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The tropical storm in the East Sea became a storm this morning, September 10. This is the seventh typhoon in the East Sea so far this year, and it may affect northern Vietnamese provinces. At 4am on September 10, the storm’s eye was around 440km East – Northeast of the Hoang Sa peninsula (Paracel …
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 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 [...]
The capital will launch projects to build such dormitories for some 100,000 students next month. The capital will launch projects to build dormitories for 100,000 students next month, according to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Phi Thai Binh. More than VND600 billion (US$33 million) has been earmarked by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung [...]
By April 1, 2009, Vietnam had 85.789 million people, of which 49.5 percent were men and 50.5 percent women. Vietnam is the third most-populated country in Southeast Asia and 13th in the world, announced the General Statistics Office’s chief Nguyen Duc Hoa on August 13. According to the General Statistics Department, in the last ten [...]
The Phan Chu Trinh-Tran Hung Dao intersection in Hanoi flooded on July 20 after heavy early morning rains. Hanoi needs more money to save itself from floods like those that killed 20 people and caused trillions of dong worth of damage last year. The rainy season in the capital city usually starts in August and [...]