• Apartment service fees draw fire

    Apartment service fees draw fire

    16/12/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – A draft regulation on residents service fees in HCM City apartment buildings has met with resistance from investors, . . . Owners of apartment buildings in HCM City have raised their voices against a draft regulation to increase residential...

  • Finance Ministry discloses pay of SCIC officials

    16/12/2009 05:00

    The Ministry of Finance has stated that although some officials hold concurrent appointments as officials of the SCIC, the most they earn from the latter responsibilities is around VND2 million a month. The sensational story as reported by Tien Phong...

  • Students missing after fall into northern river

    16/12/2009 05:00

    A group of Yen Bai seventh-graders went missing after falling into the Red River in the northern province on Sunday, a local official said. The accident happened when nine students from Tran Yen District’s Co Phuc Town Primary School were playing on...

  • First Vietnamese innovator honored at UN-run awards in Seoul

    16/12/2009 05:00

    The head of a drainage and urban development firm in the southern coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on Monday became the first Vietnamese to win an award at the South Korea Innovation Fair this week. Hoang Duc Thao, general director of the Ba Ria-Vung Tau...

  • Southern power plant caught burying untreated toxic waste

    16/12/2009 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City police Monday found the local Hiep Phuoc Power Plant burying untreated toxic waste on its own land just hours after a raid on the facility. According to HCMC environmental...

  • Nation honors founder of Vietnamese Buddhism

    Nation honors founder of Vietnamese Buddhism

    16/12/2009 05:00

    The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha held a ceremony on Dec. 16 to mark the 701st anniversary of the attainment of Nirvana of King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong, the founder of Vietnamese Zen Buddhism. Monks at Quang Duc Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City commemorate the 701st...

  • HCM City loses control over water pipes

    15/12/2009 05:00

    While HCM City is trying to reduce its water loss water pipes and tanks have repeatedly been reported broken at many drainage and water supply projects in the city. While HCM City leads in Vietnam for the water loss ratio – around 40 percent –...

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