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In Vietnam, one year after the toxic waste spill caused by Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics Group, the clean-up and compensation remains unsatisfactorily resolved. When police confiscated protesters "NO-FORMOSA" T-shirts, locals joined protesters who surrounded the police station.

Vietnamese Protesters Surround Police Station, Demand Apology For Beatings, Stolen Shirts
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RFA - Tuesday 25th April, 2017
Nearly a thousand protesters surrounded the police station of Quynh Luu district in central Vietnam's Nghe An province on Monday to demand an apology from police for their confiscation of 200 T-shirts carrying protest slogans and beating of the two men caught transporting the shirts, sources said.

The shirts, which police promised later in the day to return, bore the slogan No-Formosa in a reference to the Taiwan-owned Formosa Plastics Group, whose steel plant in coastal Ha Tinh province caused a toxic waste spill last year that killed an estimated 115 tons of fish and left fishermen jobless in four coastal provinces.

Outraged by police mistreatment of those transporting the shirts, Quynh Luu residents including many Catholics gathered outside district police headquarters on April 24 to demand the shirts' return, parish priest Dan Huu Nam told RFA's Vietnamese Service.

"I told the authorities in front of everyone that if they don't resolve this situation properly, we will continue to peacefully protest to demand our rights," he said, adding, "The authorities have promised to make a statement in written form."
The protest ended without clashes, and by 6:00 p.m. all protesters had returned to their homes, sources said.

The Formosa Company has voluntarily paid U.S. $500 million to clean up and compensate coastal residents affected by the April 2016 spill, but slow and uneven payout of the funds by the Vietnamese government has prompted protests that continue to be held a year later.

Vietnam's government has meanwhile rebuked former environmental minister Nguyen Minh Quang and dismissed two of his deputies over their handling of the waste spill and its aftermath, Vietnam's Tuo Tre news said on April 22.

Vo Kim Cu, former party chief secretary of Ha Tinh province has also been dismissed, Tuo Tre said.
[Reported by Anh Vu for RFA's Vietnamese Service.]

Back story to the Formosa Co. toxic chemical spill:
Taiwanese chemical spill thought to cause mass fish die-off in Vietnam
3 May 2016 / David Brown
The incident is shaping up as a classic conflict between industrialization and the environment, a catastrophe for tens of thousands of fishermen and their families, and a test of the management skills and political acumen of Vietnam’s new leaders...
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/taiwa ... f-vietnam/
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Vietnam's government has meanwhile rebuked former environmental minister Nguyen Minh Quang and dismissed two of his deputies over their handling of the waste spill and its aftermath, Vietnam's Tuo Tre news said on April 22.
The same government that at first tried to sweep the whole thing under the carpet.....
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Vietnam Urged to Free Detained Citizen Journalist on World Press Freedom Day
2017-05-03
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A group of human rights and internet security organizations marked World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday by calling on Vietnam to free detained citizen journalist Nguyen Van Hoa, held since January on charges of disseminating “anti-state propaganda.”

In a statement signed by Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres and Washington-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, among others, the organizations demanded that authorities “immediately release” Hoa, an activist known for filming protests against a polluting steel plant.

Hoa, 22, who is also a digital security trainer and regular contributor to RFA, was the first person to broadcast live footage of protests outside Taiwan-owned Formosa’s steel plant located at the deep-water port in Ha Tinh province using a flycam drone. Last October, his footage of more than 10,000 peaceful protesters went viral.

Formosa has acknowledged that its steel plant caused a toxic waste spill last year that killed an estimated 115 tons of fish and left fishermen jobless in four coastal provinces. The company pledged U.S. $500 million to clean up and compensate people affected by the spill, but the government has faced protests over the amount of the settlement and the slow pace of payouts...
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i live in Vung Tau 7yrs please dont tell anybody about it to keep the damn School teachers a back packers out .full of bloody aussies
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Well, wannabe teachers are rolling in to VT. Almost every week on the two VT expat FB pages, someone new comes on and asks about a teaching job. Never see backpackers though in Vung Tau. It's just not on the tattoo-and-dreds circuit. Thank dog! Will be moving to VT this summer.
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2017 3:47 am In Vietnam, one year after the toxic waste spill caused by Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics Group, the clean-up and compensation remains unsatisfactorily resolved. When police confiscated protesters "NO-FORMOSA" T-shirts, locals joined protesters who surrounded the police station.

