clean-up

Update news clean-up

Schools begin clean-up before start of new year

Teachers at schools in HCM City, especially kindergartens, have co-operated with health officials to clean and disinfect toys and the environment to ensure hygiene when a new academic year begins on September 5.

Waste pond clean-up to take time

The waste pond breakage that discharged over 45,000cu.m of mud and untreated chemical-filled wastewater in Bao Thang District of northern mountainous Lao Cai Province last week will severely affect the ecosystems of surrounding areas. 

Vale and BHP fined $260m for deadly Brazilian dam burst

 BHP Billiton and Vale have been fined a further 1bn reais (£171m, $260m) for the mining disaster that killed 11 people in Brazil earlier this month.

Da Nang on track for dioxin clean-up by 2016

 VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang International Airport’s efforts to clean up 80,000m3 of dioxin-contaminated soil and sediments by 2016, with support from the United States Agency for International Development, are running