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Lawmakers worried about Vietnam’s public debt 

November 5, 2011
Lawmakers worried about Vietnam’s public debt 

  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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Clear and present danger 

July 4, 2011
Clear and present danger 

  Soldiers and civilians risk their lives in removing unexploded bombs that continue to kill thousands decades after the Vietnam War Soldiers remove an unexploded bomb out of a rice field in the Mekong Delta in April Nguyen Van Cuong quit his job as bomb deactivator two years ago, but constantly thinks of the “meaningful [...]

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Red River faces bleak future 

March 19, 2011
Red River faces bleak future 

  A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]

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Rare earth minerals: Vietnam needs technology, not export focus 

November 20, 2010
Rare earth minerals: Vietnam needs technology, not export focus 

  Expert says shipping raw materials would be a waste of national resources Samples of rare earth compounds are displayed in the showroom of a Chinese company. China now ranks first in the world for rare earth mineral reserves while Vietnam has reserves of some one million tons. Vietnam should acquire the technology to process [...]

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Methanol, aldehyde found in deadly southern Vietnam rice wine

February 6, 2010
Methanol, aldehyde found in deadly southern Vietnam rice wine

Rice wine with excessive chemical substances added to it killed five people and sent 23 to hospital between Saturday and Monday in the central province of Ninh Thuan, a local health official said on Wednesday. Ninh Thuan Health Department Director Le Minh Dinh said tests showed that two-third of the liquor’s samples taken from shops [...]

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Head-hunters target securities brokers

January 21, 2010
Head-hunters target securities brokers

VietNamNet Bridge – Many securities companies are head-hunting to improve their competitiveness and weaken their rivals.   Who’s hunting? After a two or three month probation period, working with no pay, a novice securities officer would receive 3-4 million dong monthly salary. Meanwhile, the incomes of head officers are ten times higher. According to Dau Tu Chung [...]

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Industrial smoke clouds lungs in northern homes

January 17, 2010
Industrial smoke clouds lungs in northern homes

Smoke rises from two firms in the northern province of Hung Yen at night. Environmental agencies admit companies avoid detection by polluting at night. Vu Thi Nam and all her neighbors have had to seal even the tiniest openings in their homes to prevent industrial dust from seeping in at night.“But we still can’t prevent [...]

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Big losses but huge salaries – is it acceptable?

December 11, 2009
Big losses but huge salaries – is it acceptable?

Tien Phong Daily has roused the public by its revelation of the towering salaries of officials at some money-losing state-owned companies. LookAtVietnam summarizes the series. The SCIC’s headquarters in Hanoi. At a ceremony marking the SCIC’s funding by three state-owned firms subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development last year, Ta observed that though he [...]

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HCM City’s canals heavily polluted

December 11, 2009
HCM City’s canals heavily polluted

LookAtVietnam – Around 70 per cent of the canals in HCM City are heavily polluted, according to the latest report from the city’s Environmental Protection Department. Around 70% of the canals in HCM City are heavily polluted.The pollution has spread into the residential areas from the main canals such as Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe, Tan Hoa-Lo [...]

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Ho Chi Minh City looks to replace polluted water source

October 16, 2009
Ho Chi Minh City looks to replace polluted water source

Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities have approved in principle a plan to replace the increasingly-polluted Saigon River with a nearby reservoir as one of the metropolis’ main sources of water. With the total investment of VND7.5 trillion (US$420.31 million), the project would build a water treatment plant and pumping station at the Dau Tieng Reservoir [...]

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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...