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Any enterprise or individual who exploits, produces or imports five groups of products classified as hazardous to the environment will be imposed with an environment tax in the coming time, according to the Draft Law on Environment Tax. Vietnam each year spends some VND4 trillion from the state budget for environment protection, but the fees [...]
Approximately 90 per cent of the country’s 2,790 craft villages have violated environmental protection regulations, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Environmental Police Department. A brick kiln in District 9’s Long Binh ward in HCM City belches out smoke. “Common among most of these craft villages were contributions to water, air and land pollution,” [...]
– Today, September 9, all stores on Le Loi street, Hoi An ancient city in the central province of Quang nam, are using sedge and paper bags instead of plastic bags. Hoi An people exchange of plastic bags for environmentally-friendly bags. Also today, 10,000 families, organisations and tourists have committed to not use plastic bags. [...]
A class in informatics for staff at the northern province of Bac Ninh’s Science and Technology Department. It is time for the country to tackle shortage of ICT workers. The time is right for Viet Nam to tackle the shortage of qualified workers in the information and communication technology sector, said Vice President of the [...]
Skills shortage among 10 hurdles facing companies struggling to sustain growth Software companies will experience extreme difficulty in 2009, said a report by the Viet Nam Software Association and US-based International Data Corporation (IDC). Software companies are experiencing difficulties this year with only 36 per cent of them likely to achieve sustainable growth. The report [...]
VietNamNet Bridge –The relationship between Saigon Postel and SK Telecom, the partners in the joint venture mobile network S-Fone, appears to be on the rocks. S-Fone’s managing director, Ho Hong Son, told the online newspaper VNExpress that the terms of cooperation between Saigon Postel and SK Telecom must change. The two sides are still discussing [...]
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) is developing a scheme to turn Vietnam into a powerful country in terms of telecommunications and information technology. The Vietnam Economic Times talks with Do Trung Ta, the Prime Minister’s IT envoy cum chief of the National Steering Board for IT, about this scheme. What is the content [...]
No matter what the contents are, the covers of contemporary fiction are sexy. Regrettably, some prestigious publishers have also been pursuing this trend. The second Vietnamese edition of Alessandro Barrico’s best-selling novel “Silk”, published by the Nha Nam company and the Vietnamese Writers’ Association Publishing House, has a half-nude girl on the cover. Also published [...]
Mobile phone service providers have asked for more time to implement pre-paid phone subscriber guidelines just a few days before the deadline. According to the new rule, mobile phone service providers are only allowed to receive registration information from authorised dealers. As instructed in a Ministry of Information and Communications circular, as of August 10 [...]
Professor of neurology Le Duc Hinh, 75, is top of his game in Vietnam. He is a member of many international associations, including the French Society of Neurology and the American Academy of Neurology and can speak three foreign languages fluently. He talks about his life and career. You are one of the country’s leading [...]