January 18, 2012
After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District. Vuon’s relatives reportedly set mines and shot at police officials and soldiers revoking their farmland under a [...]
Tags: &ndash, 14 Years, 20 Years, agreement, April 2010, Aquaculture Land, Authorities, Brother Doan, Brother Doan Van, By The Court, Chairman, committee, Commune, complaint, Complaint Against The, court, decision, Deputy, District, District Authorities, Doan Van, Doan Van Vuon, Doan Xa, Farmers, First Instance, Hai phong, Hai Phong City, hectares, house, In April 2010, In Hai Phong, In Hai Phong City, In Tien Lang, issued, January, Judge Ngo, Judge Ngo Van, Judge Ngo Van Anh, Kien Thuy, Kien Thuy District, Land Dispute, Land Law, Lang District, Lang People, Ldquo, Ngo Van, Ngo Van Anh, Of Doan Van, Of Doan Van Vuon, Of First Instance, Officials, Officials And Soldiers, people, period, Phong, Phong City, Police, Police Officials, Police Officials And, Police Officials And Soldiers, Rdquo, residents, Revoke, Revoke Their Land, Several, Several Breaches, Soldiers, The Agreement, The Court, The Decision, The district, The District Authorities, The farmers, The house, The Land, The Land Law, The Law, The Period, The Residents, The tien, The Tien Lang, The Tien Lang People, The Time, The Verdict, Their Complaint, Their Complaint Against, Their Complaint Against The, Their Land, Thuy District, Tien Lang, Tien Lang District, Tien Lang People, To Revoke Their, To Revoke Their Land, To The Land, To The Land Law, Van anh, Van Vuon, verdict, Vietnam, Vu Van, Vuon And His, wasteland:, Withdrew, Withdrew Their Complaint, Withdrew Their Complaint Against, Xa Commune, years
Posted in Reports | Comments Off
January 15, 2012
Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]
Tags: &ndash, Also Found, And Motorbike Fires, And Motorbike Fires Over, At Retail Stations, At The Company, Car And Motorbike, Car And Motorbike Fires, Car Fires, cases, company, Diesel Oil, District, drivers, Each Truck, employees, Engineering, Engineering Company, fires, Fires Over, Fires Over The, Fires Over The Past, found, Fuel Quality, Gas Samples, Gasoline, January, Ldquo, liquid, Liquids, Liters, Locations, Locations Vietweek, Low Quality Gas, Low-quality, million, ministry, Motorbike, Motorbike Fires, Motorbike Fires And, Motorbike Fires Over, Motorbike Fires Over The, Of Car And, Of Car And Motorbike, Of Car Fires, On The Street, Over The Past, Over The Past Year, Past Year, Petrolimex, quality, Quality Gas, quick, quickly, Rdquo, Refilling Tanks, Refilling Tanks With, reporters, Reporters Found, retail, Retail Stations, science, Science Ministry, Several, Siphoning, Some Employees, Station, stations, stopped, Tank Truck, tanks, Thanh, The company, The Fuel, The Lost, The past, The Past Year, The Reason, The Reason For, The Science, The Science Ministry, The Seal, The Stolen, The Street, The Tank, The Truck, The Trucks, These Locations, These Locations Vietweek, To Retail Stations, transportation, Transportation Service, Truck, Truck Drivers, Truck Drivers And, Trucks, Trucks Belonging, Two Others, vehicle, Vehicle Fires, Vietweek, Vietweek Reporters, Vietweek Reporters Found, volume
Posted in Reports | Comments Off
January 3, 2012
Leeches have been spreading rapidly in Ho Chi Minh City ’s Hoc Mon District. Locals began breeding them based on demand from China , but dumped them in local fields and other areas after the main buyer closed shop three months ago. Vietnam’s agriculture ministry has issued a ban on the breeding of leeches [...]
Tags: &ndash, animals, Began Breeding, breeding, Chi District, Chi minh, Chi minh city, Children From Playing, Children From Playing Near, China, Chinese, company, Creatures, Cu Chi, Cu Chi District, December, District, Ecosystem, Environment, fields, found, From China But, From Playing Near, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, Hoc Mon, Hoc Mon District, Invasive, Invasive Snails, Kim Anh, large, Large Numbers, Ldquo, Leeches, Local, Local Ecosystem, Locals Began Breeding, Minh city, Mon District, months, Nien Weekly, Other Creatures, people, ponds, population, province, Rdquo, residents, Several, Similar, Snails, Tay ninh, Thanh, Thanh nien, Thanh Nien Weekly, The company, The Creatures, The Invasive, The Leeches, The Leeches Will, The local, The Local Ecosystem, The water, The Worms, Three, Three Months, Vietnam, water, workers, Worms
Posted in Sci-Tech | Comments Off
December 21, 2011
Textbooks and TV commercials in Vietnam reinforce gender stereotypes An image from an advertisement clip for a seasoning powder featuring a woman giving tips to another on cooking. Experts say TV commercials and textbooks are hindrances to achieving gender equality in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government has explicitly stated its intention to reduce gender disparity, [...]
