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  Quang Tri residents at risk from contaminated water

  (10:28:58 AM 30/12/2014)

  The authorities in the central Quang Tri Province have made a list of 52 areas that are heavily contaminated with pesticides leaking from unused warehouses.

  Tags: Quang Tri, residents, contaminated water
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  90 percent of US-imported apples in Vietnam not contaminated

  (14:48:57 PM 24/01/2015)

  The apples contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes were exclusively produced by the California-based Bidart Bros Company, confirmed the US Embassy in a working session with the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Hanoi on January 22.

  Tags: US-imported, apples , Vietnam,
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  Ha Tinh residents used petrol-contaminated water for 40 years

  (15:49:45 PM 14/02/2015)

  For at least 40 years, hundreds of households in Huong Khe District in the central province of Ha Tinh have had to survive using water resources contaminated with petroleum.

  Tags: Ha Tinh, residents, smell of petrol, clean water,
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  Fertile land swallowed by IZs, rice fields contaminated by industrial waste

  (11:11:57 AM 04/12/2014)

  Farmers in the suburbs of HCM City have lost their livelihood because their cultivation land has been poisoned by industrial waste from nearby industrial zones.

  Tags: Fertile land, swallowed, IZs, rice fields, contaminated, industrial waste
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  HIV egg rumours dismissed

  (11:37:17 AM 02/03/2015)

  An official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has rejected a rumour surfacing in the social media that Chinese chicken eggs sold in Vietnam have been injected with blood contaminated with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV).

  Tags: :HIV egg, rumours, farm products,
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  Increased pesticide, fertiliser use contaminating farmland

  (16:13:18 PM 15/06/2015)

  Much of Vietnam’s agricultural land has become contaminated because of the abuse of pesticides and fertilizers, and the cost to revive it could be high.

  Tags: Vietnam, pesticide, residue, food safety,
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  Water utility denies presence of arsenic

  (10:02:38 AM 19/05/2014)

  A representative of Ha Noi Water Company has denied claims that water supplied by several water companies in the city has been contaminated with arsenic, a toxic chemical linked to skin cancer.

  Tags: Water, utility, denies, presence, of, arsenic
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  Vietnam's Saigon River poisoned to death

  (15:00:12 PM 28/11/2013)

  The pride and sustenance of Ho Chi Minh City is severely contaminated with wastewater and urgent steps have to be taken to save it, experts said at a workshop Tuesday (November 26).

  Tags: Saigon River, death
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  Pine forest dying of chemical contamination

  (17:18:29 PM 07/05/2015)

  The pine forest in Subregion No 144A of the Da Nhim Protective Forest in Lam Dong has been contaminated with chemicals.

  Tags: Vietnam, pine forest, Gia Lai province,
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  Workshop highlights dioxin contamination at Bien Hoa Airport

  (08:45:41 AM 23/10/2014)

  Around 250,000 cu.m of soil in Bien Hoa City, the southern province of Dong Nai, are contaminated with dioxin at levels ranging from 1,000 ppt to as high as more than 1 million ppt, it was reported at a workshop in Dong Nai on October 21.

  Tags: Workshop, highlights, dioxin, contamination, Bien Hoa Airport
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  Pesticide cleanup halted after residents spot water leak

  (23:44:43 PM 08/07/2014)

  Do Chi Bao, who lives in the commune, discovered water overflowing from a hole used to treat the pesticide-contaminated soil last Tuesday.

  Tags: Pesticide, cleanup, halted, after, residents, spot water, leak
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  Students make water filters for flood-stricken areas

  (14:52:35 PM 15/11/2013)

  Students Nguyen Anh Hung and Truong Quoc Vi from the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City know what it's like to be without fresh water in flood ravaged, contaminated areas.

  Tags: water filters, flood-stricken areas
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  Vietnam wants help to clear bomb-polluted areas

  (13:57:51 PM 01/05/2013)

  Vietnam wants further global assistance to clear bomb and mine contaminated areas in the time to come, said a Vietnamese official.

  Tags: environment, clear bomb-polluted, war, programme