Posts Tagged ‘ service ’

Private airlines hit turbulence even before takeoff 

December 5, 2011
Private airlines hit turbulence even before takeoff 

  Five private airlines have been licensed in Vietnam since 2007, but each of them is struggling to take off, with one having already crash-landed. Air Mekong operates flights while VietJet Air is expected to commence services late this December after many delays. But the others are finding it hard to launch or, in the [...]

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire draws heat from new Nook 

November 21, 2011
Amazon’s Kindle Fire draws heat from new Nook 

  There’s a lot of heel-nipping in the tablet market these days. Amazon.com Inc. just released the Kindle Fire, the most serious attempt yet to take on Apple Inc.’s mighty iPad 2. Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble Inc. has shipped the Nook Tablet, which in turn takes aim at Amazon. I’ve tried both new devices and [...]

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Vietnam to release banking data, report on state companies 

November 16, 2011
Vietnam to release banking data, report on state companies 

  Vietnam set a schedule for data releases such as bad-debt ratios and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered the publication of a report on state-owned companies’ finances, following calls for more transparency. The State Bank of Vietnam will release banking industry data including the loan ratios and return on equity, as well as figures [...]

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Apple’s iOS 5 more catch-up than forge-ahead 

October 23, 2011
Apple’s iOS 5 more catch-up than forge-ahead 

  As impressive as it was for Apple Inc. to sell four million new iPhones last week, millions more users will be affected by another release: iOS 5, the latest version of the operating system that runs every iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. I’ve been testing the software and a lot of its claimed 200 [...]

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Google Maps again falsely depicts Vietnamese territory as China's: scholar 

October 21, 2011
Google Maps again falsely depicts Vietnamese territory as China's: scholar 

A Google map wrongly following China's bogus claims to much of the East Sea, including Vietnamese territory and waters. Google’s web mapping service has again falsely depicted Vietnamese territory as belonging to China. In August 2010, Google Maps fixed errors that depicted parts of Vietnamese land territory as belonging to China, following a request from Vietnamese [...]

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Higher fees double patients’ concerns 

October 11, 2011
Higher fees double patients’ concerns 

  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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Hanoi sets cap on apartment service fees 

October 10, 2011
Hanoi sets cap on apartment service fees 

Service fees at apartment buildings will start at VND2,400 per square meter Hanoi’s municipal administration has put a maximum ceiling price of VND4,000 per square meters on monthly service fees that apartment buildings can collect from residents. Service fees will start at VND2,400 per square meter and cover the maintenance of infrastructure, use of elevators [...]

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Hanoi upscale apartment residents protest service fee hikes 

October 8, 2011
Hanoi upscale apartment residents protest service fee hikes 

  Residents of five upscale apartment buildings in Hanoi have sought the capital city administration’s help in preventing service fees from being hiked unreasonably. According to a report in Monday’s Tuoi Tre newspaper, the residents at 93 Lo Duc Street, The Manor, Golden Westlake, Keangnam, and Sky City have complained that the prices for services [...]

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Vietnamese teenagers join US camp for community service 

August 23, 2011

  Over a hundred teenagers from in and around Hanoi joined a US Embassy camp for communication skills and community service last week, the embassy said in a release on Tuesday. The youth camp, which is part of the English access microscholarship program, was held Friday to Sunday in Ninh Binh Province. The camp provided [...]

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Gossips’ tentacles crawl across the information superhighway 

August 20, 2011
Gossips’ tentacles crawl across the information superhighway 

  A new entertainment website, Octopus Central, shows and tells all about the inner lives of Vietnamese celebrities The website Octopus Central has all the latest on actress Hoang Thuy Linh whose leaked sex tape shot her to fame in 2007. Have you ever wondered what’s up with pop icon Ho Ngoc Ha’s rich playboy [...]

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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...