January 14, 2012
There has been a fair amount written recently about various institutional cartels that are thriving in the US despite antitrust laws designed to prevent their existence. My previous column compared Wall Street’s few remaining investment banks to a cartel, with explicit pricing power over its hundreds of thousands of customers, an advantage that will [...]
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October 30, 2011
A Qantas plane is seen grounded among smaller aircrafts at Perth international airport October 29, 2011. Qantas Airways sparred with unions at a second labor tribunal on Sunday after Australia’s prime minister called for an end to the industrial dispute that grounded the airline’s entire fleet, stranding tens of thousands of passengers around the world. [...]
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August 13, 2011
Government would do well to keep people informed about its actions on the East Sea conflict, prominent lawmaker asserts  The government stands to gain a lot, and lose nothing, if people know about the actions it is taking on the East Sea conflict, an outspoken legislator has said. An informed public would help [...]
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July 5, 2011
Vietnam-China relations expert discusses East Sea disputes on Hong Kong based television. PhD Vu Cao Phan, a researcher on Vietnam-China relations and deputy chairman of Vietnam-China Friendship Society, last week had an interview with Phoenix Television, a Hong Kong-based Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese television broadcaster. Phan spoke on behalf of the Institute of Chinese Studies [...]
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May 31, 2011
This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan [...]
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February 5, 2010
Vietnam has launched its first dispute at the World Trade Organization with a case against US anti-dumping measures on its key exports of shrimp. The country only joined the global trade arbiter three years ago, and its economy like China’s has benefited strongly from membership in the world trading system and its rules.The trade dispute [...]
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January 20, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Over the last six years, commercial arbitrators have settled only 280 disputes. According to the Ministry of Justice, the HCM City Economic Court every year deals with 1,000-1,100 economic dispute cases, which is 30 times higher than the number of disputes settled by the biggest arbitration service in Vietnam, the Vietnam International Arbitration [...]
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December 14, 2009
Over 100 angry people crowded into Phu My Hung Company’s office on November 11, demanding that the investor provide them with documents on real estate projects, but they were prevented by guards. People were prevented by guards from seeing the firm’s officials. Dispute at HCM City’s model residential areaResidents file official complaint against Phu My Hung Residents [...]
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December 7, 2009
Land use taxes need to be revised to resolve the ongoing dispute between homeowners and developers in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs Phu My Hung residential area once and for all, a government advisor has said. The dispute has revolved around who should pay land use taxes, but the real problem is whether the tax rates [...]
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December 5, 2009
Vietnamese soldiers in a flag-saluting ceremony on the Truong Sa Archipelago Escalating tensions over the oil-rich East Sea could be eased temporarily by a joint-exploitation agreement and then resolved permanently under international laws, scholars said at a workshop in Hanoi Friday. The issue was discussed during the two-day event that attracted more than 150 scholars [...]
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