Business

Thunderstruck commune in central Vietnam
12/07/2011 05:00
Dozens of residents in Hien Ninh commune in Quang Ninh district of the Quang Binh province are struck by lightening annually. The greatest wish of locals is to “drive away” lightning to live in peace. Hien Ninh is called by...
Coffee exporters buy high, sell cheap
12/07/2011 05:00
A lot of Vietnamese coffee exporters have to purchase coffee from foreign businessmen to fulfill export contracts. The purchase prices are even higher than the export prices. The problem is that Vietnamese exporters have...
Semester in army make many students cry
12/07/2011 05:00
Semester in army (SIA) has rapidly become the hottest program among the programs on practicing life skills now are in fashion among urban youth. However, educators have rung the alarm bell over the loosen control over the type of training....
No proper solution to rescue Saigon River found
12/07/2011 05:00
The Saigon River has become more and more seriously polluted due to the increasingly high volume of untreated water discharged to the river every day. Meanwhile, both competent agencies and scientists are still fumbling for an effective solution to control the...
Are there too many oil refineries in Vietnam?
12/07/2011 05:00
Vietnam has been warned that if it cannot well calculate pluses and minuses, it may face risk when developing oil refineries, especially when the crude oil price is on the rise, while the investment rates on oil refineries become big....
Foreign laborers flood Vietnam
12/07/2011 05:00
Vietnamese law doesn’t allow enterprises to use untrained foreign workers. But in the northern province of Ninh Binh, there is a construction site where unskilled Chinese workers number nearly 1,500 people....
Three Vietnamese extortionists arrested in Germany
12/07/2011 05:00
Three Vietnamese men suspected of shaking down shopkeepers in a German mall. The man in the middle has been identified as Hoi, a 41-year-old ex-convict who acted as the gang's alleged ringleader....