• Bus operators hold line on fares

    15/09/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Despite recent petrol-price hikes, transport companies have been forced to keep ticket prices unchanged to remain competitive. Higher petrol prices have eroded the profits of transit companies. On August 30, the petrol price was raised to...

  • Labor Ministry cracks down on subsidy errors

    15/09/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – The Social Affairs Ministry has instructed its local offices to provide accurate, updated statistics on poor families before November 20, 2009. Poverty is defined as a per capita income of less than 200,000 dong per month for rural residents and...

  • Nearly 10,000 people to walk for street children

    15/09/2009 05:00

    Around 10,000 people will walk in Hanoi and HCM City in the morning on September 20 to raise funds for street children and poor children. This is part of a programe for street children and poor children who are keen on studying called “Sharing dreams...

  • Disadvantaged women need more help

    15/09/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Duong Thi Minh Huyen, a 27-year-old resident in Thanh Khe district, central Da Nang city, whose husband went missing after a typhoon three years ago, Tran Thi Tuyet’s family makes shoes for sale from a loan for poor women in Hoa Xuan ward in the...

  • SOCIAL IN BRIEF 15/9

    14/09/2009 05:00

    Groups of langurs spotted in Quang Binh; Regional meeting on the prevention of human epidemics; Japanese women keen to travel to Vietnam; “Dance4Life” calls on people to drive back HIV/AIDS Groups of langurs spotted in Quang Binh Quang Binh forest rangers...

  • Critics pan proposed minimum wages as inadequate

    14/09/2009 05:00

    The Ministry of Labor Invalids and Social Affairs has announced plans to raise minimum wage, but critics say its proposal does not go far enough. Workers at the Tan Tao Industrial Park in HCMC shop at a nearby market. The Government plans to increase...

  • Viet-kieu co-ed’s slaying roils US campus

    14/09/2009 05:00

    Police have found the corpse of missing Yale university medical student Annie Le and confirmed that she was murdered. Police in New Haven, Connecticut (USA) announced on September 13 that after a five day search, the body of a missing Viet-kieu medical...

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