Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

After four times of delays, the Tan Rai bauxite plant will have its first batch of product on December 14-15.

Some Korean renewable energy enterprises are exploring the potential for wind power to apply Korean wind power technology in Vietnam.

Despite huge investments worth billions of dong, the Bo Y international border gate in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, and the Nhon Hoi economic zone in the Binh Dinh Province have been left deserted without any investors or operational projects.

Transport officials at a meeting in Dong Nai Province on Saturday concluded that road conditions are not suitable for transporting alumina from the mining site in the Central Highlands to a port on the Thi Vai River for export, and suggested that upgrade be made quickly.

HANOI - Vietnam will produce the first alumina from a bauxite complex in the Central Highlands in September after months of delays caused by adverse weather, power shortages and slow equipment delivery, the official Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed that the government cancels 38 approved hydropower plant projects in the central region as they pose serious threats to the environment and society.

HANOI — Vietnam has jailed three ethnic minority Montagnards for up to 10 years after finding them guilty of "undermining national solidarity", state media said on Monday.

Visiting a controversial aluminum factory in Vietnam's Central Highlands, prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the project should go forward, state media reported Wednesday.

If there was a need to identify a consensus among Vietnamese across the spectrum from domestic to overseas, it must be the uneasy feeling towards China. The Vietnamese mentality regarding national security from time immemorial has been that of vigilance on China.

HO CHI MINH CITY - A plan to mine bauxite deposits in Vietnam's Central Highlands, and whose opponents include famed general Vo Nguyen Giap, has provoked dissent even in the companies involved while already tearing up the livelihoods of tea and coffee farmers in nearby towns.

Vietnam is pressing ahead with efforts to lure Chinese mining firms despite facing at home an increasingly bold environmental lobby and a deep-seated suspicion of the country's larger, more prosperous northern neighbour.

Vietnam will review the environmental and economic impact of controversial Chinese-backed bauxite mining projects in the country's Central Highlands, Vietnamese press reported Monday.

A major Central Highlands irrigation project is stuck in the mud over compensation issues, funding shortage.