• Vedan pays $6.16 million environmental fees

    Vedan pays $6.16 million environmental fees

    01/12/2009 05:00

    Vedan Vietnam has paid 111 out of over 127 billion dong of environmental fees, reported the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of the southern Dong Nai province. The factory of Vedan on the bank of Thi Vai River. This company has also paid...

  • Lucky farmer strikes gold in Central Province

    Lucky farmer strikes gold in Central Province

    01/12/2009 05:00

    A poor farmer in the central province of Nghe An recently found a piece of gold of 2.1kg while working in the fields. The 2.1kg piece of gold. The lucky man is Lo Van Oi, 26, in Yen Hoa commune, Tuong Duong district. Oi’s Hao village has been stirred...

  • Agencies co-operate to fight low-grade, fake fertilisers

    Agencies co-operate to fight low-grade, fake fertilisers

    01/12/2009 05:00

    In an effort to curb the prevalent manufacturing and importation of low-quality and counterfeit fertilisers, the Viet Nam Association of Fertilisers signed a co-operative agreement . . . Compared to the same period last year, there has been a 7 per cent...

  • Social insurance baffles employers

    30/11/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Many enterprises and companies in HCM City were still not clear about their health and unemployment insurance obligations. Their confusion concerned both the amount of unemployment insurance as well as procedures for collecting and paying it,...

  • HCM City to charge for pavement use, build more parking lots

    30/11/2009 05:00

    HCM City officials plan to collect fees for use of pavements and roadsides for parking and commercial purposes and build more underground parking lots . . . Cars park along HCM City‘s Nguyen Hue city Street. The city plans to collect fees for use of pavement...

  • HCM City architecture lacks character

    30/11/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – The architectural character of Ho Chi Minh City lacks coherence, creativity and a specific identity of its own, experts said at a meeting held last week. An ageing tenement in HCM City’s District 10 is in a dangerous state of disrepair....

  • Dong Nai firms fined for environmental pollution

    30/11/2009 05:00

    At least 33 firms in the southern Dong Nai Province have been found polluting the environment with untreated wastewater and exhaust fumes, and are set to be fined, officials said Sunday. The provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment...

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