January 12, 2012
The house belonging to Dinh Van Muoi, deputy chief of Soc Trang Town Party Unit’s Inspection Committee, who was arrested Wednesday for alleged gambling. Police in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on Wednesday arrested a Party official for allegedly gambling away billions of dong on Chinese chess games after the official was fingered [...]
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January 6, 2012
An unnamed official in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang is suspected of gambling away billions of dong on Chinese chess games after being fingered by a former official who is in custody for alleged gambling. The provincial police said Wednesday that the arrested official, Nguyen Thanh Leo, former deputy chief of the provincial [...]
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December 19, 2011
A woman looks up at the 33-floor building where her colleagues were trapped by a fire in Hanoi Thursday. She was among 40 workers rescued by the local fire deparment. The 33-floor Hanoi building that caught fire Thursday, injuring 11, failed to meet fire and safety regulations, an official told Thanh Nien Friday. To Xuan [...]
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December 14, 2011
Electricity of Vietnam's debt-to-equity ratio is not safe, according to the Ministry of Investment and Planning. Electricity of Vietnam has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.25, much higher than the average 1.98Â for the country’s state-owned enterprises, news web site VnExpress reported Saturday, citing the Ministry of Investment and Planning. The report said that the high ratio [...]
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December 9, 2011
A bike on fire after an explosion on December 1 that killed a woman and injured a child in the northern province of Bac Ninh. No traces of explosives were found in the motorbike explosion that killed a pregnant woman and critically injured her daughter in northern Vietnam last week, a news website quoted a local official [...]
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December 5, 2011
Five private airlines have been licensed in Vietnam since 2007, but each of them is struggling to take off, with one having already crash-landed. Air Mekong operates flights while VietJet Air is expected to commence services late this December after many delays. But the others are finding it hard to launch or, in the [...]
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December 5, 2011
Ha Long Bay, recently listed as one of the new seven wonders of the world, should have higher admission fees commensurate with its prestige, Tuoi Tre quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Do Duc Thang, deputy chief of the bay’s management board, made the statement two days after the Quang Ninh People’s Committee began charging nearly twice as much [...]
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November 11, 2011
In 1989, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published her famous essay, “The Journalist and the Murderer,” with its notoriously overheated opening sentence: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” This was back in the era [...]
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November 4, 2011
Vietnam's deputy defense minister Nguyen Chi Vinh It is a basic principle of Vietnamese policy to not let its relationship with any country affect the interests of a third country, deputy defense minister Nguyen Chi Vinh said in an interview published in the Tuoi Tre newspaper Friday. Vinh made the statement in response to a question [...]
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November 1, 2011
State oil and gas group Petrovietnam has bid for $1.5 billion of ConocoPhillips oil assets in the East Sea, a senior Petrovietnam official said on Monday. The Hanoi-based group plans to do its utmost to acquire the assets, Nguyen Tien Dung, Petrovietnam’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer, told Reuters on Monday. “The investment is in [...]
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