Vietnam tigers, medicinal herbs pushed to brink of extinction

Many precious Vietnamese herbs have been driven to the edge of extinction by increased smuggling to China while deforestation is exterminating Vietnam's wild tiger population, the environment ministry said Tuesday.

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Thailand to build artificial reefs

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VietnamPlus English 8 month(s) ago

Thailand’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Navy and the civil sector recently, under which they will cooperate in constructing artificial reefs from decommissioned battleships.

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Polluted trade villages to be cleaned up

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VietNam News English 9 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

The seriously polluted environment surrounding 47 trade villages nation-wide is set to be gradually removed under the National Target Programme on Environmental Pollution Improvement during 2012-15.

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VND1.8 trillion set aside for climate change adaptation

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VND1.8 trillion set aside for climate change adaptation

HCMC – Vietnam will spend nearly VND1.8 trillion from now to 2015 coping with climate change impacts as part of the national target program to respond to climate change in the 2012-2015 period.

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Paradise isle reeks of garbage

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VietNam News English 10 month(s) ago 2 duplicate news

Paradise isle reeks of garbage

Garbage dumped along dykes protecting once-beautiful Ly Son Island in central Quang Ngai Province is polluting the water, killing coral, prawns and sea vegetation. It has also created a foul stench that dominates the once fragrant sea air.

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