Vietnam drags feet over 'urgent' pollution problem

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Vietnam drags feet over 'urgent' pollution problem

The World Bank estimates that air pollution, which returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2023, costs Vietnam more than US$13 billion every year, equivalent to almost three per cent of the country's GDP in 2024.

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Vietnam drags feet over ‘urgent’ pollution problem

In the last three months, Hanoi has regularly topped a list of the world’s most polluted cities. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Hanoi grapples with alarming air pollution, yet government inaction persists in world’s most polluted city

HANOI, March 1 — Toxic smoke billows from a burning mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen’s farm in Hanoi, a......

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Faced with the persistence of the smog that covers the megapole, Tran Thi Chi preferred to leave the house of the center that she had lived for more than a decade, to settle about fifty kilometers away.