LookAtVietnam – As they catch the last bus home for the Tet holidays, migrant labourers like Huan, a porter at Ha Noi’s Long Bien Market, dream of sitting around at the family dinner on New Year’s Eve. Tran Xuan Huan, 37, from northern Hung Yen Province, has worked as a porter for five years. [...]
LookAtVietnam – District and commune leaders will be held responsible if firecrackers and flaming sky lanterns are detected in their localities during Tet. The Hanoi People’s Committee said anyone involved in making, carrying, storing, selling or using firecrackers and sky lanterns would be charged with an offence. The chairman of the municipal People’s [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi Market Watch has warned customers city-wide about substandard foods which have increasingly been uncovered prior to Tet (Lunar New Year). The substandard foods include smuggled poultry, decomposed animal organs and expired sweets. Nguyen Cong Khan, Director of the Ministry of Health’s Department for Food Safety, said that [...]
LookAtVietnam – The Prime Minister has requested cabinet members and localities intensify management over the market to ensure prices are stable, especially during the traditional New Year (Tet) festival. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the request while chairing the first cabinet meeting of the year in Hanoi on January 28. He reminded [...]
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam borrowed an additional $1 billion in 2010, raising its total foreign debt to $29 billion, according to the Ministry of Finance. It was equivalent to around 28 percent of Vietnam’s GDP of $104 billion last year. Of the amount government debt accounted for $25 billion and loans for state-run companies and [...]
LookAtVietnam – About 800 overseas Vietnamese from different countries and territories yesterday gathered at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel, the newly recognised UNESCO World Heritage site in Hanoi, to join the 2011 Homeland Spring programme to welcome the traditional lunar New Year festival, the Year of the Cat. The live broadcast programme was jointly [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The ninth National Vovinam Championships in Algeria closed on January 28 in the Algiers capital in the presence of Vietnamese Ambassador Do Trong Cuong and Algerian sport officials. This year’s event drew 580 athletes from 80 clubs of 22 provinces of the North African country. The first club of Vovinam [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza) has said it will compel all those factories emitting smoke at industrial parks (IP) and export processing zones (EPZ) to build treatment facilities by the year-end. Ngo Anh Tuan, vice head of Hepza, told the Daily on Wednesday some 50 businesses [...]
LookAtVietnam – The deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Directorate of Forestry, Ha Cong Tuan, spoke to Dai Doan Ket (Great Unity) newspaper about illegal logging activities. Illegal logging is attributed as being one of major reasons for the floods in the central region this year. What is your assessment of [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam plans to test the Wolbachia bacterium’s effectiveness in eradicating mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus. The test is being conducted in accordance with a five-year project that is being co-operatively managed by Australia’s University of Queensland and the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology of Viet Nam. The Bill and [...]
