{"id":521449,"date":"2026-06-27T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521449\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:18:19","slug":"2-men-charged-over-illegal-dumping-of-177-tonnes-of-waste-in-northern-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521449\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men charged over illegal dumping of 177 tonnes of waste in northern Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" data-author=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screen-shot-2026-06-26-at-175558-1782471488519670358175-1782534050727391576514.png\" id=\"img_230697402085892096\" w=\"1664\" h=\"1046\" alt=\"2 men charged over illegal dumping of 177 metric tons of waste in northern Vietnam - \u1ea2nh 1.\" title=\"2 men charged over illegal dumping of 177 metric tons of waste in northern Vietnam - \u1ea2nh 1.\" rel=\"lightbox\" photoid=\"230697402085892096\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn2.tuoitre.vn\/471584752817336320\/2026\/6\/27\/screen-shot-2026-06-26-at-175558-1782471488519670358175-1782534050727391576514.png\" type=\"photo\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" width=\"1664\" height=\"1046\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-placeholder=\"Enter photo caption\">Police officers question two men accused of illegally dumping solid waste in Nam Dinh Ward, Ninh Binh Province, northern Vietnam. Photo: Ngoc Son<\/p>\n<p>The case was uncovered by Nam Dinh Ward police during an investigation into environmental violations.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found that a water-covered plot of land, managed by the Nam Dinh Ward People&#8217;s Committee and located in front of 56-year-old Nguyen Van Thu&#8217;s house, had been filled with a large volume of ordinary solid waste.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Thu hired Tran Duc Diep, 44, to transport and dump solid waste to fill about 280 square meters of the site for tree planting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-author=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screen-shot-2026-06-26-at-175615-17824715575961710387197-1782534050739839478612.png\" id=\"img_230697402257858560\" w=\"1672\" h=\"1228\" alt=\"2 men charged over illegal dumping of 177 metric tons of waste in northern Vietnam - \u1ea2nh 2.\" title=\"2 men charged over illegal dumping of 177 metric tons of waste in northern Vietnam - \u1ea2nh 2.\" rel=\"lightbox\" photoid=\"230697402257858560\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn2.tuoitre.vn\/471584752817336320\/2026\/6\/27\/screen-shot-2026-06-26-at-175615-17824715575961710387197-1782534050739839478612.png\" type=\"photo\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" width=\"1672\" height=\"1228\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-placeholder=\"Enter photo caption\">The site where more than 177 metric tons of solid waste were allegedly dumped illegally on public land in Ninh Binh Province, northern Vietnam. Photo: Ngoc Son<\/p>\n<p>Diep made 129 truck trips and illegally dumped more than 177 metric tons of solid waste at the location.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the dumping altered the condition of the public land and posed potential risks of environmental pollution while affecting the landscape, ecosystem and local land management.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the evidence collected, the Ninh Binh provincial police investigation agency charged Thu and Diep for causing environmental pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers question two men accused of illegally dumping solid waste in Nam Dinh Ward, Ninh Binh Province,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-521449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}