• Construction sites a hanging threat to HCMC residents

    Construction sites a hanging threat to HCMC residents

    27/09/2009 05:00

    Motorists and pedestrians braving Ho Chi Minh City’s traffic-packed streets now have to face a new danger: falling construction cranes and scaffolding. As more high-rise buildings go up across the city, more pieces of construction equipment drop from...

  • Residents kill trees for bigger front yards

    27/09/2009 05:00

    An electrical socket installed on a tree on No Trang Long Street, Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City residents are illegally chopping down, poisoning and disfiguring trees across the metropolis in order to clear land in...

  • Diesel leaked at major central Vietnam depot

    27/09/2009 05:00

    Da Nang City residents salvage diesel from city drains as thousands of liters leaked a local depot. Hundreds of thousands of liters of diesel oil leaked from a pipeline at a major fuel depot into the central city of Da...

  • Six officials jailed in Nam Dinh adoption scam

    27/09/2009 05:00

    Six health and charity officials in northern Nam Dinh Province involved in an adoption scam were sentenced Monday to jail terms of two to four and a half years. They were among 16 officials tried...

  • Vedan refuses $31m compensation demand

    26/09/2009 05:00

    Vedan Vietnam on September 25 refused to compensate famers 569.5 billion dong (US$31.6 million) for the losses it caused by polluting the Thi Vai River. Vedan officially refuses to pay farmers $31.6 million in compensation for releasing untreated wastewater...

  • HCMC to go underground with power lines

    26/09/2009 05:00

    The Ho Chi Minh City Power Company will spend VND50 billion (US$2.8 million) to remove the tangle of overhead power lines and telecom cables on Tran Hung Dao Street and lay them underground. The...

  • Trial of former PMU18 officials postponed for more investigations

    26/09/2009 05:00

    Bui Tien Dung, former director of the transport ministry’s PMU18 The trial of five former Project Management Unit 18 (PMU18) officials was suspended on its opening day Thursday as the Hanoi court ordered more...

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