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Korean firm fined for discharging sewage into streams

A South Korean waste treatment firm in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province has been fined VND1.3 billion (US$55,300) for discharging wastewater from its landfill into local streams. Kbec Vina Ltd. has also been suspended for discharging wastewater for 4.5 months. The yellow sewage, which has an unpleasant smell, was found flowing …

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Cold front to bring rain to northern Vietnam

A cold front would barrel down northern Vietnam regions starting Saturday, plunging temperatures down to as low as 12 degrees Celsius, a drop of 4-5 degrees from Friday. The cold front would reach the eastern parts of northern Vietnam on Saturday morning, before enveloping other regions of the north, according …

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How Vietnam is trying to stop rice warming the planet

As a child, Dong Van Canh watched while the rice fields of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta were set alight to make way for the next crop, blackening the sky and flooding the air with potent greenhouse gases. Rice, Asia’s principal staple, is to blame for around 10% of global emissions of …

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OTT services like Telegram, Whatsapp must be managed locally: government

Over-the-top media services, including popular messaging apps like Telegram, need to be managed under the Law on Telecommunications, according to amendments to it proposed by the government. The Ministry of Information and Communications said OTT services could be considered direct substitutes for traditional communications like calling and texting, and popular …

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TikTok’s danger to teens in focus during US congressional hearing

TikTok's danger to teens in focus during US congressional hearing

U.S. lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Thursday accused TikTok of serving harmful content and inflicting “emotional distress” on young users, grilling the Chinese-owned app’s CEO on the company’s outsized influence on teens. The hearing, which was TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew’s first appearance before Congress, comes at a …

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Health ministry proposes excise tax on sweetened drinks

The health ministry on Thursday proposed to apply excise tax for all sweetened drinks in accordance with WHO definitions. At a Thursday meeting on the impacts of sweetened drinks on health, Tran Thi Trang, deputy head of the legislation department under the Ministry of Health, said the ministry is proposing …

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