September 22, 2011
Nguyen Van Thanh has been known as an active whistleblower in Nghe An. (Photo: Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper) A handmade bomb exploded on Friday inside the house of a former prosecutor who has been honored as an active anti-corruption whistleblower in central Vietnam, but there was no casualty, police said. The bomb exploded at around 11 [...]
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September 9, 2011
Vietnam has to get very tough or the flood of illegal Chinese workers will continue Chinese workers at a construction site in the south-central province of Phu Yen. Thousands of illegal workers will continue taking jobs from Vietnamese workers if the Vietnamese government does not take action now, analysts say. There will be no [...]
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February 28, 2011
Red tape and a lack of funding have reduced Vietnam’s first national heritage village to a decaying tourist trap while officials near Hue argue that stalled preservation plans should be abandoned in two villages Harvest day in Duong Lam Village Six years ago, the people of Duong Lam Village had the esteemed honor of [...]
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February 5, 2010
Eighty percent of the four million overseas Vietnamese would like to buy a house in Vietnam, says the head of the HCM Committee for Liaison with Vietnamese Abroad. So why don’t they? A meeting between HCM City’s officials and overseas Vietnamese. A few days ago, the media reported that since 2005, only 140 Viet Kieu (VK, or overseas [...]
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December 2, 2009
Newspaper readers around the world have been amazed by the story of a 55 year-old farmer who has been sleeping with his wife’s remains for five years. Le Van and the statue containing his wife’s bones. This man is Le Van. He lives in a small house with his three younger children and the remains of his [...]
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August 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Domestic retailers say that local officials are too lenient when foreign retailers seek permission to establish new outlets. When Vietnam joined the WTO, it was agreed that it could restrict the expansion of foreign retailers by subjecting applications for additional branches to an “economic needs test” or ENT. Vietnamese domestic retailers are now [...]
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August 7, 2009
(L-R) Nguyen Phi Duy Linh, Duong Tien and Dinh Cong Sat at the trial in Da Nang City Thursday The trial of three officials and one Da Nang citizen charged with defaming local officials opened Thursday in the central city. Major-General Tran Van Thanh, former chief inspector of the Ministry of Public Security, was not [...]
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July 20, 2009
Vietnamâs leading rice expert Vo Tong Xuan (2, R) visits a farm in Nigeria that is growing Vietnamese rice using techniques developed in the Mekong Delta The University of Liberia has requested the assistance of Vietnamese experts in rice cultivation to help African farmers adopt new techniques at a faster pace and on a larger [...]
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June 2, 2009
Dinh Thi Ha shows off the wound caused by a cluster bomb pellet on the body of her several-months-old baby Le Quynh Anh (C) at her tailor shop in the northern province of Bac Giang on April 10. At first, Dinh Thi Bac thought the blast came from a blown tire as someone drove past [...]
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May 27, 2009
Tran Van hong’s family in Kien Giang Province is poor but must pay money into various “social funds” Officials nationwide, especially in the rural areas, have been forcing residents, even the poor, to contribute money to voluntary âsocietyâ funds. Many of the funds are supposed to be optional but residents said they had been âforciblyâ [...]
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