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HANOI: A high-profile environmentalist and anti-coal campaigner in Vietnam has been jailed for two years on tax evasion charges, her NGO said on Saturday.Nguy Thi Khanh, a globally recognised climate and energy campaigner, was sentenced in Hanoi on Friday, a court official confirmed to AFP without giving any further details.The 46-year-old -- who was arrested in February “on a tax evasion accusation”, according to state-owned media -- had been among the few in the communist nation challenging the government’s plans to increase coal power to fuel economic development.Khanh, the first Vietnamese winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, had convinced officials to strip 20,000 megawatts of coa

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