November 11, 2011
In 1989, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published her famous essay, “The Journalist and the Murderer,” with its notoriously overheated opening sentence: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” This was back in the era [...]
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October 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The national health insurance fund is projected to exceed its budget by VND2 trillion (US$112,359 million) in 2009 due to the skyrocketing drug prices The health insurance sector found it difficult to cope with illegal prices because they were not directly involved with the hospital’s drug bidding committee.Prices on special drugs, such as [...]
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August 27, 2009
Among Hanoi’s thousands of cafés, the Dem Vong Café has enjoyed an unusual popularity - it’s been the venue for fashion shows by five openly transsexual ‘girls.’ Five members of Pattaya group. In HCM City, transsexuals are no longer uncommon. They often appear at cafes, bars, hairdressing salons and tea-shops. Not so in Hanoi. The show at Dem Vong Café [...]
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July 5, 2009
Some experts share their opinions about China’s arrest of Vietnamese fishing boats and fishermen. Doctor of law Tran Cong Truc, former chief of the government’s Border Committee: This case is causing great spiritual and material losses for fishermen and difficulties for the relationship between Vietnam and China. Government agencies must join to make clear the [...]
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