January 8, 2012
A Transport Ministry’s proposal to impose personal vehicle fees draws mostly negative reaction Traffic congestion on Ho Chi Minh City’s Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Street. A Transport Ministry’s proposal to impose personal vehicle fees has drawn skepticism about its feasibility to reduce traffic congestion in major cities. Experts have expressed doubts over the feasibility [...]
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December 19, 2011
Soy, green, black, and red beans on display at a shop selling home-made bá»t ngÅ© cá»c – a mixture powder of black sesame and four different types of beans – on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City My husband has always been thin. But a few months ago it [...]
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October 11, 2011
Higher hospital fees could prevent the poor from getting treatment and many question if increased fees will improve services Patients wait to pay hospital fees at Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Trai Hospital. The Health Ministry is evaluating increasing hospital fees as they said current fees are too low to maintain services. Holding a [...]
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July 22, 2011
Five members of the dinner group (from the left) have their dinner ready to be delivered to poor people. For five years now, hundreds of poor people living in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City have enjoyed the luxury of not being too concerned if their earning for the day is sufficient to have [...]
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March 23, 2011
A woman sells vegetables along the street in the Old Quarter of Hanoi At a street-side market in Hanoi’s Dinh Cong Street, Nguyen Thi Ha does not tarry long at the meat stalls as she shops with her small daughter. She buys more vegetables and tofu, and very little meat and fish. Ha’s new diet [...]
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January 10, 2011
Vu Quoc Tuan at the 8th national patriot festival in Hanoi. Vu Quoc Tuan has not had an easy life himself, but is firmly in the business of saving lives -Â and expects no reward in return. His incredible humanity has seen him donate a kidney to a poor girl for free, refusing an offer [...]
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January 2, 2011
Lawmaker paid no heed to advice that he tones down vociferous objection to projects and actions that he felt were not in the nation’s best interests Ethnic children in Sa Pa Town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. Outspoken and outgoing parliamentarian Nguyen Minh Thuyet is concerned that ethnic minorities are being [...]
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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 21, 2010
Vietnam seeks WIPO assistance; French Ambassador honoured for educational contributions; Dominican party names office after Ho Chi Minh; Vietnam, Algeria promote friendship, cooperation Vietnam seeks WIPO assistance Vietnam hopes to receive more assistance from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), especially to finalise its legal system on intellectual property (IP) and train IP officials.State President [...]
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January 19, 2010
Vietnamese people stuck in the poverty trap are asking to continue to be on the “poor list” rather than be reclassified and miss out on assistance. Most poor people are living in the rural and mountainous Phu Yen province official, Vu Thanh Binh, deputy director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, [...]
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