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The National Assembly Standing Committee began its 23rd session today with a discussion on the Natural Resources Tax Bill and Property Tax Bill. National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the opening of the 23rd National Assembly Standing Committee session on September 9. At the opening, Minister of Finance Vu Van Ninh presented the [...]
They passed the university entrance exams and have arrived in Hanoi to follow their dream of higher education. Even before they register, however, a sizeable number of students are facing serious financial problems. Many have no idea how they will pay for their education over the next four years, according to this report from Dan [...]
By September 7, 2009, there had been 10,918 petitions submitted for compensation from Vedan for losses caused by pollution totalling nearly 1.3 trillion dong. Farmers living along the Thi Vai river are awaiting Vedan’s compensation. Chairman of the Dong Nai Province Farmers’ Association, Tran Nhu Dong, told VietNamNet on September 7 that Vedan announced it [...]
The global economic outlook is still gloomy and no early recovery from the current recession can be expected, a United Nations report said on Monday. Despite some “green shoots” of economic recovery, “the economic winter is far from over,” said the Trade and Development Report 2009, released by the UN Conference on Trade and Development [...]
A year after forging a working agreement with Australia’s discount airline, Jetstar, and changing its name to Jetstar Pacific Airlines (JP), the Civil Aviation Authority has told Vietnam’s first budget airline it cannot use the familiar Jetstar logo. CAAV – the unit of the Ministry of Transport that regulates commercial airlines — reportedly believes that [...]
Vietnamese people have a popular play on the words “hanh chinh” (administrative works): “hanh la chinh” (making trouble is the top priority). This reflects popular opinion about administrative formalities in Vietnam. Administrative formalities are necessary to operate a society, but in Vietnam the numbers of administrative formalities are uncountable at many ministries and government agencies. [...]
The HCM City People’s Committee continues to pursue its proposal to increase fines on traffic violations within the city to curtail traffic jams and accidents. The city has once again asked the Prime Minister to permit the country’s two largest cities, Hanoi and HCM City, to double fines for traffic violations. The Ministry of Transportation [...]
A senior Finance Ministry official says there will not be an end-year inflationary spike and the total price run-up for the year will be under seven percent. Vu Dinh Anh, the deputy director of the Market and Price Research Institute, a unit of the Finance Ministry The on-line newspaper VNExpress talked with Vu Dinh Anh, [...]