Vietnam police arrest senior official over illicit sand mining

Hanoi (AFP) Dec 25, 2023

Police in Vietnam arrested a top provincial official on Monday in an investigation into illegal sand mining, the government said. Mining sand - mainly for concrete used in construction - has boomed in Vietnam in recent years, prompting dire warnings over the environmental impact of overexploitation. Nguyen Thanh Binh, the chairman of the people's committee in An Giang province in the M