January 6, 2012
A total of 95 Vietnamese people were killed and 81 others injured in 117 traffic accidents across the country during the New Year holiday. Figures from the Road and Railway Police Department showed that only one of the accidents occurred on the railway, killing one person, while all others on the roads, news website [...]
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December 30, 2011
Strong small banks should be allowed greater lending growth A local commercial bank’s employee counts money next to piles of dong notes in Hanoi on Monday The application of different credit caps on different banks based on their operational capacity is expected to correct a situation where banks with customers cannot offer loans while [...]
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December 17, 2011
Members of the "Hilltop Youth" fortify an outpost at Shvut Ami in the West Bank in a file photo taken in 2009. The Israeli Defense Forces are increasingly confronting a truth that many Palestinians learned awhile ago: A not-insignificant number of the Israelis who have settled on the West Bank are unhinged zealots who, in [...]
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December 14, 2011
The truck overturning in the north-central province of Nghe An on December 7, killing ten and injuring five others A vice director of a nature reserve in the central province of Nghe An has become the fifth person to be arrested as police investigate the timber truck overturn killing 10 and injuring five others last week. [...]
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December 12, 2011
The long slump has caused a shakeout in the Vietnamese property market. Developers with deep pockets have been coping, others have not been so lucky. It is an inevitable rule in any market, Guy Major, national director of residential sales at Savills Vietnam, tells Thanh Nien Weekly in an exclusive interview, and forecasts a [...]
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November 21, 2011
Emergency rooms in HCMC hospitals are witnessing a massive increase in the number of people wounded in intoxicated brawls Patients being treated at the emergency ward of Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors say there has been an alarming increase in cases of people wounded in fights being admitted to the hospitals. [...]
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November 7, 2011
 File photo shows New York’s Times Square in May 2010. The Internet is humming with bloggers who insist the mystical 11 pops up with alarming regularity in schemes such as 9/11. This coming Friday at 49 minutes before noon, people around the globe will experience a numerically auspicious hour and date unlike any [...]
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October 15, 2011
Inspectors from the Ministry of Public Security have placed 11Â former officials of the state-owned Agribank under investigation for allegedly faking deposits to pocket over VND4.8 billion (US$229,800), a source told Thanh Nien Thursday. Six of the officials from Agribank’s branch in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau have been taken into [...]
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September 23, 2011
Mafia-esque bus transportation system a no-holds-barred race fraught with risk Buses wait to pick up passengers on the road outside the Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi It took 30 minutes for the bus to travel just one kilometer as it inched its way out of the My Dinh Terminal in Hanoi at around [...]
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September 9, 2011
Experts argue that the plan is not feasible and ignores broader initiatives needed to eliminate the gap between haves and have nots A homeless man sleeps on Nguyen Tri Phuong Bridge connecting districts 5 and 8 in Ho Chi Minh City. The municipal authorities are considering a plan to wipe out begging in the [...]
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