War veteran now fights for his local forest

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Update: June, 24/2017 – 09:00

Trần Đức Minh (right) patrols forest. – Photo khuyennongvn.gov.vn

Viet Nam News QUẢNG NGÃI — The 65-year-old war veteran Trần Đức Minh has never forgotten the moment he stumbled on a tree trunk while chasing poachers in Nhàn mountain, leaving his feet bleeding.

Falling is merely one of many risks forest rangers face daily. Minh has volunteered to protect Nhàn Mountain in Tịnh Sơn Commune, Sơn Tịnh District, central Quảng Ngãi Province for nearly 40 years. Tiếp tục đọc “War veteran now fights for his local forest”

Vietnam province fears ‘another Formosa’ as paper mill raises environmental concerns

TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 05/11/2017 13:33 GMT + 7

The construction site of the VNT19 pulp mill is seen in Quang Ngai Province, located in central Vietnam.

With the fish death disaster caused by wastewater dumped by a steel plant into the waters off central Vietnam still fresh in the minds of citizens, administrators in a province housing a paper mill are worried about giving history the opportunity to repeat itself.

The administration of the central province of Quang Ngai has called on the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to provide more detailed guidance on how to ensure the VNT19 pulp mill in Binh Son District will not become ‘another Formosa.’ Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam province fears ‘another Formosa’ as paper mill raises environmental concerns”