January 25, 2012
Property projects under construction seen from a high-rise building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Many companies in Vietnam were dealt a harsh blow by the real estate market slump last year. Singapore property developer Keppel Land, though not completely untouched, has weathered the downturn well. Linson Lim, President of Keppel Land Vietnam, is [...]
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January 25, 2012
Property projects under construction seen from a high-rise building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Many companies in Vietnam were dealt a harsh blow by the real estate market slump last year. Singapore property developer Keppel Land, though not completely untouched, has weathered the downturn well. Linson Lim, President of Keppel Land Vietnam, is [...]
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January 11, 2012
 A man works at a steel factory in Que Vo District, outside Hanoi . Many companies in Vietnam are facing higher operation costs and lower profits. An annual report that ranks Vietnam’s 500 largest companies based on revenues, profit, growth rate, assets, and number of employees shows that returns are declining for private companies. [...]
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January 9, 2012
Police deactivate mines set up at the entrance to the house of Doan Van Vuon in the northern city of Hai Phong. Six cops were shot in an encounter with Vuon's family on January 5. A man who allegedly shot six officers when his family was trying to stop police from revoking their land in [...]
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December 20, 2011
Thanh Nien helps rescue a Vietnamese victim of domestic abuse in Taiwan  A wedding photo of 29-year-old Phan Thi Kim Thanh and her Taiwanese husband Chung Yung Hua. Thanh was rescued from her husband’s house in Taiwan’s Changhua County on December 13, where she was allegedly being battered and kept under home arrest [...]
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August 27, 2011
Vietnamese fishermen at a prison in Palawan Province, the Philippines Over 100 Vietnamese fishermen allegedly victimized by a predatory fishing contract are longing for home as their trial for illegally fishing in the Philippines begins in Palawan Province. “We want to return to our hometowns as soon as possible,” Tran Van Thai, 42, told Tuoi [...]
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July 2, 2011
Slick, illegal brokering machine ensures steady supply of poor young Vietnamese brides for South Korean men, a Thanh Nien investigation finds T., a 19-year-old woman from Kien Giang Province, at her wedding ceremony last month with a South Korean man One day in early June, Phuong gets a call informing her that two men [...]
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May 22, 2011
Le Minh Khuong is the coach of the national taekwondo team. Vietnam’s national taekwondo team coach Le Minh Khuong says he will protest a decision by the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) to fine him for disrupting a Vietnam Airlines flight last month. Le Minh Khuong, 50, refused to sign the finding of CAAV’s [...]
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April 26, 2011
A local radio reporter in Nghe An attempted to expose safety problems at the Nghe An quarry, last November, only to be ignored by newspapers and government officials Rescuers search for the bodies of quarry employees buried in a rockslide at the Len Co Mountain stone quarry in the central province of Nghe An [...]
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February 28, 2011
Relatives of missing fishermen from Quang Ngai Province’s Ly Son District weep for their missing husbands and fathers. Quang Ngai officials are seeking assistance from the central government as they continue to hunt for the crew of a fishing boat that went missing on January 23. Truong Ngoc Nhi, vice chairman of the provincial People’s [...]
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