HÀ NỘI — In the midst of public anger over violations at a protection forest in the rural Sóc Sơn District of Hà Nội, some 200 households in Minh Tân Village are at risk of being unfairly punished as authorities scramble to fix the wrongdoings.

Locals argued that the recent conclusion formed by authorities, based on a 2008 map, completely disregarded over 30 years of settlement and efforts to reforest the barren hills, and grouped them in the same category as those who have encroached on the area in a controversial case that involves officials and celebrities who built villas on supposedly protection forestland. Tiếp tục đọc “Minh Tân residents unwitting victims of forest scandal” →