January 14, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia. The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, suggested the movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made while Thatcher was alive. Her former [...]
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December 22, 2011
Pho Vi Nhat, a former employee of China Airlines in Ho Chi Minh City, was arrested along with two current staff for allegedly stealing US$5.9 million from the airline Two employees of China Airlines’s representative office in Ho Chi Minh City and their former colleague have been arrested for allegedly stealing nearly US$6 million from [...]
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November 19, 2011
Workers in Ho Chi Minh City struggle with unstable jobs, abuse at work, and bosses who flee to avoid paying employees Workers from Miso Vina Company stay at the company yard around the clock awaiting payment after the South Korean director fled to avoid paying their salaries Binh burns leaves and sticks at night [...]
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September 3, 2011
Company sends goons to beat up protesters Nguyen Van Tuan was attacked by truck drivers on August 29 after he and others at Da Nang City’s Hoa Lien Commune blocked vehicles from entering a construction site. A survey by Nielsen found environmental concerns in Vietnam has shifted from climate change to environmental pollution. The [...]
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May 9, 2011
Binh Duong police searched the residence-cum-office of Pham Tuan Thanh, the main suspect in the murder of a businessman last Friday. Police in the southern province of Binh Duong near Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday arrested six suspects in the fatal shooting of a company director last Friday evening. They did not reveal the detained suspects’ [...]
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May 1, 2011
This 2007 file image originally provided by NBC Universal shows a scene from NBC’s ‘The Office,’ showing Steve Carell, center, as Michael Scott. The self-anointed “world’s best boss” has clocked out of “The Office” for the last time. Michael Scott, the poster boy for inept middle managers everywhere, bade a sneaky farewell to his underlings [...]
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April 16, 2011
Nguyen Quang, a Vietnamese-Swedish entrepreneur, with the Male Shooting Star certificate awarded by international auditing firm Ernst and Young in Sweden in November last year In early February this year, a leading Swedish daily, Göteborgs-Posten, used up a huge portion of its cover page for a photograph of Nguyen Quang, a Vietnamese-Swedish businessman. Inside were [...]
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January 29, 2010
LookAtVietnam – In the latest in our “Discover our Vietnamese Congressmen” series, VietNamNet talked with congress deputy Duong Trung Quoc, who is also a historian. Insider view of National Assembly Duong Trung Quoc was born on June 2 1947 in Ben Tre province. He graduated from the History Faculty of the Hanoi University in 1968. He worked [...]
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January 28, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Passengers flocked to the offices of Indochina Airlines to reclaim ticket fees after they heard the airline has had its license revoked. Tri did hand out a list of passenger names saying that those whose names were includes should come to No 5 Dong Da Road on January 29, 2010 to settle the problem.At [...]
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January 21, 2010
Vietnam seeks WIPO assistance; French Ambassador honoured for educational contributions; Dominican party names office after Ho Chi Minh; Vietnam, Algeria promote friendship, cooperation Vietnam seeks WIPO assistance Vietnam hopes to receive more assistance from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), especially to finalise its legal system on intellectual property (IP) and train IP officials.State President [...]
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