December 1, 2011
A National Assembly session in progress Vietnam’s parliament Saturday agreed to begin drafting a law on demonstration during its office term from now until 2016, the VnExpress newswire reported Saturday. According to the unicameral National Assembly’s Standing Committee, the law needs to be drafted to create a legal tool for Vietnamese people to enjoy their rights and for [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnam lawmakers on Tuesday opposed draft adjustments to the current labor law, saying that an increase in regulated overtime is not what laborers want. The proposal being discussed at the National Assembly aims to increase the maximum annual overtime from 200 hours to 360 hours. Cu Thi Hau, a lawmaker from the northern province of Hung [...]
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November 22, 2011
Vietnam’s lawmakers said Friday they did not agree that the heavier cash fines proposed by a draft law will be able to deter administrative violations. Ngo Van Minh, a lawmaker from the central province of Quang Nam, said while people keep complaining that current fines aren’t heavy enough to deter violations, they have ignored another [...]
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November 19, 2011
Workers on strike at a Ho Chi Minh City-based company. A bill on demonstration has sparked controversy at the Vietnam National Assembly’s sitting on Thursday, as some lawmakers find the law unnecessary, while others disagree. Hoang Huu Phuoc, a member of the legislature from Ho Chi Minh City, proposed the National Assembly not introduce the Law on [...]
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November 16, 2011
Bill on Denunciation would discredit the press as tattle-tales German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center, R) and Ho Chi Minh City Mayor Le Hoang Quan (center, L) surrounded by the press in front of city hall during her visit to HCMC on October 12. An article in the draft Law on Denunciation has come under [...]
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November 9, 2011
Vietnamese lawmakers backed a plan that aims for annual economic growth of as much as 7 percent through 2015 and seeks to quell Asia’s highest inflation. The National Assembly approved an objective of 6.5 percent to 7 percent annual economic expansion from 2011 to 2015 and a goal of reducing inflation to 5 percent [...]
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November 5, 2011
Vietnam’s public debt will probably be higher than estimated, as the Ministry of Finance has missed including in its calculations several kinds of debt related to the government, lawmakers said at the National Assembly’s meeting on Friday. According to the National Assembly’s Finance and Budget Committee, their review showed that the country’s public debt will [...]
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July 26, 2011
President Barack Obama speaks in a prime-time address to the nation from the East Room of the White House in Washington. The United States edged closer on Tuesday to a devastating default as Republicans and Democrats deadlocked over competing plans to raise the debt ceiling, one week before a deadline to act. President Barack Obama, [...]
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July 23, 2011
US President Barack Obama makes a statement to the media at the White House. US President Barack Obama angrily summoned top lawmakers for crisis talks Saturday on averting a disastrous early August debt default that could send shockwaves through the fragile global economy. With an August 2 deadline fast approaching, Obama warned that polarized lawmakers [...]
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May 24, 2011
A British lawmaker defied a court ruling Monday by naming Ryan Giggs as the footballer who used an injunction to keep details of an alleged affair secret, escalating a row over privacy laws and the Internet. Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming named the Manchester United player using his centuries-old right to freedom of speech [...]
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