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Hoang Phuong On a field in Dai Thinh Commune one summer afternoon, ducklings could be seen swimming next to a herd of nearly 30 cattle grazing on an unused piece of land. That plot of land and that ditch with water are in fact the site of a project by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation that has been in limbo for over a decade. If it had looked anything like in the project's blueprint, the ducks and cattle would be replaced by 15-story apartment buildings, a series of low-rise buildings, supermarkets, swimming pools, and parks. Me Linh District was touted as an "ideal living space" with urban areas, gardens and mansions to reduce the capital's population density, sending land prices soaring in the area. All over western Hanoi, we can now find such scenes of abandoned projects with herds of cattle grazing casually. Ha Dong, Hoa Lac, Thach That and many other places that should have become the new living spaces for Hanoians are now wastelands. Meanwhile, inside the city, 10 … [Read more...] about Motorbike ban cannot absolve Hanoi of infrastructure failure

Asia is where most of the economic growth will happen, experts say, as Chinese villages turn into megacities and similar phenomena become evident across the continent, including Vietnam. The World Economic Forum has predicted that the next billion members of the world’s middle class will come from Asia. However, these impressive figures, the higher living standards and rising wealth generation have been accompanied by a disaster of unimagined proportions that both citizens and policymakers are not paying sufficient attention to, in terms of long term ameliorative measures. There is literally aplenty on the scale of the problems caused by rising levels of air pollution across the country caused by heavy industries and rapidly increasing number of motorized vehicle owners. Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, only had 38 days of "clear air" (an AQI below 100) in 2017, with average pollution four times higher than those deemed acceptable by the World Health Organization's air quality … [Read more...] about Slowly, but surely, an invisible poison is choking Vietnamese cities