• Five foreigners sentenced to death for drug transport

    25/12/2009 05:00

    The Quang Ninh provincial People’s Court on December 25 handed down death sentences on five foreign nationals on charges of illegal cross-border transport of drug and money. The five defendants at the court on December 25. (Photo: Vnexpress) The five...

  • Ministries to intervene in VNPT-EVN price tussle

    25/12/2009 05:00

    The Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group has complained that the power utility Electricity of Vietnam is threatening to remove its cables from electric poles unless the former accepts higher prices for using them....

  • Five Chinese drug smugglers sentenced to death

    25/12/2009 05:00

    Five Chinese nationals were sentenced to death Friday for smuggling drugs and money into Vietnam. The People’s Court of the northern Quang Ninh Province handed down the death sentence to Lu Minh Cheng, Chan Kwok Kwong, Ieong Chi Kai, Wang Hui Lan and...

  • Southern hub charges more for water next year, more until 2013

    25/12/2009 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City will provide potable water at higher prices from March this year, and prices will be increased every year until 2013, the city’s sole water supplier said at a press briefing Friday....

  • Dung Quat oil refinery to close for three weeks

    Dung Quat oil refinery to close for three weeks

    24/12/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s first oil refinery Dung Quat began reducing its capacity at 12am on December 22 ahed of a total closure to fix technical errors before its hand over. During the three weeks of closure, the Technip contractor group...

  • Vietnamese plane faces technical makes urgent landing in Russia

    24/12/2009 05:00

    A Vietnam Airlines aircraft made an emergency landing at a Russian airport due to a technical problem on Wednesday. There were no casualties, an airlines spokesperson said. Le Hoang Dung, spokesman for the national carrier, said the incident happened...

  • City reclaims freight yards for schools, resettlement homes

    24/12/2009 05:00

    The Ho Chi Minh City government on Wednesday approved a plan to revoke 33 public freight yards covering 5.8 hectares for social welfare projects. City councilors early this year found that the freight yards, all in District 8, had been left idle for...

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