Posts Tagged ‘ Nai Province ’

The music doctor 

May 16, 2011
The music doctor 

  The 62-year-old doctor Nguyen Van Tho (L) with a patient. The soft tunes of Beethoven’s Symphony 4b waft through the room. A middle-aged man is on a bed listening with his eyes closed. Dr. Nguyen Van Tho stands attentive next to the bed. “What do you see? What does the music bring you?” Dr. Tho, [...]

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Road builders arrested following fatal accident 

April 9, 2011
Road builders arrested following fatal accident 

  Authorities determined to halt sloppy road construction send a strong message to road builders The road construction site along National Road 51 connecting Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Dong Nai provinces. Police in Dong Nai Province’s Long Thanh District have arrested two officials of Licogi 9.2, the road construction company, for careless construction practices which [...]

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Top lawyer, also a legislator, plays key role in drafting bills

February 8, 2010
Top lawyer, also a legislator, plays key role in drafting bills

“Attending National Assembly sessions is a bit stressful because we sit for days, but actually, I’m more stressed on my ‘normal’ days,” says Deputy Pham Quoc Anh in an interview with VietNamNet.    Pham Quoc Anh was born in April 11 1940 in the northern province of Hung Yen. He lives in Hanoi at present. Concurrent with [...]

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Ex-officials tried for tax exemption tricks in southern Vietnam

January 31, 2010
Ex-officials tried for tax exemption tricks in southern Vietnam

Dang Thi Bach Tuyet (Front), a former official at the Dong Nai Province Tax Agency, is examined on Tuesday The trial of six former senior tax officials charged with allowing a Taiwanese-invested fisheries company to evade years of taxes began Tuesday. The defendants include Phan Van Hien and Vu Xuan Hieu, two former deputy heads [...]

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1st section of Thu Thiem tunnel to be in place in March

January 4, 2010
1st section of Thu Thiem tunnel to be in place in March

The first section of the Thu Thiem tunnel under HCM City’s Saigon River will be put in place in March this year, its managers told visiting Minister of Transport Ho Nghia Dung. Workers at a construction site in Nhon Trach District, Dong Nai Province, where the four sections of the Thu Thiem tunnel under HCMC’s [...]

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Vedan’s actions continue to hurt Dong Nai farmers

December 19, 2009
Vedan’s actions continue to hurt Dong Nai farmers

Abandoned shrimp ponds in Phuoc Thai Commune in Dong Nai Province. With the waters of Thi Vai River beginning to clear up after MSG-maker Vedan was forced to stop discharging untreated effluents into it, farmers living along its banks decided to shift from breeding fish to shrimp. Still hurting from losses inflicted by Vedan’s pollution [...]

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Golf club expansion under scrutiny

December 9, 2009
Golf club expansion under scrutiny

LookAtVietnam – The public has questioned the legality of reclaiming cropping land for the expansion of Long Thanh Golf Club in southern Dong Nai Province. People play golf at Long Thanh golf-court in Dong Nai Province. The 16ha extension of the greens may have been done without Government approval.The 16ha expansion by Long Thanh Golf [...]

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It’s official: Vedan killed the Thi Vai river

December 8, 2009
It’s official: Vedan killed the Thi Vai river

A technical survey briefed to local government leaders and representatives of Vedan Vietnam concludes that the MSG maker caused eighty to ninety percent of the pollution of the Thi Vai River. Vedan discharged waste water to the Thi Vai River for years. Nearly fifteen months after Vedan Vietnam was detected discharging large quantities of untreated liquid [...]

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Two dead, one missing in waterfall accident

November 23, 2009
Two dead, one missing in waterfall accident

Residents in Dong Nai Province look for students swept away by rapids below a the Cay Si waterfall The bodies of two of three students who slipped and were swept away by rapids as they played at a waterfall were found Saturday in Dong Nai Province. Police in Dinh Quan District, not far from Ho [...]

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Meat shortages for Tet?

November 20, 2009
Meat shortages for Tet?

VietNamNet Bridge –  Farmers quitting the industry over high feed costs may mean future meat shortages. On the morning of November 19, after selling a herd of 30 pigs, Tran Quang Trung, a farmer in Dong Nai province, was dazed after he realized he had incurred the loss of six million dong. Nguyen Van Sang, the [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...