December 30, 2011
Garment workers are among those receiving low Tet, New Year bonuses this year Vietnam’s highest Tet and calendar New Year bonus for an individual this year as of December 27 was paid by a foreign-invested firm in Ho Chi Minh City at more than US$52,300. The company, which is not named, paid the country’s largest [...]
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November 19, 2011
Workers in Ho Chi Minh City struggle with unstable jobs, abuse at work, and bosses who flee to avoid paying employees Workers from Miso Vina Company stay at the company yard around the clock awaiting payment after the South Korean director fled to avoid paying their salaries Binh burns leaves and sticks at night [...]
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April 24, 2011
A plan to cut the 5 percent tax rate on dividends will boost investor sentiment amid volatile stock market conditions, experts say. In a meeting with business representatives in Ho Chi Minh City early this month, Deputy Finance Minister Do Hoang Anh Tuan announced that the ministry would propose to the National Assembly a [...]
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January 24, 2010
Health insurance holders at An Binh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 5 on Thursday. Policyholders no longer enjoy full payment and pay up to 20 percent instead. Tran Van Hoang says he might not be able to pay his bills at An Binh Hospital after being admitted last Thursday for urolithiasis and asthma.Although [...]
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January 9, 2010
Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance said on Wednesday it had asked local authoritiesâ permission to pay out unemployment allowances via ATM only. According to the state-run insurerâs director Cao Van Sang, the firm didnât have sufficient facilities to pay unemployed people directly, adding that the proposal had been sent to HCMC Peopleâs Committee and [...]
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December 1, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Many enterprises and companies in HCM City were still not clear about their health and unemployment insurance obligations. Their confusion concerned both the amount of unemployment insurance as well as procedures for collecting and paying it, they said.Several business representatives said they were following the regulations, but were told by local labour officials [...]
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June 9, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Income payers still do not know if they have to deduct money from salaries to pay personal income tax (PIT) because they have not got any guidance from tax agencies. The finance ministry has submitted to the National Assembly a plan on tax exemption until the end of June 2009 This situation [...]
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May 2, 2009
The interest rate being paid on VND deposits at commercial banks just went up, while the interest rate being charged for short-term VND loans at these same banks is unchanged at 8.0-10.5 percent per annum. Before April 4, commercial banks competed against each other by offering ’lower’ interest rates on loans. No more. Prime Ministerial [...]
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April 10, 2009
Speaking to the press this morning on the occasion of Japan releasing the ODA White Book (2007 data), Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Sakaba Mitsuo said that Vietnam had begun paying off its ODA debts to Japan – to the tune of nearly $125 million in 2007. LookAtVietnam – Speaking to the press this morning on [...]
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February 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The deadline for businesses to pay import duties has been delayed on certain raw materials used in the production of goods for export. In certain cases, including the import of raw materials used in shipbuilding, production of machinery, cattle-breeding, seafood processing, and food processing, which have a production cycle and raw material reserve [...]
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