January 9, 2012
A man (L) stands in front of an ATM while a homeless man sleeps in front of an advertisement on a street in Hanoi January 3. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has acknowledged the surging influence interest groups have on the policymaking process, calling for increased transparency to tackle the issue. Prime Minister Nguyen [...]
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December 25, 2011
Part of the cover of the Vietnamese-Korean fairy tale collection, "The lazy Boy who Turns to a Cow," will be released in the middle of January 2012. A book release to introduce the second book in the collection “Vietnamese – Korean Fairy Tales” will take place at Hanoi’s National Library on December 28. The release [...]
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November 21, 2011
Bao Tin Minh Chau gold bars are displayed for sale at a gold shop in Hanoi Experts say gold buyers may fall victim to new restrictions planned for the bullion market, with concerns rising over potential monopolistic control. Dinh Nho Bang, vice chairman of the Vietnam Gold Traders Association, said the plan to reduce [...]
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November 5, 2011
Five times since 2003 the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Citigroup Inc.’s main broker-dealer subsidiary of securities fraud. On each occasion the company’s SEC settlements have followed a familiar pattern. Citigroup neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s claims. And the company consented to the entry of either a court injunction or an SEC [...]
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November 5, 2011
Vietnam’s public debt will probably be higher than estimated, as the Ministry of Finance has missed including in its calculations several kinds of debt related to the government, lawmakers said at the National Assembly’s meeting on Friday. According to the National Assembly’s Finance and Budget Committee, their review showed that the country’s public debt will [...]
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October 30, 2011
A bus worker collects fares on a bus in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese officials should start by gaining people’s trust in the quality of public transport services as the first step toward solving Vietnam’s traffic problems. The public was outraged by news reports last week that a bus driver and his assistant attacked a [...]
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October 29, 2011
Club owners at a meeting early this month. Football club owners want the country’s top-tier V-League and second-tier First Division to be managed by a joint stock company rather than a limited liability one. The club owners strongly disagree with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism who want [...]
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October 26, 2011
Bangkok’s second airport shut down Tuesday as floodwaters advanced into the Thai capital, forcing authorities in “crisis mode” to declare a five-day public holiday in preparation for the deluge. The cabinet ordered an October 27-31 holiday for Bangkok and 20 other provinces affected by the kingdom’s worst flooding in decades, amid warnings a high [...]
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October 11, 2011
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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September 27, 2011
Tran Thu Ha’s three new albums and poetry collection traverse the personal and the political, revealing a dynamism rarely found in young artists Ha Tran posed with a fan and her first book of poetry Thap ky yeu at Phuong Nam Bookstore in Ho Chi Minh City For 34-year-old singer Tran Thu Ha, releasing [...]
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