Posts Tagged ‘ The Constitution ’

Time is right for laws on right to demonstrate 

October 11, 2011
Time is right for laws on right to demonstrate 

  Workers of Taiwanese-owned footwear company Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, on strike last year. A former official from the Ministry of Public Security says the right to strike needs to be protected by laws in Vietnam. The Law on Demonstration is being drafted by the Ministry [...]

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Scrap unconstitutional ID law: experts 

April 9, 2011
Scrap unconstitutional ID law: experts 

People with Down Syndrome at a cooking class in Ho Chi Minh City Identification documents (IDs) are a fundamental right of all citizens and any law that denies it to any citizen is unconstitutional and should be amended, legal experts say. They say that a government decree with confusing regulations on issuing IDs for young [...]

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Home ownership: for life or forever? 

February 25, 2011
Home ownership: for life or forever? 

A worker sweeps a street near an apartment building in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2. A proposal by the Ministry of Construction to limit apartment ownership to fixed terms has divided officials and experts. Some say term ownership will help bring down home prices in Vietnam and help spur housing upgrades and the building [...]

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Limits on players with Vietnamese citizenship deemed illegal

December 26, 2009
Limits on players with Vietnamese citizenship deemed illegal

The Ministry of Justice has said that the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF)’s Resolution issued last month to limit the number of Vietnamese players of foreign origin on the pitch during a match is unconstitutional. At a meeting in Hanoi on November 13, the federation had said clubs were sometimes using too many expat players in [...]

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Elderly and resources tax debated

October 22, 2009
Elderly and resources tax debated

LookAtVietnam – National Assembly deputies on October 21, discussed the draft laws on natural resources tax and elderly people. Elderly people in Phong Tho district in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau receive health treatment. Law on the elderly is under discussion by the Assembly.Deputy Nguyen Dinh Quyen from Ha Noi said the law [...]

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‘Entrust heavy responsibilities to innovators,’ former NA Chairman urges

August 20, 2009
‘Entrust heavy responsibilities to innovators,’ former NA Chairman urges

VietNamNet reporters talked with former Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An about ways of identifying and using ‘people of talent.’  VietNamNet: We Vietnamese have achieved a great deal in the past two decades thanks to the Doi Moi (renovation) philosophy and our transformation from the subsidy and rationing system to a market-based economic [...]

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Ministries at odds on allowing higher traffic fines in big cities

August 20, 2009
Ministries at odds on allowing higher traffic fines in big cities

A traffic police officer guides drivers through a traffic jam during Hanoi’s rush hour. The Ministry of Transport wants to make traffic fines in the country’s two largest cities higher than the rest of the country, but the Ministry of Justice said the proposal would violate the constitution. The Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City [...]

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Protests erupt, shots fired after Honduras coup

June 29, 2009
Protests erupt, shots fired after Honduras coup

Honduras’ President Manuel Zelaya speaks on national television at the Presidential house in Tegucigalpa June 27, 2009. Shots were fired near the presidential palace in Honduras where protests erupted after the army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War. Hundreds of pro-Zelaya protesters, [...]

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Thai PM rules out negotiations with Thaksin

April 21, 2009
Thai PM rules out negotiations with Thaksin

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Monday that he won’t negotiate with the convicted former prime minister Thaksin shinawatra in a bid to end the political unrest in Thailand, Thai media said. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva speaks during a news conference at the interior ministry in Bangkok April 12, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)“The government [...]

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Fiji president abrogates 1997 Constitution, resumes governing power

April 10, 2009
Fiji president abrogates 1997 Constitution, resumes governing power

Fiji is now being ruled under a New Legal Order after the abrogation of the country’s 1997 Constitution on Friday by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, who appointed himself head of state. Fiji’s president Ratu Josefa Iloilo is seen in this July 18, 2000 file photo. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)To effect the abrogation, Iloilo decreed the abrogation of [...]

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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...