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Hanoi's Loudspeakers to Be Reintroduced by 2025

In August 2017, former Hanoi Chairman Nguyen-Duk-Chung announced a plan to gradually remove the city's loudspeakers and refocus on communications to digital devices. So they plan to reintroduce them to every ward and commune of the capital by 2025. But residents say that this makes little sense in an era of smartphones and rampant noise pollution. A recent poll reportedly found that 70% of the city's population are against the loudspeakers.

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