Hanoi, March 1, 2025 (AFP) - Vietnam drags feet over 'urgent' pollution problem

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2025-03-01

Toxic smoke billows from a burning mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen's farm in Hanoi, a city battling an alarming air pollution surge that the communist government appears in no hurry to fix. In the last three months the Vietnamese capital has regularly topped a list of the world's most polluted major cities, leaving its nine million residents struggling to breathe and even to see through a thick blanket of smog. Despite a string o......

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