Tags: achieve, Achieve Gender, Achieve Gender Equality, Achieve Gender Equality Rdquo, Advertisements, Commercials, Country, Disparity, Education, Equality, Equality Rdquo, evidence, found, gender, Gender Disparity, Gender Disparity But, Gender Equality, Gender Equality Rdquo, Gender Stereotypes, Gender Stereotypes And, Gender Stereotypes And Bias, Government, image, In The Country, Ldquo, National, National assembly, Nien Weekly, Nien Weekly Ldquo, Of Gender Equality, Of Gender Stereotypes, Of Gender Stereotypes And, percent, Rdquo, Rdquo She Said, Said The Survey, Several, Stereotypes, Stereotypes And Bias, survey, Survey Found, Survey Team, textbooks, Thanh, Thanh nien, Thanh Nien Weekly, Thanh Nien Weekly Ldquo, The country, The Gender, The Plan, The Plan Also, The Role, The Survey, The Survey Found, To Achieve Gender, To Achieve Gender Equality, Told thanh, Told thanh nien, Told Thanh Nien Weekly, Tv Commercials, Vietnam, weekly, Weekly Ldquo, women
Posted in Reports | Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: Admission, Admission Fees, agencies, agency, Authorities, based, Bay Management, Bay Management Said, Bay Management Said They, Brown, December, decision, Decision Was Implemented, director, Do Duc, Do Duc Thang, Do Duc Thang Deputy, Duc Thang, Duc Thang Deputy, Environmental Education, Experiences Rdquo, experts, Floating Villages, foundation, Foundation Short, Foundation Short Listed, Ha Long Bay, Ha Long Bay Management, heritage, Heritage Site, higher, implemented, Improving, Improving Services, increase, inflation, islands, Ldquo, listed, Listed Ha, Long Bay Management, management, Management Said They, Management Said They Had, ministry, nature, New Seven, New Seven Wonders, New7wonders Foundation, New7wonders Foundation Short, New7wonders Foundation Short Listed, Nien Weekly, Ninh People, Ninh province, November, November 12, Of Quang Ninh, Of The Bay, Of The New, Of The New Seven, Of The Site, On The Route, people, percent, price, prices, province, quality, Quang, Quang ninh, Quang Ninh People, Quang Ninh Province, Rdquo, route, Said ldquo, Said The Increase, Said They Had, services, Seven, Seven Wonders, Several, short, Short Listed, sites, Square Kilometers, Switzerland Based, Thang Deputy, Thanh, Thanh nien, Thanh Nien Weekly, The Bay Management, The Decision, The Decision Was, The Decision Was Implemented, The Ha, The Hike, The Increase, The Increase Was, The local, The ministry, The new, The New Seven, The New Seven Wonders, The provincial, The route, The site, The Switzerland, The Switzerland Based, The Unesco, The Votes, To The Site, tourism, Tourism Agencies, Tourism Ministry, Tourism site, tourists, tours, Travel, Travel Agency, Vietnam, visitors, wonders, world, World Heritage, World Heritage Site
Posted in Travel | Comments Off
November 16, 2011
Book-collectors are a rare breed, but young book lovers rarer still Minh Ngoc, an old book trader, stands in her shop of the same name on Vo Van Tan St., HCMC Priest Nguyen Huu Triet is a regular client at the local scrap dealers, always looking for old, rare books that most people would [...]
Tags: All His Books, among, Book Club, Book Collecting, Book Collector, Book Collectors, Book Collectors Are, Book Lovers, books, Bookstore, But Not Many, collecting, Collector, Collectors, Duong Thanh, Duong Thanh Hoai, His Books, Hoang Minh, In The City, Is Not Expensive, Ldquo, Local, Minh Ngoc, Nha Nam, Not Expensive, Old Books, Old Rare, Old Rare Books, people, published, Rare Books, Rdquo, Scrap Dealers, Several, Thanh, Thanh Hoai, The city, The Hobby, The Tale, Triet, Tuan Said That, Van Tan, Vietnam, Vo Van, Vo Van Tan, Who Owns, Year old, years, Young Book, Young people
Posted in Lifestyle | Comments Off
November 14, 2011
A local worker prepares before moving the 1,500 ton Van Linh Pagoda on Cam Mountain in An Giang Province 20 meters backward and simultaneously turning it 90 degrees. They call him a genie, but Do Quoc Khanh waves it off, saying there is no magic to his work. “As soon as all the procedures [...]
