January 25, 2012
Consumer demand for holiday goods and transportation will grow 10 percent from last year, according to a government forecast that urged authorities to monitor and stabilize prices. Asia’s fastest inflation is the last thing on Tran Hang’s mind as she jostles fellow shoppers at a street stall in Hanoi’s Old Quarter to snap up [...]
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December 23, 2011
Phung Duc Quoc, a taxi driver, arrested in Hanoi for allegedly hitting an officer on Tuesday. Police in Hanoi on Tuesday arrested a taxi driver for allegedly hitting an officer as he tried to escape when they found him illegally parked. According to Tu Liem District’s police division, Phung Duc Quan, 28, a driver of Son [...]
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November 21, 2011
The transport ministry’s inspectorate on Friday suspended a taxi company whose driver was arrested in early November for overcharging two Singaporean guests of an Interpol meeting in Hanoi, VnExpress reported. Nguyen Xuan Hao, chief inspector from the Ministry of Transport, said in the newswire that the Hanoi-based Phu Gia Co. was found operating “messily” [...]
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November 6, 2011
A Hanoi traffic policeman tries to hang on to a taxi as the taxi driver, who was caught violating traffic regulations, attemps to flee. File photo taken in Hanoi in 2010. Police in Hanoi have arrested two people, including a taxi driver, for allegedly cheating two Japanese out of more than VND8 million (US$380), VnExpress [...]
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November 4, 2011
A file photo shows two traffic policemen write a report of violations committed by a taxi driver (L) in a street of Hanoi. Police in Hanoi are hunting down a taxi driver alleged of overcharging two Singaporeans who were attending the Interpol’s General Assembly meeting in the city, VnExpress reported on November 2. According to [...]
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May 15, 2011
Poor signage has added to the frustration of Ho Chi Minh City’s hellacious traffic conditions A total of 13 signs had been posted in a dense cluster at a section near Sai Gon Bridge that links Binh Thanh District and District 2 in Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Huu Long was really upset when [...]
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January 23, 2011
A new law requiring xe om drivers to wear official name badges remains unknown and confusing A xe om (motorbike taxi) driver waits for passengers outside a shopping mall in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. A new regulation that took effect on January 1 requires all xe om drivers to carry a registered name [...]
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November 3, 2009
A drunken taxi driver lost control and crashed his vehicle into a Ho Chi Minh City home early Sunday, seriously injuring two sleeping people. Driver Vo Hoang Vu had driven the seven-seat Mai Linh taxi onto the sidewalk and hit a tree before the vehicle knocked down around four square meters of wall at the [...]
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July 30, 2009
As the opening of the new school year nears, the thing of chief interest to fathers and mothers who work at state agencies and enterprises is how to find someone who can take their children to and from school. As the opening of the new school year nears, the thing of chief interest to fathers [...]
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May 24, 2009
China’s Health Ministry confirmed Sunday that a two-year-old girl in eastern Fujian Province, who returned from the United States with her family via Hong Kong tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu. Photo taken on May 23, 2009 shows the hospital where the A/H1N1 influenza patient is hospitalized in Fuzhou, capital city of east China’s Fujian Province. [...]
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