January 17, 2012
A US professor and an honored advocate for increased healthcare services for Vietnam’s rural communities died from a stroke Friday at 74. Before she died, Judith Ladinsky expressed her wish that her ashes be spread in Vietnam, the country she supported unceasingly since 1980. As a professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University [...]
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December 20, 2011
Vietnam Airlines said its new direct services linking Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City with London will take it one step closer to becoming a major regional carrier. “The launch of the direct flights will allow Vietnam Airlines to improve its services for Europe, meet the travel demand of passengers, and help boost investment, [...]
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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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December 9, 2011
There are many factors responsible for this, but the key reasons are: poor infrastructure, poor tourism promotion; and weak cooperation between travel agents and service providers. These combine to make tour prices in Vietnam less competitive than those in other countries, Nguyen Cong Hoan, vice director of travel agent Hanoi Redtour, told Thanh Nien [...]
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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 14, 2011
Up to 1,000 women die every day as a result of pregnancy-related complications globally, and 5,500 newborns die in the first week of life because of a lack of adequate medical care A midwife examines a pregnant woman in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan. The United Nations has called on Vietnam to invest [...]
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October 30, 2011
A bus worker collects fares on a bus in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese officials should start by gaining people’s trust in the quality of public transport services as the first step toward solving Vietnam’s traffic problems. The public was outraged by news reports last week that a bus driver and his assistant attacked a [...]
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October 28, 2011
The Communist Party unit in a Mekong Delta city has issued a warning to a senior tax official for violating the party’s ethics code at a local massage parlor, newswire VnExpress reported. The Party committe of Ca Mau City also proposed that the city’s Tax Office sack its deputy director, Pham Minh Quang. According to [...]
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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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August 28, 2011
Ground services officers loading luggage at Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Authorities at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport announced Thursday they had arrested a ground services officer for stealing money from a passenger’s suitcase, Sai Gon Tiep Thi newspaper reported. Dao Van Cuong of Tan Son Nhat International Airport Ground Handling [...]
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