Tags: 10 Meters, 20 Meters, 20 Meters Backward, 20 Meters Backward And, 500 Ton, 500 Ton Van, 500 Ton Van Linh, 90 Degrees, accident, Accidents, According, After Working, An Giang Province, Backward, Backward And Simultaneously, Building, Business, Cam Mountain, Cho Moi, Cho Moi District, company, construction, Died Working, District, field, Genie, Genies, Genies Rdquo, Giang, Giang province, Hanoi, Has Worked, He Was Working, house, houses, In Long Dien, In The Area, In The Field, In The South, inexperienced, Inexperienced Structural, Inexperienced Structural Movers, Jacks, Khanh, Ldquo, Ldquo Genies, Ldquo Genies Rdquo, Linh Pagoda, Local, Long Dien, meters, Meters Backward, Meters Backward And, Meters Backward And Simultaneously, Moi District, Moved, Mover, Movers, Moving, Nguyen, Nguyen van, northern, Northern Genie, Not More Than, Of Structural Movers, Of Them Are, On Cam Mountain, Own Business, Pagoda, people, Phu Cat, project, province, Rdquo, River, Rudimentary, Rudimentary Tools, Said ldquo, Several, Structural, Structural Movers, Structural Moves, Structures, successfully, Successfully Moved, Successfully Moved The, Than 10, Thanh, Thanh Luy, Thanh nien, The accident, The area, The building, The city, The Field, The Gate, The Movers, The Northern, The project, The province, The river, The site, The south, The Steel, The vietnam, The Work, The Work Done, Their own, Their Own Business, Their Work, thousands, Ton House, Ton Van, Ton Van Linh, Ton Van Linh Pagoda, Van Linh, Van Linh Pagoda, Vietnam, Worked, workers, Working, Year According, Year old, years
Posted in Reports | Comments Off
November 11, 2011
A man exits the office complex where MF Global Holdings Ltd have an office on 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan New York, October 31, 2011. Long before the brokerage firm MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy and prompted a frantic search for missing customer money, the company had already established a checkered history. An analysis of [...]
Tags: 15 Included, According, account, accounts, actions, Against Mf, agency, alleged, Alleged Lapses, Alleged Violations, among, bankruptcy, Between 2000, Between 2000 And, brokerage, brokers, Business, Business Practices, By The Agency, By The Cftc, Canadian Bank, Case Mf, Cftc Sanctioned, Citigroup, claims, clients, comment, Commodity Futures, company, complaint, Complaint Filed, controls, Cosmo, Credit Suisse, Customer Money, Declined, Drawn, Dubbed Ldquo, Dubbed Ldquo Mini, Dubbed Ldquo Mini Madoff, earlier, Earlier This Year, Enforcement Actions, enforcement:, European Debt, failed, Familiar, federal, Filed, firms, For Alleged Lapses, Former, futures, global, Global Agreed, Global Ldquo, Global Says, Global Says The, Goldman sachs, Has Drawn, hedge, Hedge Fund, His Account, His Investors, His Investors Money, In That Case, In The Top, Included, Internal, Internal Controls, Into Bankruptcy, investors, Investors Money, Its Own, Jp Morgan, Last week, lawsuit, Lawsuit Filed, Lawsuit Says, lawsuits, Lax Oversight, Ldquo, Ldquo Mini, Ldquo Mini Madoff, Ldquo Mini Madoff Rdquo, Long Island, losses, Madoff, Madoff Rdquo, Mf Global, Mf Global Agreed, Mf Global And, Mf Global For, Mf Global Has, Mf Global Ldquo, Mf Global Said, Mf Global Says, Mf Global Says The, Mf Global Was, million, Mini Madoff, Mini Madoff Rdquo, money, Montreal, Morgan, On The List, Other Firms, Oversight, penalties, Person, Person Familiar, Person Familiar With, Ponzi, Ponzi Scheme, Private Lawsuits, Rdquo, Record, Recordkeeping, records, Red Flags, regulators, Risk Supervision, Risk Taking, sanctioned, scheme, Several, supervision, Supervision And Recordkeeping, taking, The Agency, The bank, The Brokerage, The Canadian, The Canadian Bank, The case, The Cftc, The Cftc Sanctioned, The company, The Complaint, The Complaint Filed, The firm, The Lawsuit, The List, The Time, The Top, The Trader, The Trader Who, The Trustee, The Violations, The Wheat, The Wheat Trader, The Wheat Trader Case, This year, Through Mf, To The Agency, To The Complaint, Top 15, trader, Trader Case, trades, trading, Trustee, Us Commodity, Us Commodity Futures, violations, Wheat, Wheat Trader, Wheat Trader Case, With The Cftc, years
Posted in International | Comments Off
November 7, 2011
Retired stage artists are happy to be among their own in the autumn of their lives Then and now: Doan Thien Kim with a photograph taken during her heydays as a cai luong artist in HCMC several decades ago Former cai luong (reformed theater) artist Doan Thien Kim, 77, looks sad whenever she receives [...]
