September 20, 2011
A traffic police officer stops trucks at a mountain pass in Ha Tinh Province on July 24. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Bribing traffic cops to get away with driving overloaded trucks or trucks carrying illegal products is common practice among drivers on highways and roads across the country. A Tuoi Tre report says the situation is [...]
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March 9, 2011
A trio of modern dancers are struggling to transform a small, old theater in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 into a hive of creative energy. This January, more than a hundred people (both foreign and local) attended a series of workshops at Le Thanh theater where professional artists taught courses on installation art, [...]
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January 25, 2010
A maid works in a foreignerâs house in Ho Chi Minh City. Modern appliances and foreign languages are just a few things expats expect their housekeepers to know. Nguyen Thu Phuong, a third-year student at the Hanoi University, works part time as a housekeeper for an Australian family in Hanoi.âI want to earn enough money [...]
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January 11, 2010
Workers buy shoes on the street near the Bac Thang Long Industrial Park in Hanoi. Workers worry inflation will null the value of their extra holiday money. Holding a package of vegetables, tofu and cooking oil she planned to cook dinner with, Le Thi Ha returned to her dilapidated room dead tired after working overtime.She [...]
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December 14, 2009
Companies and organizations will pay higher bonuses for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday in 2010 than this year when the economic slowdown had bitten deep. Tong Thi Minh, head of the Salary and Wages Department at the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that although the ministry has not received any official [...]
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August 15, 2009
Two men use mobile phones in Ho Chi Minh City. Military-run telecom company Viettel is worried that the hefty costs it has committed to developing third-generation mobile phones services will backfire into big losses. âIn the beginning, we were eager for 3G,â said Viettel General Director Hoang Anh Xuan after receiving the companyâs 3G license [...]
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June 30, 2009
LookAtVietnam – There is a shocking downside to tomorrow’s introduction of regulations forcing children six years old or older to wear helmets on motorbikes. Shops and marketplaces throughout Viet Nam have been flooded with substandard headgear, much of it carrying false certificates.The very rules introduced to protect child passengers are being used to create even [...]
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June 27, 2009
One of the local leading record labels, Music Faces, announced June 23 their upcoming national tour “Nhung guong mat am nhac 2009” (Music Faces 2009). It will be on the road from July 3-19, featuring all their popular singers. Duc Tri (R) posing with some artistes who will join the tour, including (from left to [...]
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June 21, 2009
Le Thanh Them, a student from Nong Lam University in Hue, says he is doing good business from growing vegetables with the hydroponic method.LookAtVietnam – Le Thanh Them’s enterprise did not start out as a business but as a friendly gesture. The agriculture student of Nong Lam University in the central town of Hue came [...]
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May 29, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 3,300 children suffered brain injuries in traffic accidents in 2008, according to a report by the Ministry of Health (MOH). Most people have obeyed the regulation on wearing helmets while travelling. A fine for motorcyclists carrying children aged from six to 16 without helmets will be applied from July.The statistic was [...]
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