Posts Tagged ‘ Plots ’

Prime Minister pushes city officials on beltway report 

April 1, 2011
Prime Minister pushes city officials on beltway report 

Construction on the Tan Son Nhat – Binh Loi – Outer Ring Road project in Ho Chi Minh City. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called for strict punishment of any misconduct relating to the roadway’s construction. The central government has ordered officials in Ho Chi Minh City to quickly resolve the irregularities discovered during [...]

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Vietnam’s dead rest in peace, grave speculators make a buck

January 21, 2010
Vietnam’s dead rest in peace, grave speculators make a buck

A view of the Binh Duong Park Cemetery Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are building better cemeteries but real speculators have swooped in on the valuable real estate and spiked prices. Opened in 2006 in the southern province of Long An, Go Den Cemetery covers 75 hectares and is lush with trees. The site [...]

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Relocated residents forced into poverty

January 10, 2010
Relocated residents forced into poverty

A broken section at An Suong Apartment complex in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 12. Families displaced by infrastructure projects find themselves barely scraping by in crumbling tenements. Every morning, Le Van Thanh’s tap spews out a black, coffee-like liquid, which he then filters and boils to use for cooking throughout the day.He says that’s [...]

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Public land neglected, used for profit

July 25, 2009
Public land neglected, used for profit

A famer cuts grass for cow feed at an unused land plot managed by the state-run Sinco Machinery Company under the Saigon Industry Corporation. State-owned companies in Ho Chi Minh City have been using public land for profit and neglecting other valuable real estate for years, officials from the municipal People’s Council have said. The [...]

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HCMC to get tough in revoking unused public land

July 15, 2009
HCMC to get tough in revoking unused public land

The building of Vietnam Post in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 that has been leased out to a stock company. Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday promised to take immediate and strict measures against the waste and misuse of land owned by state-owned companies, especially those that have been unused or leased out illegally. [...]

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Officials enjoy rewards of land swiped from farmers

June 10, 2009
Officials enjoy rewards of land swiped from farmers

Farmer Hai Tiem (R) of Long An Province shows the list of people granted plots in Thu Thua District last Friday. Mekong Delta officials were illegally granted land slated for farmers and then enjoyed large compensation sums for being “relocated.” In 1993, the Thu Thua District People’s Committee in Long An Province was supposed to [...]

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Thu Thiem residents face compensation dilemma

March 30, 2009
Thu Thiem residents face compensation dilemma

Land in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 that has been cleared for the new Thu Thiem development. Dinh Van Lam from Binh Khanh Ward in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 has been pledged relocation compensation of VND700 million (US$39,500) as he has to move to make way for the new Thu Thiem urban [...]

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Hanoi: Wasted “diamond, gold” land

March 26, 2009
Hanoi: Wasted “diamond, gold” land

Is Hanoi out of land in nice positions for businesses, “diamond or gold” land, like some local officials have affirmed? It has been affirmed elsewhere that there is still a lot of gold land even in the city’s hub. HUD has cooperated with Binh Minh Gara to exploit the gold land for five years. Many plots [...]

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Undertakers steal land, extort the bereaved

March 20, 2009
Undertakers steal land, extort the bereaved

Unoccupied burial plots at a cemetery in Lam Dong Province’s town of Da Lat. The gorgeous and serene mountain town of Da Lat, one of Vietnam’s premier holiday spots, is anything but pleasant if you’re looking to lay your loved ones to rest. One Da Lat cemetery worker told Thanh Nien he illegally sells burial [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...