January 11, 2012
An upswing in mergers and acquisitions in the banking system will occur this year, bringing the number of banks in Vietnam to below 30, the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper has reported, citing experts. Economist Nguyen Tri Hieu said there will be a strong M&A wave in the sector as many lenders are looking for [...]
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January 8, 2012
Tran Thi Thanh Truc (R), 19, was crowned the winner of the fifth Vietnam Jewelry Queen The Vietnam Jewelry Queen contest has been rocked by scandal again after one of its contestants said they were forced to serve wine to unknown men. Tran Thi Hoa said that before the final round on December 30, the [...]
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December 31, 2011
A motorbike on fire in Hanoi on October 12 Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Tran Van Vinh, deputy chief of the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, as saying [...]
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December 6, 2011
Tran Thuy Lieu (L), the wife of reporter Le Hoang Hung, and her daughter, at his funeral. The newspaper Hung used to work for said it suspects Hung’s wife is not the only culprit in his death. A Vietnamese newspaper has asked the nation’s supreme court, prosecutors and police to launch fresh investigations into the murder [...]
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November 11, 2011
More agreements between related parities are needed to prevent conflicts in the East Sea, experts said at an international conference recently organized in Hanoi. According to a report published in Saigon Tiep Thi early this week, at the third international conference on the East Sea, Professor Leszek Buszynski from Australian National University said ASEAN [...]
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September 25, 2011
Vietnam ranks third on the list of top ten destinations for the increasing number of Australians travelling abroad following an increase in value of the Australian dollar against the local currency, The Daily Examiner has reported. The Australian daily newspaper last week quoted the list of top ten best-value destinations revealed by online travel company Expedia. [...]
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September 22, 2011
Vietnamese fishermen at a detention center in Palawan Province in the Philippines in August. The Filipino authorities have ordered 122 Vietnamese fishermen who were acquitted of territorial waters violation charges last month to pay a total of 6.1 million peso (US$140,975) in fines, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Saturday. However, the Vietnamese embassy in Manila on Friday [...]
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September 18, 2011
Deputy health minister Cao Minh Quang Vietnam’s deputy health minister Wednesday denied accusations that he abused power to force a pharmaceutical company to lend him VND1 billion (US$48,000). Cao Minh Quang, deputy minister of the Ministry of Health, made the denial in an interview with the Tuoi Tre newspaper after several news sources reported that [...]
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September 3, 2011
The barge from which a woman fell into the river and drowned on August 20. Agencies in the southern province of Long An have concluded the death of a woman who drowned at a party attended by two top officials of the local prosecutors’ office was an accident, the Tuoi Tre reported Friday. The newspaper [...]
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July 17, 2011
Afredo Siojo Lim (L), the Mayor of Manila, meets with members of a Ho Chi Minh City delegation in the capital city of the Philippines. Vietnam and the Philippines need to cooperate more closely in applying international laws to solve East Sea conflicts, Manila mayor Afredo Siojo Lim said in a meeting with Ho Chi [...]
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