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Dong Nai to pull rug on polluting projects

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many firms in southern Dong Nai Province found to be releasing toxic waste into the environment will have their permits withdrawn by the end of the year.

Dong Nai climb table as storm stalls V-League

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dong Nai drew 1-1 against hosts Ninh Binh to move to seventh place in the V-League's 13th round.

TRAVEL IN BRIEF 14/6

 Travel agency launches new river tours; Press seek S Korea travel tips; Cham Island hosts 31,000 visitors; Bach Ma Park woos trekkers

Farmer's turbine offers green solution

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ngo Van Quynh has spent 21 years creating green hydroelectric power plants. The three plants he built have a small capacity, but they save water, protect the environment and are quite economical.

Discovering Doi Cave in Dong Nai

VietNamNet Bridge – Recently, foreign media reported that German explorers identified that Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai has Southeast Asia’s longest cave formed by volcanoes.

Huge volume of dioxin-contaminated soil not buried

VietNamNet Bridge – There are still 240,000 cubic meters of soil and sludge contaminated with dioxin in Dong Nai Province’s Bien Hoa Airport area not buried, posing high risks to people’s health and the environment,

Assembly reviews hydro project environment risks

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in southern Dong Nai Province have asked the National Assembly to reject the proposed hydro-power projects Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A because of environmental risks.

Discovery of longest lava cave in Southeast Asia

 VietNamNet Bridge – A system of lava caves including one considered as the longest lava cave of Southeast Asia has been discovered in the southern province of Dong Nai,

Mobile computer schools narrow divide

VietNamNet Bridge – One-thousand days since the idea of building mobile schools and provide computer education to children in rural areas struck Nguyen Van Hanh, five such institutions have been set up.

Dong Nai: Wanted man becomes police officer

As the leader of a robbery gang and being wanted on charges of robbery in 2004, just over one year later, Tran Huu Nam was recruited as a service policeman and gradually promoted as a lieutenant.

Scarce food forces gaurs to plunder

 VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal poaching and shrinking habitat are forcing endangered Gaurs to encroach on farmland in southern Dong Nai Province, causing conflict with local farmers.

Hospital apologizes for mistakenly handing over infant babies

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials of the Long Khanh General Hospital in the southern province of Dong Nai on March 23 met with two families to offer and apologize for delivering the wrong baby to them.

Waste firm agrees to cough up damages

The Sonadezi Long Thanh Company confirmed that it would pay the entire compensation it owed farmers in the southern province of Dong Nai on Wednesday, Feb 6, local officials announced.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 9/1

Finance approved to build power plants; Quang Ngai chases investment; Vietnamese property developer targets Myanmar; Tourism industry fears surge in visa prices; Viet Nam expects over 7 million visitors in 2013

Owner-absent FIEs difficult to handle

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) whose owners have fled is growing, but it is not easy for the authorities to handle such cases.

Weekend trip to Dong Nai porcupine, bamboo rat farm

VietNamNet Bridge – Dong Nai is known for its eco tourist sites like O island, Mai waterfall and numerous fruit gardens. Now, tourists have another choice for their weekend getaway from the city with a new destination

VND257 billion set aside for elephant conservation

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nghe An, Dak Lak and Dong Nai will become three centers of elephant conservation under a VND257-billion project set up by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Foreign firms flee, leaving jobless behind

The number of foreign-direct invested enterprises based in HCM City and southern Dong Nai Province that have suspended operations has increased in the last few months, leaving thousands of local workers jobless

Rubbish dumps blight residential areas

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dozens of temporary garbage dumps have formed in residential areas of southern Dong Nai Province due to a shortage of landfill sites, causing serious pollution that affects local people's health.