Archive for August, 2011

ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 31/8

August 31, 2011

Local website to use copyrighted songs legally NCT Corporation, the owner of popular Vietnamese music website www.nhaccuatui.com, will sign a contract with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment on Tuesday for the right to use their songs. According to the contract, NCT will pay these two labels for the songs it will use for [...]

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Conductor Le Phi Phi’s personal view in photography

August 31, 2011
Conductor Le Phi Phi’s personal view in photography

LookAtVietnam – VietNamNet’s annual “Everlasting Things” concert is also accompanied with an exhibition. This year, it will be supported by the photo exhibition of conductor Le Phi Phi. In 2009, the first “Everlasting Things” concert was accompanied by old, valuable pictures of Hanoi in the past. In 2010, it was the collection of colorful paintings [...]

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Westlife’s Gravity Tour to come to Vietnam this October

August 31, 2011
Westlife’s Gravity Tour to come to Vietnam this October

LookAtVietnam – The Irish boyband will bring its “Gravity Tour” to Hanoi’s My Dinh National Stadium on October 1. The show organizers, An Thuan Media and Alatca Media, on August 31, announced official information about the “Gravity Tour” on October 1. The band will perform 20 songs, including its hits like “Swear It Again”, “My [...]

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State audit reveals breaches

August 31, 2011
State audit reveals breaches

LookAtVietnam – The 2009 audit report, published yesterday, Aug 30, by the State Audit Office of Viet Nam (SAV), revealed many violations in financial management. Workers at the Petro Vietnam Group’s Can Tho Petroleum Depot operate an oil supply system. The group is one of 27 State-owned enterprises with profits revealed in the 2009 audit [...]

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Happiness on amnesty day

August 31, 2011
Happiness on amnesty day

LookAtVietnam – Many prisoners at the Thanh Xuan prison in Hanoi were released under the amnesty decision on the occasion of the National Day. VietNamNet’s Tuyet Nhung captured the happiness of prisoners and their families on the amnesty day (August 29). Awaiting relatives in the scorching sun. Holding the amnesty decision, Bui Thi Thanh from [...]

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Stock index keeps falling, billionaires’ assets evaporating

August 31, 2011
Stock index keeps falling, billionaires’ assets evaporating

LookAtVietnam – Since the stock prices keep decreasing, the huge assets of stock billionaires have eroded. Multi-billions of dong vanished into the air   In the list of the 10 richest stock billionaires in 2010 includes familiar names such as Doan Nguyen Duc, Chair of the Hoang Anh-Gia Lai Group, who is holding the volume [...]

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Enterprises ask for more gold import quotas

August 31, 2011
Enterprises ask for more gold import quotas

LookAtVietnam – A lot of gold companies have revealed that they have proposed the State Bank of Vietnam to grant more quotas for gold imports, saying that more imports would help increase the domestic supply and ease the “gold fever”. An executive of the Saigon Jewelry Company (SJC) said that in August, the company imported [...]

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GOVERNMENT IN BRIEF 31/8

August 31, 2011
GOVERNMENT IN BRIEF 31/8

China defence ties to be increased Viet Nam and China have agreed to promote bilateral defence co-operation following the conclusion of the 2nd Viet Nam-China Strategic Defence and Security Dialogue in Beijing yesterday, Aug 30. The dialogue was co-chaired by Vietnamese Deputy Defence Minister, Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh; and Chinese Deputy Chief of General [...]

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Forced to pay tax arrears, Honda threatens to reconsider investment in Vietnam

August 31, 2011
Forced to pay tax arrears, Honda threatens to reconsider investment in Vietnam

LookAtVietnam – Honda Vietnam has announced that it would reconsider the production and business plan in Vietnam in the future, in case it has to pay the tax arrears of 160 million dollars, or 3340 billion dong. Meanwhile, the Japanese Embassy has come forward and asked Vietnamese competent agencies to reconsider the tax imposition.   [...]

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Bank of America kept AIG legal threat under wraps 

August 31, 2011
Bank of America kept AIG legal threat under wraps 

The American International Group (AIG) building is seen in New York's financial district March 16, 2009. Top Bank of America Corp lawyers knew as early as January that American International Group Inc was prepared to sue the bank for more than $10 billion, seven months before the lawsuit was filed, according to sources familiar with [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...