ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS GROW AS VIETNAM’S TEXTILE SECTOR SECURES INVESTMENT
May 1st, 2016
CONCERN is growing that foreign direct investment (FDI) within Vietnam, including in the textile sector, needs to be tempered with efforts to deter unlimited environmental pollution. Public opinion in Vietnam - important even within this one party officially communist state – has been riled by mass fish deaths off Vietnam’s central coast, with environmentalists blaming a toxic leak from a steel mill in April receiving investment from Taiwan, a key investor in Vietnam’s textile sector. As the garment and textile sectors are significant contributors to ...
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