December 5, 2011
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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November 21, 2011
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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November 16, 2011
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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October 23, 2011
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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October 21, 2011
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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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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October 10, 2011
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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October 8, 2011
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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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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August 20, 2011
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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