Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday failed to pass a non-confidence bill against the government led by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (Front) reacts after winning a no confidence vote in the parliament in Kiev Feb. 5, 2009. Ukraine’s parliament Thursday failed to pass a no confidence bill against government led by Prime [...]
Lookatvietnam – Only about 30 to 45 per cent of Viet Nam’s urban zones are the result of detailed planning, a construction ministry survey shows.And rapid expansion and complex planning procedures are likely to ensure that the rate will not quickly improve.The survey shows that in major cities such as Ha Noi, Hai Phong and [...]
Unlike in recent years, Beijinger Bai Meng did not receive any bonus from her boss this year. But the researcher with an American-owned chemical firm in Beijing still said she would spend the last day before the Spring Festival at one of the capital’s largest supermarkets A local resident shop for “festival necessities” for the [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – A senior health official has admitted that 2008 was “the hardest year” for family planning, with the sector failing to meet a number of targets. The two biggest challenges were the population boom and the predominance of males among newborns.Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Ba Thuy, who is also general director of [...]
The U.S. Treasury said Friday it is ready to save the country’s crippled auto industry from bankruptcy after Congress rejected an auto bailout bill hours earlier. A car trailer is seen outside a Chrysler plant in Detroit, Michigan December 11, 2008. Proposed government bailout of the struggling U.S. auto industry faced uncertainty on Thursday as [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The number of foreign arrivals visiting Hanoi this year has been estimated at 1.3 million, or nine percent lower than the yearly target, according to the Hanoi tourist administration. Cao Thi Ngoc Lan, Deputy Director of the municipal Service of Culture, Sports and Tourism, largely blamed the situation on the global economic [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – For the second year in a row, the equitisation plan will fail to be fulfilled in 2008 with a very low ratio of restructured businesses. 121 state-owned enterprises were restructured in ownership, of which 73 enterprises and enterprise parts were equitised, while the others were either assigned to other managers, sold, dissolved, [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Orders have been canceled, export prices have been forced down, and production scale has been narrowed – all these are the things seafood companies have to face nowadays. Nguyen Van Thang, Deputy Director of Vimex, complained that seafood companies have been struggling with difficulties for the last one year, but the difficulties [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health has estimated that Viet Nam needs to invest between US$120 and $150 million in medical waste treatment systems as matter of urgency to reduce environmental pollution. A medical worker disposes of harmful waste at the Tam Diep Hospital in the northern province of Ninh Binh. Up to US$150 [...]
