Politics

New verdict enforcement agencies should be independent: experts
09/04/2009 05:00
Officials from a civil verdict enforcement agency in HCMC execute a court verdict relating to a house in District 3. With the government considering setting up new agencies to enforce civil verdicts in Ho Chi Minh City in...
Vietnam paying ODA debts to Japan
09/04/2009 05:00
Speaking to the press this morning on the occasion of Japan releasing the ODA White Book (2007 data), Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Sakaba Mitsuo said that Vietnam had begun paying off its ODA debts to Japan – to the tune of nearly $125 million in 2007....
US contributes $7.3 million to Vietnamâs fight against bird flu
08/04/2009 05:00
The US government will provide US$7.3 million through the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to anti-bird flu projects in Vietnam. Documents relating to the projects were signed by Deputy...
Ukraine presents medal to Vietnamese ambassador
08/04/2009 05:00
Vietnamese Ambassador to the Ukraine Nguyen Van Thanh has received the third-class Georghi Medal of the Golden Fortune International Academy of Rating Technologies and Sociology. Ambassador Nguyen Van Thanh received the medal from Academician Paton....
Gov’t official calls for more investment from Belarus
08/04/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on April 8 received visiting Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleinik Sergey, who is in Vietnam. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on April 8 received visiting Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister...
Vietnam commits to allow foreign lawyers to practice
08/04/2009 05:00
According to commitments in the ASEAN – Australia – New Zealand Free Trade Agreement, Vietnam commits to allow foreign law organisations to use Vietnamese lawyers and foreign lawyers to work at Vietnamese law companies as advisors of foreign laws. At...
John McCain and memory of Hanoi
08/04/2009 05:00
US Senator John McCain paid a visit to places and relics which form the “association” between him and Vietnam. Senator John McCain and the first US Ambassador to Vietnam Peter Peterson on the bank of Truc Bach Lake on April 7. McCain...