Experts believe that environmental problems exist in nearly all coastal industrial zones (IZs), not just in Vung Ang IZ, where a serious environmental incident occurred two months ago, causing mass fish deaths in four central provinces.

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite mass fish deaths in central Vietnam, fish caught in the area are still being exported to major markets. 

The unknown cause of mass dying of fishstock in the central part of Vietnam may affect the tourism sector, known as one of the major bread-winners of the central region.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Singaporean company - Freight Links Capital Pte., Ltd - has proposed to build a port for vessels of up to 50,000 DWT in the Vung Ang port in Ha Tinh province, in central Vietnam.

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PetroVietnam Insurance Company will advance $1 million of compensation to Taiwanese Formosa Group for its losses in the riots at the Vung Ang Economic Zone in mid-May.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign investors say they consider the riots triggered by disruptive elements some days ago to be unfortunate incidents, but affirm that they do not intend to leave Vietnam, which they still find “attractive” and “friendly”.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities have created favorable conditions for Chinese workers in the Vung Ang Economic Zone in Ha Tinh Province to return home in accordance with contractors’ proposals.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In relation to recent incidents at the Vung Ang Economic Zone in the Ky Anh District of Ha Tinh Province, local police on Sunday morning arrested and charged 16 people for theft and disturbing public order.

 VietNamNet Bridge - An international press conference was held in Hanoi on May 17 to inform foreign reporters about bad individuals’ extremist actions that affected social order and safety in several localities in the country.

 The Party Committee in the central province of Ha Tinh has narrated the sequence of events that led to the anti-China protests in which one person was reported killed at the Vung Ang Economic Zone on May 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – It is legitimate to show patriotism and protest China’s illegal rig in Vietnam’s waters, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, but those who take advantage of this situation to violate the law must be severely punished.

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