Posts Tagged ‘ Related Agencies ’

After flames, Hanoi building found to have violated fire safety standards 

December 19, 2011
After flames, Hanoi building found to have violated fire safety standards 

A woman looks up at the 33-floor building where her colleagues were trapped by a fire in Hanoi Thursday. She was among 40 workers rescued by the local fire deparment. The 33-floor Hanoi building that caught fire Thursday, injuring 11, failed to meet fire and safety regulations, an official told Thanh Nien Friday. To Xuan [...]

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Time is right for laws on right to demonstrate 

October 11, 2011
Time is right for laws on right to demonstrate 

  Workers of Taiwanese-owned footwear company Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, on strike last year. A former official from the Ministry of Public Security says the right to strike needs to be protected by laws in Vietnam. The Law on Demonstration is being drafted by the Ministry [...]

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Vietnam metro approves major golf course project at int'l airport 

June 26, 2011
Vietnam metro approves major golf course project at int'l airport 

Work has begun on the construction a golf course complex in the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have approved a project to build a 111-hectare- golf course and an urban area on the premises of the Tan Son Nhat International Airport.   The complex, [...]

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Fishermen vow to defend Vietnamese fishing grounds 

June 4, 2011
Fishermen vow to defend Vietnamese fishing grounds 

  Vietnamese fishing boats anchor around the marine defense platform DK1 in the East Sea. Fishermen all along Vietnam’s central coast say they’re committed to protecting their fishing grounds from rampant encroachments by Chinese boats. Tran Ta has worked as a fisherman in Phu Yen Province for the past ten years. These days, he says [...]

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Agencies pass the buck in Vietnam’s deadly boat accident 

May 27, 2011
Agencies pass the buck in Vietnam’s deadly boat accident 

The boat, which sank in the southern province of Binh Duong last Friday, killing 16, floats on the Saigon River after being recovered Saturday. A meeting was held in the southern province of Binh Duong Wednesday to review a tourist boat accident that killed 16 people last week, but no agency has accepted responsibility.   [...]

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Individual tax payers deserve breaks, too 

May 22, 2011
Individual tax payers deserve breaks, too 

Vendors line the streets outside Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Monday, March 14. The government recently decided to extend the deadline for corporate income tax payments for over 200,000 small and medium-sized enterprises this year. The decision was right and necessary, considering the companies are facing difficulties caused by the rise in prices [...]

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Phu My Hung dispute continues to fester

December 14, 2009
Phu My Hung dispute continues to fester

Over 100 angry people crowded into Phu My Hung Company’s office on November 11, demanding that the investor provide them with documents on real estate projects, but they were prevented by guards. People were prevented by guards from seeing the firm’s officials.  Dispute at HCM City’s model residential areaResidents file official complaint against Phu My Hung Residents [...]

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POLITICS IN BRIEF 29/11

November 30, 2009
POLITICS IN BRIEF 29/11

Trung Luong-My Thuan expressway set to work; PM kicks off pipeline construction; Hanoi to host AIPA workshop on female parliamentarians; FM spokesperson reaffirms sovereignty over East Sea islands Trung Luong-My Thuan expressway set to work Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on November 29 issued an order to kick-start the Trung Luong-My Thuan expressway project in [...]

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PM reports on Govt’s work, questioned on anti-corruption effort

November 20, 2009
PM reports on Govt’s work, questioned on anti-corruption effort

A lively Q&A session developed as the PM replied to queries by deputies on November 19 after he read a 90-minute report on the Government’s work. Initial questions focused on anti-corruption work. PM Nguyen Tan Dung in the Q&A session on November 19. The PM’s report responded, he said, to many of the 254 written questions [...]

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State to improve food safety

September 18, 2009
State to improve food safety

LookAtVietnam – Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Diep Kinh Tan speaks to Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam about measures to tighten food safety supervision. The key problem is to improve domestic product quality and gradually have quarantine stamps on all of the meat products on sale in the market to prove their [...]

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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...