October 8, 2011
A long-term cost/benefit analysis of tax policy against state revenues and spending could benefit the country as corporate taxes account for a major portion of revenues A man leaves away after closing his factory, which makes blankets, pillows and mattresses, in Ngoc Nu village outside Hanoi June 23, 2011. As Vietnam fights to beat [...]
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June 26, 2011
The four defendants during the first trial on March 29, 2011. The Vietnamese supreme court Wednesday increased jail terms for two women and a man found guilty of illegally providing marriage brokering services for Chinese men when the case was considered on appeal. Trinh Thi Thu, 52, got eight years instead of the six years [...]
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June 22, 2011
As of June 10, credit had expanded 7.05 percent compared to the end of last year The central bank has increased its foreign exchange reserves due to an improving trend in the balance of payments and recent measures to support the local currency, Governor Nguyen Van Giau said. It had not been easy to increase the [...]
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June 19, 2011
No headway can be made against drinking and driving if punitive measures are not meted out strictly and obviously Vu The Bang, 65, of Binh Phuoc Province’s Dong Phu District crashed into a parking truck in drunk condition and was killed on the spot in an accident last June. The government is discussing a [...]
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June 19, 2011
The popular diabetes drug Actos was pulled off the market after French scientists linked it to an increased risk of bladder cancer. The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) called for doctors to use caution in prescribing a pair of diabetes drugs after a French study linked their long-term use to an increased risk of bladder [...]
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June 11, 2011
The Vietnamese hospitality market performed better in 2010 than at any time since before the financial crisis, with considerable increases in both average room and occupancy rates in high-end hotels and resorts across the country, a survey found. The survey, released by the accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh [...]
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May 2, 2011
A recent proposal by the Ministry of Finance to raise taxable income threshold to VND5 million (US$238) from the current VND4 million ($190) will not help ease financial burdens in the context of rising consumer prices, according to experts. Le Quoc Dung, vice chairman of the Economic Commission of the National Assembly, said the [...]
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April 25, 2011
Careless driving, disregard for the law and weak implementation combine to kill increasing numbers of people in road traffic accidents The wrecked vehicles in an accident involving a bus and a freezer truck on April 18 in the north-central province of Ha Tinh that killed three and injured twenty others Five-year-old Ly thinks her [...]
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April 19, 2011
Corals are seen at the Great Barrier Reef in this January 2002 handout photo. Rapidly warming ocean temperatures in some parts of the world could be pushing some fish species to the limit, stunting their growth, increasing stress and raising the risk of death, a study shows. An Australian study, published on Monday in the [...]
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April 11, 2011
Vietnam’s central bank raised the amount of dollar deposits lenders must set aside as cash to curb the use of foreign currency in the nation and stabilize the dong. The reserve ratio on deposits held in the US currency will increase by 2 percentage points to a range from 3 percent to 6 percent [...]
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