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Chairman of northern Vietnam province intimidated for putting brakes on sand exploitation

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Tuoi Tre News Updated : 03/16/2017 16:45 GMT + 7

The chairman of the People’s Committee in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh has been the victim of threats since launching a campaign to end harmful sand exploitation in a local river.

Nguyen Tu Quynh, chairman of the provincial administration, has sent a letter notifying the prime minister that he and other officers had been threatened for ending a sand dredging project in the Cau River, an 83 kilometer long waterway snaking through Bac Ninh and Bac Giang Provinces.

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British man on mission for justice after wife gunned down in Philippines

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Guardian – Stuart Green’s wife Mia, a lawyer, was killed in a barrage of bullets that narrowly missed his children in a hit he blames on gangsters linked to one of her cases

Stuart Green with his wife Mia and their three children. ‘They know every move that we make,’ he says of the people he believes were responsible for her death.

Stuart Green with his wife Mia and their three children. ‘They know every move that we make,’ he says of the people he believes were responsible for her death. Photograph: Supplied

  Southeast Asia correspondent

The two gunmen flanked the modest, family-sized Toyota at a busy intersection. Aiming at the driver, they fired a barrage of bullets, nine of which fatally hit Mia Mascariñas-Green in her head and neck.

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Môi trường, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam seizes 100 kgs of rhino horn from Kenya

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ChannelNewsAisa Posted 15 Mar 2017 01:03

Seized smuggled rhino horns are displayed at a customs office in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AFP/STR)

HANOI: Vietnam police seized more than 100 kilogrammes of rhino horn smuggled into the country in suitcases from Kenya on Tuesday (Mar 14), the latest illegal haul in the wildlife trafficking hub.

Vietnam is a hot market for rhino horn, believed to have medicinal properties and is in high demand among the communist nation’s growing middle class.

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Việt Nam accuses China of violating its sovereignty

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VIETNAMNEWS Update: March, 14/2017 – 10:01

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lê Hải Bình yesterday accused China of infringing on Việt Nam’s sovereignty and urged it to respect international law. — VNA/VNS Photo Phạm Kiên

HÀ NỘI – Foreign Ministry spokesman Lê Hải Bình yesterday accused China of infringing on Việt Nam’s sovereignty and urged it to respect international law.

He spoke in response to reports that China had opened an illegal tourism route to Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Archipelago and that a Chinese coast guard vessel had pursued a Vietnamese fishing ship, coded QNg 95215 TS, in the area of Bạch Quy (Passu Keah) Island in Hoàng Sa.

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It’s payback time, America

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By Calvin Godfrey   March 13, 2017 | 02:18 pm GMT+7

It's payback time, America
Visitors learn about the Vietnam War at a museum in Ho Chi Minh City in a file photo taken in March 2015. Photo by Minh Le

e.VnExpress A diplomatic kerfuffle in Phnom Penh reminds us that the U.S. owes Vietnam $25.7 billion.

Last week, for seemingly no reason whatsoever, an anonymous U.S. State Department official made the strongest argument to date for Donald Trump to make good on wartime reparations promised to Vietnam by his political idol, Richard Nixon.

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Marine Corps to Protect China’s Growing Interest in Asia-Pacific Region

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Sputnik © AFP 2017/ STR Asia & Pacific

20:24 13.03.2017(updated 21:51 13.03.2017)

China plans to increase the number of its Marine Corps units from 20,000 to 100,000 in order to protect its vital marine communications and growing interests abroad, according to Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post citing military sources and experts.

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Vietnam’s ticking time-bomb of elderly poverty

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More are working into old age to survive, in the world’s most rapidly aging country. Will solutions be too little, too late for Vietnam’s growing ranks of elderly poor? Part 1 of a regional series on elderly poverty explores the issues.

  • By Ray Yeh and Kim Wong
  • Posted 12 Mar 2017 14:25
  • Updated 12 Mar 2017 16:13

82-year-old Tran Thi Huong does what she must to survive, like walk the city streets to sell lottery tickets.

HO CHI MINH CITY: Having slogged in the tiny, dimly lit kitchen since 4am, the Chau sisters are finally done mixing, kneading, steaming and cooking, some seven hours later.

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