Mining Project Brings Risks

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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended the initiation of a the construction of an aluminium refinery plant in the central highland province of Dak Nong on February 28 only weeks after two popular websites criticising the projects were blocked. Relations with China, which ruled Vietnam for more than a thousand years, remains among the most contentious subjects in Vietnam and the construction of another Chinese-financed aluminium plant in neighbouring Lam Dong caused widespread protests in 2008 and 2009. We believe that protests against the new plant will strain relations between Beijing and Hanoi in