• Hanoi to impose new fees for on-street parking

    Hanoi to impose new fees for on-street parking

    22/11/2009 05:00

    Authorities in the capital city are planning to apply new fees for use of pavements and roadsides for motorcycle parking and other commercial purposes. The new fees, likely to be implemented next month, aim to apply more consistent rates across the...

  • Vietnam needs 300 years to be free from unexploded bombs, mines

    Vietnam needs 300 years to be free from unexploded bombs, mines

    22/11/2009 05:00

    International and domestic delegates gathered on November 19 in Quang Tri to find ways of minimising accidents caused by post-war bombs and landmines in central provinces. International and domestic delegates gathered on November 19 in central Quang Tri...

  • Road safety crucial as holidays near

    Road safety crucial as holidays near

    22/11/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – The police and transportation agencies should co-operate to ensure traffic safety and order and reduce accidents. Strict penalties should be meted out for violations of road rules, including speeding, overloading coaches, picking up and...

  • Parliamentary body could look into controversial verdict

    22/11/2009 05:00

    Tran Ngoc Suong , former director of state-run Song Hau Farm in the Mekong Delta’s Can Tho Province The National Assembly’s Justice Committee may supervise related agencies’ handling of the case in which jail...

  • Two dead, one missing in waterfall accident

    22/11/2009 05:00

    Residents in Dong Nai Province look for students swept away by rapids below a the Cay Si waterfall The bodies of two of three students who slipped and were swept away by rapids as they played at a waterfall were found...

  • Tooling up for the future

    22/11/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Last year, the Vietnamese mechanical industry exported US$2 billion in goods - a big step, but still far behind other regional countries. A worker at Machinery Joint-stock Company No 1 checks a rice harvesting machine. The Vietnamese mechanical...

  • New visa rules leave expats bemused

    21/11/2009 05:00

    Foreigners in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. He is married to a Vietnamese citizen and has lived and worked in the country legally for more than a decade. A visa extension has been a routine formality all these years....

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