• Health Insurance Law weightless without implementation decree

    Health Insurance Law weightless without implementation decree

    26/06/2009 05:00

    With just three days to go before the new Health Insurance Law takes effect, health care workers and patients are worried because hospital officials have received no instructions on implementing it....

  • Foreign Ministry stresses Le Cong Dinh arrest is VN’s internal affair

    Foreign Ministry stresses Le Cong Dinh arrest is VN’s internal affair

    25/06/2009 05:00

    At the regular Foreign Ministry press conference on June 25, spokesman Le Dung emphasized that the arrest of HCM City lawyer Le Cong Dinh is entirely consonant with Vietnamese and international law and it is an internal affair of Vietnam. At the regular...

  • US statement on arrested lawyer groundless: official

    25/06/2009 05:00

    A June 15 statement made by a spokesman for the US Department of State regarding the case of arrested lawyer Le Cong Dinh is groundless, a senior diplomat has said. Nguyen Phuong Nga, deputy head of the Foreign Ministry’s Press Department, made the...

  • Soldiers’ remains head home to US

    Soldiers’ remains head home to US

    24/06/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – A ceremony to mark the repatriation of remains of several US servicemen who died during the war in Viet Nam was held yesterday at the Da Nang International Airport. Photo: VNN It was the 110th handover of missing US servicemen’s remains since...

  • First-half ODA commitments up 16 percent

    24/06/2009 05:00

    Vietnam has signed agreements worth more than US$1.78 billion in official development assistance (ODA) with international donors in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 15.9 percent. Of the committed ODA, $1.7 billion was in the form...

  • Suspected US troop remains sent home from Vietnam

    Suspected US troop remains sent home from Vietnam

    24/06/2009 05:00

    Remains believed to be those of two American servicemen killed during the Vietnam War were placed on a plane in central Da Nang city on Wednesday and sent back to the United States to be identified....

  • POLITICS IN BRIEF 25/6

    POLITICS IN BRIEF 25/6

    24/06/2009 05:00

    Concerted effort vital to halt economic downturn; Security has key role in socio-economic progress; Vietnam’s People’s Army to turn into regular and elite force; Vietnam keen to boost ties with Panama, Austria Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh meets workers...

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