• Storms and poverty spark desperate Vietnam gold rush

    Storms and poverty spark desperate Vietnam gold rush

    02/12/2009 05:00

    The Kroong River in Hong Thuy commune, central province of Thua Thien – Hue city , is at the heart of a Vietnamese gold rush after recent typhoons. After several recent storms devastated the central region, many families were left with nothing....

  • IBM says will help HCM City with facelift

    IBM says will help HCM City with facelift

    02/12/2009 05:00

    The U.S. giant technology innovator IBM said on Tuesday it would send its first teams of IBM executives to HCMC to give advice to city leaders how to improve the living quality. Ho Chi Minh City. The promise was made by IBM at the SmarterCities Conference on...

  • Natural disasters kill over 480 people so far

    Natural disasters kill over 480 people so far

    02/12/2009 05:00

    Natural disasters have left 481 people dead or missing over the past 11 months, reported the General Statistics Office. Natural calamities also destroyed public and private property, including 42,000 hectares of rice and subsidiary crops, 11,000...

  • Low income people may not benefit from preferential tax

    02/12/2009 05:00

    Bui Dang Dung, a member of the NA Committee for Finance and Budget, spoke to Investment newspaper about why the NA had declined to vote on draft VAT . . . The main reason was because the Finance Ministry wants to reduce value added tax and corporate income...

  • Global warming threatens food supply: Vietnam

    02/12/2009 05:00

    Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest rice exporter, said Wednesday it needs help to safeguard the world’s cooking supply from the consequences of global warming. “The rice bowl of Vietnam will...

  • Acid rain widely prevalent in Vietnam

    02/12/2009 05:00

    Up to half of the downpours in Vietnam are acid rains caused by air pollution, an environment research center said Wednesday. Duong Hong Son, director of the Environment Research Center under the Institute of Hydrometeorology, Science and...

  • Road project manager arrested on embezzlement charges

    02/12/2009 05:00

    Tran Hoai An (C) Police in Hanoi on Wednesday detained a former project manager involved in the construction of the north-south Ho Chi Minh Road to investigate allegations he had stolen VND10 billion from the work....

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