January 21, 2012
The Raffles International Training Center Hanoi has been fined and ordered to suspend its illegal diploma and bachelor courses, more than two weeks after similar action was taken against its sister organization in for the same violations. According to its registration license, the center can open short vocational courses in English, Marketing, Business Administration, [...]
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January 11, 2012
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has hauled up four educational institutions, including a Singaporean one, and fined some of them for illicitly offering degree and higher-level courses though they are not licensed to do so. Raffles in Vietnam, a member of the Singaporean-owned Education Corporation, is permitted by the Ho Chi Minh [...]
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December 30, 2011
Cao Hong Son, a disabled athelete, has been fined US$950 for making a bomb threat at the Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat Airport. AÂ man was fined Thursday VND20 million (US$950) for making a bomb threat when he was taking a flight to a sporting event for athletes with physical disabilities in Indonesia. Cao [...]
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September 25, 2011
A promotional spam message sent to a mobile phone. Individuals and organizations using telecommunication devices to send spam with sex and some other contents will be fined up to 50 million (US$2,400), according to a government resolution Tuesday.  Spammers caught sending spam about gambling, fortune telling, sex, violence and superstition will be fined between VND30-50 [...]
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June 1, 2011
Forty-year-old Chinese Guo Liangcai lost his wife, children, two siblings and friends in a boat accident last Friday in the southern province of Binh Duong. Guo Liangcai’s voice never stopped quavering. “I don’t know how I will handle the truth,” he told Thanh Nien Weekly over the phone last Tuesday. The 40-year-old Chinese businessman spoke [...]
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May 15, 2011
Poor signage has added to the frustration of Ho Chi Minh City’s hellacious traffic conditions A total of 13 signs had been posted in a dense cluster at a section near Sai Gon Bridge that links Binh Thanh District and District 2 in Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Huu Long was really upset when [...]
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January 15, 2011
Security guards attempting to obstruct a photographer at a fire scene in District 1 last September. A new government decree seeks, for the first time, to slap fines on those who impede journalists on duty. A Vietnamese government decree that will take effect next month spells out new penalties for those who obstruct or fail [...]
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November 8, 2010
Two trucks at a private parking lot in Binh Chanh, HCMC where the red military license plates have been put on civil vehicles Many transport firms in Ho Chi Minh City are putting a military coat on their trucks to ease their way past traffic police.  They rent military trucks that are out of date, [...]
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January 10, 2010
A man smokes a cigarette at Tu Du Maternity Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City Experts say it will take time and persistence before the ban becomes self-enforcing. Truong Hoang Duy returned to Ho Chi Minh City after a trip to Singapore saying he had smoked just four cigarettes during his four-day holiday.Duy, an English [...]
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December 12, 2009
Hanoi was once considered “a city of green trees” but the rapidly developing capital faces a daily battle to maintain a presentable face. Around the clock city council cleaners traipse the streets of Hanoi collecting trash, which has been unceremoniously dumped by city residents or left behind by vendors or street side stalls. At 2am [...]
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