October 8, 2011
A man sells petrol at a station outside Hanoi on September 22. The Finance Ministry has sent out inspection teams to look into oil product prices of Petrolimex, PV Oil and two other distributors. The losses or profits fuel importers make are not clearly accounted for and people are unhappy about this. If the accounting [...]
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September 27, 2011
Lam Nguyen Minh Tam at a trial in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday. Tam received a seven-year jail term for hacking into the bank's computer system and stealing over VND500 million. A court in Ho Chi Minh City Friday sentenced a 28-year-old man to seven years in jail for hacking into the bank’s computer [...]
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July 30, 2011
Farmers harvest dragon fruit for export in the central province of Binh Thuan. The US decided to import more varieties of Vietnamese fruit, creating further opportunities for the nation’s fruit industry. The market often pays high prices for imported fruit, but maintains strict quality standards. At the moment, it requires imported fruit to meet VietGap [...]
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July 12, 2011
President Nguyen Minh Triet (R) visits the Peace Village, a humanitarian center that takes care of children victims of Agent Orange. Children afflicted by Agent Orange need to receive the best supports in education and in achieving family happiness, Vietnam’s President Nguyen Minh Triet said during a visit to a humanitarian center in Ho Chi Minh [...]
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July 12, 2011
US President Barack Obama chats with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet at the 18th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Japan in 2010. US President Barack Obama has expressed his intention to visit Vietnam in the near future, the president told Vietnamese ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong who just extended his tenure there. Â Cuong met President [...]
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April 21, 2011
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet (R) and Slovak Minister of Economy and Construction Juraj Miskov Vietnam welcomes Slovakian businesses to seek investment opportunities as the two countries have great potential to expand their cooperation, President Nguyen Minh Triet said Thursday. He made the statement while receiving Slovak Minister of Economy and Construction Juraj Miskov in Hanoi, the Vietnam [...]
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April 7, 2011
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet (R) and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych signed a joint declaration on Sunday, pledging to strengthen ties between the two countries. The declaration came following President Yanukovych’s three day visit to Vietnam, according to a report posted on the government [...]
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April 4, 2011
Lawmakers’ rejection of a bill that would give special rights and privileges to Hanoi in the final session of its 2007-2011 term was a rare move, demonstrating a more active role taken by the legislature, experts say. Lawmakers’ rejection of a bill that would give special rights and privileges to Hanoi in the final session [...]
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January 15, 2011
An economist argues that Vietnam needs to start taxing the rich and easing off the poor A cyclo driver reads a newspaper outside an electronics store in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Dr. Nguyen Minh Phong of the Hanoi Socioeconomic Research Institute says that taxes should be adjusted to meet the current economic reality. [...]
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January 2, 2011
Lawmaker paid no heed to advice that he tones down vociferous objection to projects and actions that he felt were not in the nation’s best interests Ethnic children in Sa Pa Town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. Outspoken and outgoing parliamentarian Nguyen Minh Thuyet is concerned that ethnic minorities are being [...]
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