After two days of hearings and deliberation, the court also handed down sentences to 10 other defendants in the case, which involved Thien An Phat Mineral Joint Stock Company and related units.
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh on March 18 had a working session with visiting Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbers, who expressed his country’s readiness to assist Vietnam in offshore sand mining, groundwater management, and mineral exploitation.
Authorities in several northern provinces've remained silent as hundreds of thousands of households along Lo river desperately seek help to prevent their farms being swept away by rampant sand mining.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has assigned the Ministry of Construction to study Cambodia’s permanent prohibition on sand exports and the impact on the construction materials market in Vietnam.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has ordered a halt to all sand mining in Dau Tieng Lake, the largest reservoir in the country.
Sand mining activities of a company in northern Phu Tho province have allegedly led to serious erosion and subsequent loss of farmland, leading to public concerns.
The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap is forecast to suffer more landslides along the Tien river, which cost more than 290ha of land together with 320 billion VND (13.91 million USD).
Poor planning and management of sand mining has led to a stunning but unsurprising warning: Vietnam is very likely to run out of sand in less than 15 years.
The People’s Committee of southwestern Tay Ninh province has decided to suspend the mining of sand in the Dau Tieng Reservoir from April 24 to begin an investigation into the activity.
The northern province of Thai Binh has recently declared more than 1,100 restricted areas that can no longer be mined, in a bid to control local mining activities.