Vietnamese Protesters Surround Police Station, Demand Apology For Beatings, Stolen Shirts
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RFA - Tuesday 25th April, 2017
Nearly a thousand protesters surrounded the police station of Quynh Luu district in central Vietnam's Nghe An province on Monday to demand an apology from police for their confiscation of 200 T-shirts carrying protest slogans and beating of the two men caught transporting the shirts, sources said.

The shirts, which police promised later in the day to return, bore the slogan No-Formosa in a reference to the Taiwan-owned Formosa Plastics Group, whose steel plant in coastal Ha Tinh province caused a toxic waste spill last year that killed an estimated 115 tons of fish and left fishermen jobless in four coastal provinces.

Outraged by police mistreatment of those transporting the shirts, Quynh Luu residents including many Catholics gathered outside district police headquarters on April 24 to demand the shirts' return, parish priest Dan Huu Nam told RFA's Vietnamese Service.

"I told the authorities in front of everyone that if they don't resolve this situation properly, we will continue to peacefully protest to demand our rights," he said, adding, "The authorities have promised to make a statement in written form."
The protest ended without clashes, and by 6:00 p.m. all protesters had returned to their homes, sources said.

The Formosa Company has voluntarily paid U.S. $500 million to clean up and compensate coastal residents affected by the April 2016 spill, but slow and uneven payout of the funds by the Vietnamese government has prompted protests that continue to be held a year later.

Vietnam's government has meanwhile rebuked former environmental minister Nguyen Minh Quang and dismissed two of his deputies over their handling of the waste spill and its aftermath, Vietnam's Tuo Tre news said on April 22.

Vo Kim Cu, former party chief secretary of Ha Tinh province has also been dismissed, Tuo Tre said.
[Reported by Anh Vu for RFA's Vietnamese Service.]

Back story to the Formosa Co. toxic chemical spill:
Taiwanese chemical spill thought to cause mass fish die-off in Vietnam
3 May 2016 / David Brown
The incident is shaping up as a classic conflict between industrialization and the environment, a catastrophe for tens of thousands of fishermen and their families, and a test of the management skills and political acumen of Vietnam’s new leaders...
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/taiwa ... f-vietnam/
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Reminds me of the Mosaic Group and it's contamination of wetlands area in the U.S.

34:47 to around 38-39 min mark. Original documentary isn't about environmentalism though.

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It will be interesting to see how this works out.

Vietnamese capital decides to ban motorbikes from 2030
04/07/2017 12:44
HANOI, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Hanoi capital city on Tuesday decided to ban motorbikes from 2030, local online newspaper VnExpress reported.

According to a resolution on strengthening management over means of transport in Hanoi in the 2017-2030 period, approved by the municipal legislative body on Tuesday, no motorbikes will be allowed to run in urban districts from 2030, and automobiles will, in the coming time, be either banned in some areas, or allowed to operate at specific hours or on specific days.

The city will also tighten management over taxi services, including taxi-hailing ones such as Grab and Uber, and develop public transport.

By the end of November 2016, Hanoi, with a population of some 7.6 million people, had over 5 million motorbikes, according to the municipal Transport Department.
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I wish they would ban the over use of honking horns there first! That and not riding on the sidewalks would make it an enjoyable place to tour around!
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No halt to abuses in Vietnam
7 July 2017
When tons of dead fish first started to appear last year on Vietnam’s central coast, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known as Mother Mushroom, was among the first dissident bloggers to call for corporate and government accountability for what has been one of the country’s worst ever environmental disasters.

Last week, after being held incommunicado in pretrial detention for over eight months, Quynh was sentenced to ten years in prison for “propagandizing” against the state, a criminal offense in Vietnam’s one-party political system.
The widely-condemned verdict has put Vietnam’s rights record under renewed scrutiny as it reaches towards the US and European Union for new trade deals to lessen its rising economic reliance on China.
http://www.atimes.com/article/no-halt-abuses-vietnam/
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'Mother Mushroom': Top Vietnamese blogger jailed for 10 years
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