February 5, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam will import 260,000 tomes of salt in 2010, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The price in northern and central provinces is higher, at around VND1 million ($55) per tonne.“This is the commitment of Viet Nam when the country became member of the World Trade Organisation,” affirmed Ngo Chi [...]
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November 22, 2009
Call center agents working at a mobile network facility in Ho Chi Minh City. Hoang Thanh Tra quit her job at a call center last week, complaining that her employers had withheld VND800,000 in pay that was rightfully hers. âNine out of every ten of my colleagues said they would also quit working sooner or [...]
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November 9, 2009
Sam Duc Xuong at the police station of Vi Xuyen town, Ha Giang Province A high school principal in the northern province of Ha Giang on Friday was sentenced to ten and half years in prison for having sex with multiple underage students, according to local newswire Vietnamnet. Sam Duc Xuong, 52, former principal of [...]
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October 10, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A small Japanese group provides training to the wives of HIV-infected men. Akiyo (R) from Japan teaches people to make Furoshiki, a Japanese traditional bag, in Ho Chi Minh City’Ti no longer earns a living as a xe om driver to bring prostitutes to work. She and dozens of other HIV-infected men’s wives [...]
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October 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Ha Noi People’s Committee has just regulated fees for parking on city streets and near residential buildings. A carpark on Co Tan street in Ha Noi. New regulations by Ha Noi People’s Committee force drivers to pay fees for parking on the city’s streets and near residential buildings.“This is part of the city’s [...]
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August 21, 2009
Traffic police officers issues fines to motorcyclists in Ho Chi Minh City. A draft decree has proposed stricter fines for speeding, overloading vehicles, not having a driving license, driving on sidewalks and disobeying traffic police and road signs. The decree submitted to the prime minister Thursday would also fine motorbike drivers carrying children over six [...]
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August 20, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam has proposed that penalties for flight violations be increased to improve safety standards onboard aircraft. Up to June this year, fines totalling VND300 million were meted out to passengers, staff and airlines for breaches to airline safety regulations.Recently, a 14-year-old boy opened an emergency door just [...]
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June 27, 2009
Some female factory workers in Binh Duong and nearby Ho Chi Minh City are hiring instant husbands after they fall pregnant and their lovers flee Ha Hiep still keeps the wedding photo in her rented room in Binh Duong Province so that anytime her little son asks about his father, she has someone to point [...]
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March 31, 2009
Restoration of historical and cultural relics in Vietnam is now going at a fast clip. Individuals and organisations are voluntarily contributing money to re-paint ancient statues and repair temples and pagodas as a way to show their reverence to deities, but⦠Phan Cam Thuong stands behind the ancient colossal statue guarding the main gate of [...]
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March 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Drivers who park their vehicles illegally and cause traffic jams will be fined up to VND1 million (US$57), according to the Ha Noi Department of Transport. Fines for parking violations will range from VND200,000 to VND1 million.Beginning April 2, police forces would collaborate with transportation department inspectors to evaluate and create order at [...]
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