|
A terrible road accident happened at 2:00 am today when a truck collided with a passenger car in Ha Tinh northern province, killing three and injuring more than 20 people. According to preliminary investigation, the truck bearing number plate 72L-0433 driven by 34-year-old Nguyen Gia Thu heading to the north crashed into a passenger car [...]
Around 20 students from universities in Southeast Asian countries will come to Vietnam to join students of the HCM City Banking University, in a project to assist farmers in the Binh Phuoc province. The project is part of the community economic development program (SEED), implemented by member universities of the ASEAN Link of Training (ALN) [...]
The information that basic wage will increase by VND100,000 ($20) a month as of May 1 2011 doesn’t please government employees, but it makes them worried because goods prices will also rise. The basic wage will increase at the time of the “storm price” in the market. Workers will earn VND100,000 more a month, but [...]
An independent survey conducted by BKAV (Bach Khoa antivirus) in January 2011 shows that computer virus infections in 2010 were not considerably improved, and computer viruses still caused a big loss of 5900 billion dong to users. The losses have been calculated based on the income of computer users and the duration when their [...]
Though the law bans the trade and use of wildlife products, some rich people collect these products to prove their wealth and status. Playing the role of a rich man who is seeking unique products, a VietNamNet reporter got acquainted with a man named Hien in HCM City who sells stuffed wild animals. He showed [...]
“The National Assembly (NA) has approved the construction of nuclear power plants in the Ninh Thuan province, and the plan has not been changed until now”, said NA Office Chair Tran Dinh Dan on March 17, during a press conference on the upcoming NA session. Dan said that the incident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power [...]
The Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) will open in November but the host country – Indonesia – has heated up the atmosphere among the participant countries when it removed women’s football from the games. Over a month ago, at the meeting of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF), the Indonesian Football Federation announced that the [...]
Foreign investors in Vietnam have pointed out that underground fees are the biggest problem for them when doing business in Vietnam. Experts have warned that tax incentives and a cheap labor force will not be enough to attract foreign investors to Vietnam, if the problem cannot be solved. FIEs have to pay too much on [...]
The main actor and actress of “Bay Rong” (Clash) will present their film at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival – SFIAAFF in the USA from March 10-20. According to Van, she and Johny Tri Nguyen will go to Los Angeles and San Francisco to attend press conferences and to introduce “Clash”. Written by [...]
Experts have urged the government to make plans to reduce and exempt taxes become realistic, saying that this will be a good solution to ease the difficulties for businesses and encourage production. Resolution No 11 on solutions to curb inflation and stabilize the macro economy mentions the possibility of reducing or exempting taxes and [...]