January 15, 2012
A woman fans coals to heat up a cooker on the railway track in downtown Hanoi. When investment decisions are made based on corruption, it is not only the honest firms that suffer, but also the public through lower quality and higher cost works. As Vietnam sits on the cusp of becoming a middle income [...]
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January 12, 2012
Tran Thi Thuy's baby with his grandma at home after a baby delivery mistake at Hanoi Ob-Gyn Hospital was cleared Hanoi Ob-Gyn Hospital on Saturday gave the wrong baby to a mother several hours after her delivery. Nurses at the hospital gave the baby of Tran Thi Thuy, tagged with the number 550, to Le [...]
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March 10, 2011
Men pray on the street before the start of the American Muslim Day Parade in New York. A US lawmaker on Thursday was to hold provocative hearings on the alleged radicalization of US Muslims, in a move critics say fans anti-Islam sentiment nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks. Representative Peter King, the Republican who [...]
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December 13, 2009
This toll booth on the Hanoi Highway in Ho Chi Minh City opened in August to replace the old station four kilometers away Toll collection is so rife with inconsistencies that it resembles a money-making racket. They are like humps on a speedway, detractors say.âEvery 30 to 40 kilometers on average there is a toll [...]
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November 4, 2009
An accident site in Ho Chi Minh City after a 30-meter section of a tower crane fell and injured seven peopleLookAtVietnam – Building site accidents, power line mishaps and careless roadwork are killing more members of the public in Ho Chi Minh City than ever before. Police and public prosecutors in Ho Chi Minh City [...]
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November 3, 2009
An accident site in Ho Chi Minh City after a 30-meter section of a tower crane fell and injured seven people Building site accidents, power line mishaps and careless roadwork are killing more members of the public in Ho Chi Minh City than ever before. Police and public prosecutors in Ho Chi Minh City are [...]
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September 12, 2009
Not only local people, experts also are now criticising the Ceramic Road, a significant project to celebrate the 1000th Thang Long – Hanoi anniversary. Historian Le Van Lan couldn’t hide his disappointment over the Ceramic Road project, calling it a “money-making and advertising road”. Painter Tran Luong worried that this outdoor artwork would become “cultural [...]
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August 2, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Hoping for bumper crops and a bigger pay day, Vietnamese vegetable farmers may be misusing pesticides that put both their own healths at risk. Pham Thi Tra, a farmer from Hanoi’s Dong Anh district, is up early, but today he’s not heading for the fields. He’s catching a bus to the capital where [...]
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June 9, 2009
Construction workers build a new overpass along Interstate 294 near Chicago, Illinois, US, on June 1. The âBuy Americanâ plan in US economic stimulus legislation is drawing increasing fire from US trading partners and also has led to confusion as government agencies try to implement the strategy. Ironically, the measure is backfiring on some US [...]
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May 15, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – The competition to get into high schools and universities has become fiercer and fiercer because the number of examinees is much larger than the number of enrolment slots. Students of Hung Vuong Vocational SchoolIn 2007, when nearly 400,000 students failed the high school final exams, an official of the Ministry of Education [...]
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