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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July 4, 2011
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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March 19, 2011
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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November 20, 2010
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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February 6, 2010
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 liquorâs samples taken from shops [...]
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January 21, 2010
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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January 17, 2010
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.âBut we still canât prevent [...]
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December 11, 2009
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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December 11, 2009
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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October 16, 2009
Ho Chi Minh Cityâs authorities have approved in principle a plan to replace the increasingly-polluted Saigon River with a nearby reservoir as one of the metropolisâ 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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