November 6, 2011
A pipe discharges wastewater into a river in Dong Nai. Vietnam southern industrial hub Dong Nai has invested more than US$301,800 into environment protection projects until 2015.  The money will also be used to reduce environmental pollution at industrial zones and urban areas in the province.  A Vietnam News Agency report on Friday said [...]
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October 11, 2011
Workers of Taiwanese-owned footwear company Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, on strike last year. A former official from the Ministry of Public Security says the right to strike needs to be protected by laws in Vietnam. The Law on Demonstration is being drafted by the Ministry [...]
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August 9, 2011
Farmers in Tan An Commune submit complaints about the Sonadezi Corporation at the commune People's Committee office. Eleven households in the southern province of Dong Nai lodged complaints on Monday against the state-owned Sonadezi Corporation for damaging their seafood farms by discharging sewage into a local river. The farmers in Tam An Commune, Long Thanh [...]
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January 28, 2010
LookAtVietnam – With the ambition to become an ideal destination of the key southern economic zone, Tien Giang province has provided numerous perks to attract investors. According to Le Van Huong, Director of Tien Giang Planning and Investment Department, the province attracted three industrial foreign direct investment (FDI) projects capitalized at $35.5 million. These projects [...]
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December 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The rush to meet end-of-year contract deadlines among producers has created a huge demand for labourers. Young people at a job fair in Tan Binh District, HCM City. Contract deadlines at the end of the year increase the demand for labours among producers.Do Thanh Dong, director of Bac Ninh Job Placement Centre, said [...]
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November 28, 2009
Only a month before his death, former PM Vo Van Kiet expressed concern about irregularities in the prosecution of Tran Ngoc Suong to the Can Tho City Party Committee. LookAtVietnam – Only a month before his death in June 2008, former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet expressed concern about apparent irregularities in the prosecution of [...]
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November 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Workers in industrial zones accept long overtime hours because they fear losing their jobs or having their salary cut. Nguyen Thi Dan from the HCM City Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs. LookAtVietnam – Workers in industrial zones accept long overtime hours because they fear losing their jobs or having their [...]
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October 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The National Assembly deputies yesterday discussed amendments to the laws on Value-Added Tax and the Corporate Income Tax. Workers of a machine spare parts company assemble rice harvesting machines. Amendments to the laws on Value Added Tax and the Corporate Income Tax were discussed on October 26 by NA deputies.Ten of the 11 [...]
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October 10, 2009
Hard work, cheap food, no social life, dreams of escape – the life of the women workers of Vietnam’s industrial zones unfolds in two places only: their rented rooms and their workshops. Many workers don’t have even a bicycle. There’s nothing glamorous about the lives of the young women who work on the assembly lines of [...]
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October 6, 2009
LookAtVietnam – We return to the industrial zones to examine how workers lives cruelly fluctuate from unemployment to overwork. Workers, who feared layoffs earlier this year, now have another issue to face as the economy strengthens. Being expected to clock up to 300 hours per month – the equivalent of ten hours every single day. [...]
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