• Official suspended for award to Vedan

    Official suspended for award to Vedan

    28/10/2009 05:00

    The Ministry of Health has suspended Hoang Thuy Tien for his involvement in granting an award to mono-sodium-glutamate maker Vedan last week. Nguyen Thi Sinh, director of the Quality and Trademark Development Centre. The Taiwanese invested firm has...

  • Vietnam Rice Festival postponed till December

    28/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – The first rice festival in Vietnam will be delayed from November 11 to December 2 instead of November 26-30 as scheduled. VietNamNet Bridge – The first rice festival in Vietnam will be delayed from November 11 to December 2...

  • Agency will sue over failures to pay social insurance for workers

    Agency will sue over failures to pay social insurance for workers

    28/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – The municipal Social Insurance Agency is planning to take enterprises that have failed to pay social insurance for their employees to court in November. There were currently 55 enterprises in the city that had not paid social insurance...

  • HCM City bus operators plead for higher subsidy

    28/10/2009 05:00

    Bus operators in HCM City are reeling under high losses and want the administration to increase the rate of subsidy that has not been adjusted for the last two years. Bus operators have asked HCM City authorities to increase the rate of subsidy due to losses...

  • Transport department insists on road through HCMC park

    28/10/2009 05:00

    The Ho Chi Minh City Transport Department on Wednesday continued to stick to its controversial plan to create a new road through a park in Tan Binh District to ease the traffic gridlock near the city airport. Dau Anh Phuc, deputy head of the traffic...

  • HCMC road toll plan ‘not practical’: transport minister

    28/10/2009 05:00

    The plan to levy a special toll on cars in order to manage traffic in Ho Chi Minh City is not practical at present, Transport Minister Ho Nghia Dung said Wednesday. “The ministry appreciates...

  • Hanoi plans tighter control over Internet shops

    28/10/2009 05:00

    Hanoi will tighten controls over 3,500 Internet and online game shops citywide through management software, a local newswire reported on Wednesday. Under the pilot project, the software will...

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