January 16, 2012
Experts at a HCMC university's petrochemistry center check a motorbike as part of ongoing investigations into recent vehicular fires. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Friday ordered related agencies to take urgent steps including checking fuel quality in the market to determine the cause of mysterious vehicular fires. Dodgy fuel is the latest suspect in [...]
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January 15, 2012
Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]
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January 8, 2012
A Transport Ministry’s proposal to impose personal vehicle fees draws mostly negative reaction Traffic congestion on Ho Chi Minh City’s Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Street. A Transport Ministry’s proposal to impose personal vehicle fees has drawn skepticism about its feasibility to reduce traffic congestion in major cities. Experts have expressed doubts over the feasibility [...]
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June 4, 2011
A new fee should be introduced to curb the use of cars, a group of financial investors say. The Vietnam Association of Financial Investors has proposed that the government impose an ownership fee of up to 10 times a vehicle’s worth to curb imports and traffic congestion in the country. The association, a group of [...]
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April 16, 2011
The Honda Civic GX 4DR, a natural Gas vehicle, at a car show in Los Angeles. The greenest car you’ve likely never heard of will soon be hitting Honda showrooms across the United States as the Japanese automaker expands sales of its compressed natural gas powered Civic. Honda has been quietly winning green car awards [...]
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December 20, 2010
A Thanh Nien investigation finds that official vehicles are above the law An official vehicle known, as a “blue-plate”, dips into the motorbike lane on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, Ho Chi Minh City. It’s Monday afternoon and a line of cars is inching forward slowly on Dong Khoi Street in downtown Ho Chi [...]
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January 4, 2010
Police in the central province of Phu Yen found a car carrying 96 monkeys without proper documentation on Saturday, but the driver managed to escape. According to Tuy Hoa Town traffic police, they first tried to stop the Toyota Innova for speeding.However, the driver continued and police chased it for 20 kilometers before stopping the [...]
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December 24, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Tanamexco, which imported cars five months ago, now finds itself unable to get cars through customs because it cannot submit the requisite paperwork. Under the inter-ministerial circular No 03 launched in 2006, “used cars” refer to cars with a minimum mileage of 10,000 kilometers and they must be registered six months before they [...]
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December 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – While most of the owners of modified three- and-four-wheel motor vehicles are still ill prepared to switch their occupation, . . . A man earns his living with his three-wheeled motorcycle in HCM City.“I cannot find any job to switch to and cannot continue my cargo transport service as well since I cannot [...]
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December 22, 2009
A man reads the specs for a Mercedes Benz model at a car dealership in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnamâs carmakers have urged the government to set up a taskforce to study further the proposal that the domestic industry trains its development focus on a strategic vehicle. âWe agree with the necessity of having strategic [...]
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