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PM asks that national football matches be aired live nationwide 

January 16, 2012
PM asks that national football matches be aired live nationwide 

  Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked on Thursday that the telecast copyright issues be resolved so that all national football matches could be broadcast live nationwide. An urgent document by the Prime Minister said, “The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism should give directives to concerned agencies to solve obstacles to ensure that [...]

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Another golf course to be built on Hanoi airport 

July 4, 2011
Another golf course to be built on Hanoi airport 

Gia Lam Airport in Long Bien District, Hanoi, where a golf course will be built A 117-hectare golf complex is being built on the site of a Hanoi, Tuoi Tre reported Thursday.   The project covers 75 hectares of land within the Gia Lam Airport in the Long Bien District, some eight kilometers from the capital. It was funded by the Long Bien Investment [...]

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Vietnam metro approves major golf course project at int'l airport 

June 26, 2011
Vietnam metro approves major golf course project at int'l airport 

Work has begun on the construction a golf course complex in the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have approved a project to build a 111-hectare- golf course and an urban area on the premises of the Tan Son Nhat International Airport.   The complex, [...]

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Vinashin inspection report released 

June 11, 2011
Vinashin inspection report released 

  Sixteen former Vinashin officials and three government ministries implicated in the company’s financial debacle A ship assembled by the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin)’s Ha Long Ship Building Company in the northern Quang Ninh Province. Three government ministries and 16 former Vinashin officials have been implicated by a team of government inspectors in the [...]

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Icelanders again reject Icesave debt deal 

April 10, 2011
Icelanders again reject Icesave debt deal 

Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir (L) casts her vote in the Icesave referendum in Reykjavik April 9, 2011. Icelanders rejected for a second time a plan to repay $5 billion to Britain and the Netherlands from a bank crash, results showed on Sunday, and the prime minister said economic and political chaos could follow. Policymakers [...]

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Prime Minister pushes city officials on beltway report 

April 1, 2011
Prime Minister pushes city officials on beltway report 

Construction on the Tan Son Nhat – Binh Loi – Outer Ring Road project in Ho Chi Minh City. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called for strict punishment of any misconduct relating to the roadway’s construction. The central government has ordered officials in Ho Chi Minh City to quickly resolve the irregularities discovered during [...]

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Prime suspect hangs himself as police close in 

February 18, 2011

  The prime suspect in the murder of a gold trader last month in the Central Highlands town of Da Lat was found hanging from the railing of his karaoke lounge on Tuesday (February 15). The case began on January 24, when Truong Thi Le, 74, walked to her roadside stand in the town’s Hoa [...]

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PM owns up 

November 28, 2010
PM owns up 

A 150,000-ton oil tanker built by Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, a Vinashin affiliate. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has acknowledged the government’s role and his responsibility in Vinashin’s grave fiscal woes. “As head of the government, I would like to take responsibility for the government’s limits and weaknesses,” he said during a National Assembly [...]

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PM wants to see more results in corruption fight

January 15, 2010
PM wants to see more results in corruption fight

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said Vietnam’s war on corruption must begin yielding results, especially by curbing land and tax graft, which he said caused major losses to the state budget every year. “We’ve begun to contain corruption in terms of the misuse of public valuables,” Vu Tien Chien, office head of the Anti-corruption [...]

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US dollar quietly decreasing in value in Vietnam

January 14, 2010
US dollar quietly decreasing in value in Vietnam

LookAtVietnam – The dollar price, both the exchange rate quoted by commercial banks and the price on black market, has been decreasing after efforts by government agencies to stabilize the forex market. The State Bank of Vietnam announced the interbank exchange rate of 17,941 dong per dollar for January 12, a rate which has been [...]

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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...