Posts Tagged ‘ Claimed ’

Vietnam Airlines violating rules on hiring pilots 

December 20, 2011
Vietnam Airlines violating rules on hiring pilots 

  No disciplinary measures taken after civil aviation authority finds national carrier breached its own procedures and regulations A Vietnam Airlines aircraft taxiing at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport. The national flag carrier has broken its own rules in hiring foreign pilots, an inquiry has found. National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has been breaking its [...]

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I don’t need no education 

August 28, 2011
I don’t need no education 

11-year-old Pham Thanh Ngoc gets her math homework checked by a local math teacher. The girl recently applied for a public high school Pham Thanh Ngoc did not drop out of school. She just refused to go to school, from kindergarten onward. However, Ngoc’s reluctance to attend school was not of the usual variety. It [...]

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Illegal animal skins a booming business in Vietnam 

August 13, 2011
Illegal animal skins a booming business in Vietnam 

Toys for sale on a sidewalk in HCMC. The seller claimed they were made with real animal skins. The illegal animal skin trade is robust and thriving in Ho Chi Minh City and across Vietnam, according to a Tuoi Tre investigation. Nghia, an animal leather dealer from Dong Nai Province near HCMC, said that langour [...]

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Passenger rejects civil aviation administration finding  

May 22, 2011
Passenger rejects civil aviation administration finding  

Le Minh Khuong is the coach of the national taekwondo team. Vietnam’s national taekwondo team coach Le Minh Khuong says he will protest a decision by the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) to fine him for disrupting a Vietnam Airlines flight last month. Le Minh Khuong, 50, refused to sign the finding of CAAV’s [...]

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Lost children 

February 6, 2011
Lost children 

  After nearly five years of searching, a village in Quang Binh is finally getting answers about the fate of 13 children A Ruc mother in Quang Binh Province holds up photos of her two children. She claims a local center sent them out of the country without her consent. The Italian International Adoption Commission [...]

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Passengers scammed by airport taxi drivers 

December 20, 2010
Passengers scammed by airport taxi drivers 

Tourists wait for a taxi at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Last month, Tran Thuy An got off a plane at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport and hailed a cab. A Happy Taxi (a subsidiary of the Tram Thanh Company) pulled up to the curb and An stepped in. [...]

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Worst auction ever 

December 7, 2010
Worst auction ever 

A scene of Gia Gia Gemstone Company’s charity auction held at the Queen Plaza on November 11 in Ho Chi Minh City. On November 11th nearly 80 Miss Earth contestants, gathered at Queen Plaza in downtown Ho Chi Minh City for a gala charity dinner organized by the Gia Gia Gemstone Company. Local singers crooned [...]

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Injured kids tell of harrowing escape from orphanage 

November 15, 2010
Injured kids tell of harrowing escape from orphanage 

Diep Tuan Khoa, 6, (L) and Le Gia Huy, 5 say they ran away from Dong Nai Charity House because a teacher there beat and abused them Police in Ho Chi Minh City took in four children on Monday who said they had been beaten and tortured by the staff of an orphanage in neighboring [...]

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Officials say many foreign manufacturers found to be declaring ‘virtual’ losses

September 3, 2009
Officials say many foreign manufacturers found to be declaring ‘virtual’ losses

LookAtVietnam – Many of the foreign invested enterprises reporting losses in 2008 seem to be profitable businesses which have doctored their returns to evade Vietnamese taxes. The appearance of losses Fifty-two percent of some 2,000 tax returns submitted to the HCM City Tax Department in 2008 by foreign-owned or foreign invested enterprises claimed a business loss. [...]

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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...