December 12, 2011
A panoramic view of Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long Bay. Experts have called for improved services and preservation work as the UNESCO World Heritage Site gains further recognition as a natural wonder. A hike in admission fees for the Ha Long Bay, Vietnam’s foremost tourism site, has drawn a lot of flak, particularly over [...]
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February 6, 2011
Buses lined up on National Way 1A in the central province of Khanh Hoa stuck in a traffic jam lasting almost a whole day Sunday. Heavy traffic jams lasting many hours were reported on the trans-Vietnam National Way 1A Sunday, as people flocked home to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year). Starting at 3a.m., a traffic jam [...]
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February 2, 2010
In a chilling domino effect, the collapse of a house in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City Sunday caused nine others in a row to collapse as well, but no casualties have been reported so far. The incident happed at around 10.15 p.m. when some workers at the construction site of Saigon M&C building [...]
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February 2, 2010
Seven of 45 people with acute diarrhea who were admitted to local hospitals in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang between January 19 and 28, were found to have cholera, a health ministry agency reported on Sunday. All seven cholera patients came from Cambodiaâs Takeo and Kandal provinces to An Giang for treatment, according [...]
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January 31, 2010
Dang Thi Bach Tuyet (Front), a former official at the Dong Nai Province Tax Agency, is examined on Tuesday The trial of six former senior tax officials charged with allowing a Taiwanese-invested fisheries company to evade years of taxes began Tuesday. The defendants include Phan Van Hien and Vu Xuan Hieu, two former deputy heads [...]
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January 21, 2010
Ho Chi Minh City customs on Tuesday said they had confiscated 306 white stones suspected to be diamonds from a Vietnamese man at a local airport. The undeclared stones were found in small plastic bags hidden in the waist band of Luu Chi Hungâs trousers waist when he was going through the customs at Tan [...]
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October 15, 2009
A Ho Chi Minh City bank official stole the identities of hundreds of market vendors to pocket some US$8.5 million in fraudulent loans, police said. More than 400 vendors at the Hoa Binh Market received debt notes from DongA Bank office in District 5 last month, following a credit program the lender began in 2006. [...]
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September 28, 2009
Workers leave Song Than Industrial Park in the southern province of Binh Duong. In the lingering impact of the economic downturn, thousands of female factory workers must accept abysmal pay and conditions or join the ranks of the unemployed. Nguyen Ngoc Linh is too busy working twelve hours a day to think about finding a [...]
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September 20, 2009
Orphanage managers arrested for selling children; Local hero wins two int’l architecture awards; Taxi drivers reject company offer, continue strike; Noodle maker accused of polluting waterways Orphanage managers arrested for selling children The president of an orphanage in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has been arrested for further investigations into allegations the children [...]
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September 13, 2009
Barges wait to load sand dredged from the Hau River in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho. The government has launched investigations into sand exploitation to clamp down on the illegal export of the important building material that Vietnam is quickly running out of. âWe will have to import sand in the future if [...]
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