• Vietnam one of world’s 10 most disaster-stricken countries

    07/10/2009 05:00

    A woman moves on a boat down a flooded street in central Vietnam following the passing of Typhoon Ketsana on October 2 Vietnam is one of the world’s top ten countries in the frequency of natural disasters it faces every...

  • HCMC tax agency short of 3,000 staff

    07/10/2009 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City’s tax agency is in need of over 3,000 staff to effectively deal with the current workload, local newswire Vietnam Net quoted an official as saying on Thursday. While the HCMC...

  • Vietnam improves IT competitiveness ranking

    07/10/2009 05:00

    Less than 20 percent of Vietnam’s population (86.5 million) own PCs, according to a research Vietnam ranks 56th among 66 countries in information technology competitiveness, going up five places over last year, according...

  • Hanoi to build 18 overpasses

    06/10/2009 05:00

    Hanoi is to invest 350 billion dong in building 18 pedestrian overpasses for busy roads including Giang Vo, Thai Ha and Nguyen Trai. An overpass on Giai Phong road. Nguyen Sy Bao, director of the management board of Key Construction Projects in Hanoi,...

  • Lighting firm apologizes for boy’s death, parents angry

    06/10/2009 05:00

    The family of a 13-year-old boy in Ho Chi Minh City who was electrocuted by a power leak from a lamp post said the Public Lighting Company apologized to them on Tuesday but they felt it was not sincere. Co Quoc Hung said the lighting company had...

  • Vietnam’s slips one place to 116th in HDI rankings

    06/10/2009 05:00

    Vietnam is ranked 116th among 182 countries on the Human Development Index (HDI) – a widely used measure of social progress, according to the latest UNDP report released on Monday. Based on the HDI scale running from zero to 1.0 and taking into account...

  • Typhoon Ketsana most powerful in last four decades

    06/10/2009 05:00

    Typhoon Ketsana has been named as Vietnam’s strongest storm in the last four decade by Vietnamese authorities. Cleaning after flood. The Central Standing Committee for Flood and Storm Control on October 6 held a press conference assessing losses caused...

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