Tags: among, artist, artistic, artists, As The Center, asked, At The Center, Cai Luong, Cai Luong Artist, center, children, Could Not Afford, Current Residents, daughter, difficult, Doan Thien, Doan Thien Kim, Every Full, Every Full Moon, families, Five Children, found, friends, happy, Have Someone, Her Children, In The City, Ldquo, Leading Roles, lives, living, Local, luong, Luong Artist, Me Rdquo, Me Rdquo Said, Me Rdquo Said Kim, million, money, month, Mother, My Old, Needy Artists, Nguyen, Not Afford, Of The Artists, Of Their Lives, Old Artists, Old Friends, Other Artists, people, Per month, perform, Rdquo, Rdquo Lanh, Rdquo Said Kim, Rdquo Said Nguyen, residents, roles, Said Kim, Said ldquo, Said nguyen, Several, Several Years, share, Someone, Son And His, Square Meter, stage, Stage Artists, support, Thanh nien, The art, The Artist, The Artists, The Artists Also, The center, The Chance, The children, The city, The current, The Current Residents, The government, The home, Their Career, Their Families, Their Lives, Their own, They Perform, Thien Kim, To Serve The, years, younger
Posted in Reports | Comments Off
October 9, 2011
Hanoi-based Goethe Institute will host several languge courses and a conference on European Language Days on Oct 14-15, to feature the region’s linguistic diversity.  This event is organized by several European cultural institutes and embassies, including the British Council, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Institute Cervantes and the Representation of Wallonie-Bruxelles as well as [...]
Tags: courses, cultural, diversity, Europe, European, European Language, event, Goethe, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, institute, language, Language Diversity, languages, Linguistic, Linguistic Diversity, Multilingualism, Several, The British, Will Talk About
Posted in Sci-Tech | Comments Off
Risk, lax oversight riddle MF Global’s past
A man exits the office complex where MF Global Holdings Ltd have an office on 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan New York, October 31, 2011. Long before the brokerage firm MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy and prompted a frantic search for missing customer money, the company had already established a checkered history. An analysis of [...]
Tags: 15 Included, According, account, accounts, actions, Against Mf, agency, alleged, Alleged Lapses, Alleged Violations, among, bankruptcy, Between 2000, Between 2000 And, brokerage, brokers, Business, Business Practices, By The Agency, By The Cftc, Canadian Bank, Case Mf, Cftc Sanctioned, Citigroup, claims, clients, comment, Commodity Futures, company, complaint, Complaint Filed, controls, Cosmo, Credit Suisse, Customer Money, Declined, Drawn, Dubbed Ldquo, Dubbed Ldquo Mini, Dubbed Ldquo Mini Madoff, earlier, Earlier This Year, Enforcement Actions, enforcement:, European Debt, failed, Familiar, federal, Filed, firms, For Alleged Lapses, Former, futures, global, Global Agreed, Global Ldquo, Global Says, Global Says The, Goldman sachs, Has Drawn, hedge, Hedge Fund, His Account, His Investors, His Investors Money, In That Case, In The Top, Included, Internal, Internal Controls, Into Bankruptcy, investors, Investors Money, Its Own, Jp Morgan, Last week, lawsuit, Lawsuit Filed, Lawsuit Says, lawsuits, Lax Oversight, Ldquo, Ldquo Mini, Ldquo Mini Madoff, Ldquo Mini Madoff Rdquo, Long Island, losses, Madoff, Madoff Rdquo, Mf Global, Mf Global Agreed, Mf Global And, Mf Global For, Mf Global Has, Mf Global Ldquo, Mf Global Said, Mf Global Says, Mf Global Says The, Mf Global Was, million, Mini Madoff, Mini Madoff Rdquo, money, Montreal, Morgan, On The List, Other Firms, Oversight, penalties, Person, Person Familiar, Person Familiar With, Ponzi, Ponzi Scheme, Private Lawsuits, Rdquo, Record, Recordkeeping, records, Red Flags, regulators, Risk Supervision, Risk Taking, sanctioned, scheme, Several, supervision, Supervision And Recordkeeping, taking, The Agency, The bank, The Brokerage, The Canadian, The Canadian Bank, The case, The Cftc, The Cftc Sanctioned, The company, The Complaint, The Complaint Filed, The firm, The Lawsuit, The List, The Time, The Top, The Trader, The Trader Who, The Trustee, The Violations, The Wheat, The Wheat Trader, The Wheat Trader Case, This year, Through Mf, To The Agency, To The Complaint, Top 15, trader, Trader Case, trades, trading, Trustee, Us Commodity, Us Commodity Futures, violations, Wheat, Wheat Trader, Wheat Trader Case, With The Cftc, years
Posted in International | Comments Off