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Official: Some 2,000 small Indonesian islands may disappear

At least 2,000 small islands across archipelagic Indonesia may disappear sooner or later as a consequence of excessive mining and other environment-damaging activities, a senior official said on Saturday. At least 2,000 small islands across archipelagic Indonesia may disappear sooner or later as a consequence of excessive mining and other environment-damaging... Read more

Paramilitary official allegedly tortures detainee

Police of Binh Duong Province’s Ben Cat District Tuesday began investigating a paramilitary officer who had allegedly abused a construction worker in detention on November 9. Nineteen-year-old Dinh Quoc Huy, a paramilitary officer in Lai Uyen Commune, is accused of physically assaulting and torching Pham Minh Ly’s hands, hair and beard at the... Read more

DOC announcement reflects the truth: official

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Industry and Trade said the recent announcement by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) regarding clothing imports from Vietnam “reflects the truth”. On Nov. 21, the DOC officially announced that, following a review of the third six-month period of data from the monitoring programme of apparel imports from Vietnam... Read more

Tourism industry faces human resource crunch, says top official

The country faces a shortage of human resources for tourism projects that are proposed or under way, a top industry official has warned. Speaking at a conference on Quality Assurance in Tourism Human Resources Development in Ho Chi Minh City last week, the Vietnam Administration of Tourism (VNAT) vice chairman,... Read more

HCMC transport official suspended over Japanese graft allegations

Huynh Ngoc Si of the Ho Chi Minh City Transport Department has been suspended for allegedly accepting bribes from Japanese businessmen The Ho Chi Minh City Communist Party Unit Wednesday suspended Huynh Ngoc Si, deputy director of the HCMC Department of Transport, who has been named in a Japanese court case as the receiver of... Read more

Official suspended in connection to PCI scandal

VietNamNet Bridge – Director of the HCM City Department of Information and Communications Le Manh Ha told VietNamNet that Huynh Ngoc Si, Director of the East West Avenue and Water Environment Project, had been suspended pending investigation. Huynh Ngoc Si (standing)VietNamNet Bridge – Director of the HCM City Department of Information and Communications... Read more

Official applauds budget decentralisation

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government’s policy of financial decentralisation has successfully encouraged municipal governments to make the best use of their resources, says the Planning and Investment Ministry’s Financial and Monetary Department director Le Quoc Ly. Roads under construction in HCM City. Local governments have taken greater control... Read more

Inflation will not rise this month, official assures

Inflation will not quicken in November thanks to a drop in the global prices of raw materials that Vietnam imports, an official has said.  Hoang Tho Xuan, head of the Department of Domestic Market Policy under Ministry of Industry and Trade, said though food prices have been driven up by recent floods in the northern and north-central regions, it... Read more

Flood will not make November’s CPI increase: official

VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Tho Xuan, Director of the Domestic Market Policies Department under MOET believes that the unexpected commodity price increases during the flood in Hanoi will not have huge impacts on November’s CPI. The Taskforce on Domestic Market Regulation agreed at the working session at the end of October that the prices of strategic... Read more

Food company official held on embezzlement charges

VietNamNet Bridge - Police have arrested a former senior official of the Viet Nam Food Industries Joint Stock Company (Vifon) in HCM City for alleged misapproriation of corporate funds. VIFON head office in Tan Phu District, HCM City (Photo: VNN)Police said that 53-year-old Nguyen Thanh Huyen, former Vifon deputy general director, would be detained for four months... Read more

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