Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Vietnam's prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Tokyo Sunday on a four-day visit expected to promote Japan's export of nuclear power plants to his country and joint development of rare earths.

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.

HANOI — Five people were killed when an illegal gold mine collapsed in central Vietnam after heavy rains, local media reported on Monday.

Vietnam's first bauxite mining and refinery complex Tan Rai is expected to start production in April, some months later than initial plan, according to the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin).

Hanoi - One of the few foreign mining companies operating in Vietnam has warned it will withhold $100m of investment because of the government’s tinkering with the tax and royalty regime.

Le ministre des Ressources naturelles et de l'Environnement, Pham Khôi Nguyên, a rassuré le 22 novembre les députés sur la sécurité des projets de bauxite au Vietnam, indiquant que le pays utilise la technologie la plus avancée en la matière.

Japan and Vietnam are set to agree on joint development of rare earth minerals this month as countries scramble to secure supplies after a squeeze by China, a report said Friday.

Last year Vietnam’s government successfully contained widespread opposition to a massive, Chinese-led bauxite mine. Critics were arrested, and the country’s only independent thinktank was effectively outlawed.

Several projects in both wind power and titanium mining sectors in the central province of Binh Thuan have been put on hold as most of the land reserved for wind power overlaps the sites for titanium mining, a provincial official said.

Des entreprises vietnamiennes sont en train de se préparer à entrer dans la course à l'exploitation d'un gisement aurifère cambodgien, le plus important connu jusqu'à maintenant en Asie du Sud-Est.

HANOI — Le Vietnam a rejeté les accusations du géant américain Google, qui a dénoncé la semaine dernière des cyberattaques contre des opposants à de très controversés projets de mines de bauxite dans le pays communiste.

Google Inc's announcement that hackers behind attacks on politically sensitive websites in Vietnam were located within the country came as no surprise, administrators of those websites said Wednesday.

Vietnam's largest mining company wants to begin mining huge coal deposits in the Red River delta, one of the country's most-populated agricultural areas, officials said Monday.

Le Groupe industriel du charbon et des minerais du Vietnam (Vinacomin) devrait lancer le 28 février, dans la province de Dak Nông (hauts plateaux du Centre), les travaux de construction de l'usine de fabrication d'alumine de Nhân Co.