January 2, 2012
Outpouring of frustration and disappointment among youth indicates a need to strengthen pride and confidence in the nation, experts say Young people at an enlistment ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City last September. A national enlistment program this year saw thousands of youth voluntarily join the army. Experts say the sense of national pride [...]
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September 12, 2011
A tower being built on the Pearl River in Guangzhou. Environmental activists say that Vietnam’s poisoned Dong Nai River could meet the same fate as a heavily toxic river in China if serious measures aren’t taken soon. According to a leaked cable from the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China, to the State Department in Washington [...]
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February 4, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has suggested two options for electricity price increases, either by 10.7 percent or 6.8 percent. According to the director of the Price Control Agency Nguyen Tien Thoa, his agency has submitted a report suggesting they raise electricity prices by either 10.7 percent or 6.9 percent from the [...]
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December 2, 2009
Newspaper readers around the world have been amazed by the story of a 55 year-old farmer who has been sleeping with his wife’s remains for five years. Le Van and the statue containing his wife’s bones. This man is Le Van. He lives in a small house with his three younger children and the remains of his [...]
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December 1, 2009
In a meeting with people of District 3, HCM City on December 1, President Nguyen Minh Triet answered questions about the case of labour hero Tran Ngoc Suong. President Triet and the people of District 3, HCM City. Responding to Ms. Vu Thi Minh Khai’s complaint that the Song Hau Farm case verdict is really unreasonable, [...]
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November 28, 2009
Only a month before his death, former PM Vo Van Kiet expressed concern about irregularities in the prosecution of Tran Ngoc Suong to the Can Tho City Party Committee. LookAtVietnam – Only a month before his death in June 2008, former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet expressed concern about apparent irregularities in the prosecution of [...]
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November 27, 2009
Current and former officials have said that the public outcry against the sentence levied against a farm co-op manager gives ample grounds for central authorities to reconsider the verdict. Ba Suong at the appeals court on November 19. (The Can Tho City Appeals Court on November 19 upheld a lower court verdict against Tran Ngoc Suong, [...]
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November 24, 2009
On the sidelines of an NA session, the Justice Committee’s chairwoman said that the committee may review an eight-year prison sentence meted out to elderly labour hero Tran Ngoc Suong. Ba Suong received the Labour Hero title in 1999 and at the trial in August 2009. Ex-farm boss on slush-fund charge Tran Ngoc Suong, 60, former [...]
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November 6, 2009
Experts are calling for central ministry intervention following a dispute between residents of Phu My Hung and the developers over land use fee. Apartment blocks in Phu My Hung residential area. The conflict broke out on October 9 when hundreds of families signed a complaint against the request for land use fees worth between 500-700 [...]
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August 10, 2009
Confusion still reigns in publishing circles over Google’s offer to pay substantial copyright royalities in exchange for the right to digitize and sell electronic copies of over 4000 Vietnamese literary works. Meanwhile, the Vietnam Copyright Center is seeking writers’ proxies to negotiate with Google. Belatedly, Google’s royalties proposal is clarified Google is ‘digitizing’ printed books to [...]
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Disaffected youth?
Outpouring of frustration and disappointment among youth indicates a need to strengthen pride and confidence in the nation, experts say Young people at an enlistment ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City last September. A national enlistment program this year saw thousands of youth voluntarily join the army. Experts say the sense of national pride [...]
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