12/01/2020    19:40 GMT+7

Six years ago, a village of tycoons appeared in Son Tay District, in the central province of Quang Ngai, as local people became billionaires overnight thanks to land compensation from a hydropower project.

Villager Dinh Thi Vun of the Anh Nhoi 2 resettlement village, Son Tay District, Quang Ngai Province. Photo thanhnien.vn

Almost immediately, they poured money into building splendid homes that shaped a new urban area in the forest.

Most of them, however, soon returned to poverty and now have to live on rice subsidies due to overspending.

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Đọc bài quan trọng “Phân tích pháp lý về đất đai trong vu Đồng Tâm“

Đọc bài quan trọng “Phân tích pháp lý về đất đai trong vu Đồng Tâm“

09/01/2020 Trân Văn, VOA

Cảnh sát cơ động có mặt từ sáng sớm ngày 09-01-2020. Photo Dong Tam TV.

Xung đột giữa dân chúng xã Đồng Tâm, huyện Mỹ Đức, thành phố Hà Nội với lực lượng vũ trang Việt Nam vào rạng sáng ngày 9 tháng 1 đã dẫn đến kết quả hết sức thảm khốc: “Ba cán bộ, chiến sĩ công an hi sinh, một đối tượng chống đối chết, một đối tượng chống đối bị thương”. Đó là chưa kể những “đối tượng vi phạm pháp luật nghiêm trọng” bị “các đơn vị chức năng khống chế và bắt giữ” mà Bộ Công an Việt Nam không cho biết con số cụ thể (1). Thêm một lần nữa, nước mắt và máu lại chan hòa sau vô số những lời hoa mỹ!

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• In Hanoi’s moneyed commercial centre, corporate HQs and luxury shops sit steps from the homes of people living in tiny rooms too small to stand up in
• After the Vietnam war ended in 1975, people were given small spaces to live in with the hope of larger housing in the future – dreams that never came true

Sen Nguyen, SCMP

Published: 7:15am, 8 Jan, 2020

“If anyone offered me a bigger house in exchange for my leg, I would give it to them in a heartbeat,” says Vietnamese delivery man Hoang Van Xuan, a 56-year-old who lives in a tiny decrepit attic in Hanoi, in the moneyed commercial centre known as the Old Quarter.

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By Ba Do   January 9, 2020 | 03:02 pm GMT+7

Three policemen and a civilian were killed Thursday in a clash at a controversial military airport construction site in Hanoi.

A road running through Dong Tam Commune in My Duc District, Hanoi, January 9, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Viet Duc.

The clash took place a week after some units of the Ministry of National Defense, in collaboration with local authorities, began building a fence for the Mieu Mon military airport in Dong Tam Village, My Duc District, 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, the Ministry of Public Security said.

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14:04 | 08/01/2020

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. Photo: VGP

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh stressed the point in his latest article released Wednesday.Viet Nam assumes the role in the context of profound changes in the region and the world, including prolonged conflicts in Africa, rising escalation in the Middle East and potential risks in some regions.

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By Anh Minh   January 5, 2020 | 02:42 pm GMT+7 VnExpress

State power utility EVN will buy around 1.5 billion kWh of electricity a year from Laos for two years starting in 2021.

Under contracts it signed on Saturday, Vietnam Electricity (EVN) will buy over 596 million kWh a year from two hydropower plants belonging to Phongsubthavy Group and 632 million kWh from two plants belonging to Chealun Sekong Group from 2022.

From 2021 it will start buying 263 million kWh annually from another plant belonging to the latter company.

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