June 27, 2011
Bui Tien Dung, former director of the Ministry of Transport’s Project Management Unit 18 (PMU18), is to stand trial in Hanoi for embezzlement. A former senior transport official currently serving jail terms totaling 16 years for gambling and others crimes will stand trial Monday in Hanoi on embezzlement charges related to a Japanese-funded bridge project. [...]
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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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January 9, 2010
Vietnamâs baby formula market was worth VND8 trillion ($421.1 million) in 2008 Many dairy companies have hiked up the prices of infant formula in the new year citing the weaker dong and higher wages, but the government said their huge marketing costs are, in fact, inflating prices. Mead Johnson, Abbott, and Dutch Lady prices are [...]
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January 8, 2010
A vehicle owned by the Ministry of Health crashed into a motorbike in Hanoi Wednesday night, injuring two people on the bike. The injured, whose names were not released, were rushed to the hospital after they were rear-ended on Giang Vo Street, in front of the ministryâs headquarters.âThe car drove very fast from a beer [...]
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December 18, 2009
Within 12 years, a coal mining company in Quang Ninh province has filled a valley and nearly buried a whole stream. Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Quoc Trung from the Environmental Agency of the Ministry of Public Security told Dan Tri online newspaper that police have collected enough evidence to accuse the PT.VIETMINDO ENERGITAMA (PTVE), a Vietnamese-Indonesian [...]
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December 18, 2009
Almost 100,000 people categorised as the nation’s poorest have escaped from poverty over the past year thanks to the Government’s efforts to combat poverty . . . People in the disadvantaged commune of Na Meo, Quan Son District, Thanh Hoa Province renovate their houses. Almost 100,000 people categorised as the poorest in the nation have [...]
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December 17, 2009
The Viet Nam National Petroleum Corporation (Petrolimex) yesterday, December 15, became the country’s first petroleum distributor to decrease pump prices . . . A driver fuels up at a Petrolimex petrol station in Ha Noi. (Photo: VNN)As of 3.30pm yesterday, the corporation offered A92 petrol at VND15,950 per litre, VND350 lower than its earlier price. [...]
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December 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Avian flu cases (A/H5N1) have been reported in the provinces of Thai Nguyen and Ca Mau, where hundreds of chickens have died. The southern province of Ca Mau and Thai Nguyen Province in the north have set up quarantine stations in order to strictly check the transporting and slaughtering of chickens.Hoang Van Nam, [...]
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October 27, 2009
A farmer in Dong Nai Province search for fish as untreated wastewater discharge by Vedan has killed their fish source in the Thi Vai River Public outrage has prompted organizers to deny awards granted to major river polluter Vedan with the corollary that if they did, it was a mistake. The company, meanwhile, insists it [...]
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October 7, 2009
After a contestant in the Mrs. Vietnam 2008 beauty pageant raised questions about irregularities, local government sponsors of the event asked the police to investigate and punish complainers. Contestant Doan Thi Phuong. With a letter titled “Asking for Answers,” Mrs. Vietnam 2009 contestant Doan Thi Phuong raised five questions to competent agencies, including the Ministry of [...]
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