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The Hau Giang Solar Power Plant, which was built on a 33-hectare plot in Hoa An Commune, Phung Hiep District, Hau Giang Province, Vietnam. Photo: Le Dan / Tuoi Tre
A new solar energy plant in Hau Giang Province, Vietnam, which required an investment of VND700 billion (US$30.5 million), was inaugurated on Monday.
The Hau Giang Solar Power Plant was built on a 33-hectare plot in Hoa An Commune, Phung Hiep District.
With a design capacity of 35 megawatt-peak, the power plant is expected to produce 50,800 megawatt-hours of electricity and reap VND80 billion ($3.5 million) in revenue per year.
The facility was built by a consortium led by Halcom Vietnam JSC and SE Corporation from Japan.
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17/01/2021 13:04 GMT+7
Ninh Thuan has a reputation as the land of “little rain and too much sun and wind”. Rocky hills and mountains extend down to Vietnam’s south-central coast of bays, white sands, golden sunlight, and turquoise waters.
The province also boasts a range of historical relic sites and diverse cultures, along with agricultural products that make for great souvenirs. It now has plans to become a new travel hotspot in the country and the region by identifying what measures will make it so.
State Media
Vietnam has added new information controls ahead of a ruling Communist Party Congress, setting up an “Anti-Fake News Center” and threatening to punish any leak of leadership candidates, new curbs on top of a 2020 crackdown that saw intensified repression of civil and political rights.
The launch of the center comes less than two weeks before the opening of Vietnam’s 13
th party congress, where the party will secretly select a list of candidates for senior party positions over the next five years.
In a stern warning to potential candidates and media, an official overseeing the confidential election told state media that anyone responsible for leaking or publishing false or secret information about the process would be punished under Vietnamese law.
Photo: RFA
Rights activists and relatives of political prisoners in Vietnam called this week for sanctions to be imposed on Vietnamese officials deemed responsible for torture and other abuses in the country’s jails, as criticism of Hanoi’s repression of critics and dissenters mounts around the world.
The call comes as authorities in Hanoi prepare for the Jan. 25 launch of the 13
th ruling Communist Party Congress, cited by activists and rights experts as the reason Vietnam’s already low tolerance of dissent deteriorated sharply in 2020 with the round-up of independent journalists, publishers, and Facebook commentators.
Speaking in interviews with RFA, rights workers and family members of prisoners called for international action to be taken against Vietnamese authorities held responsible for suppressing dissent, with the possible enforcement of sanctions and travel bans under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act a U.S. law named after a Russia