• Vietnam wins five certificates at world professional skills competition

    07/09/2009 05:00

    Vietnam didn’t take any medal at the 40th World Professional Skills Competition in Canada but it claimed five certificates. Students of the Hanoi Industrial University. The professional skills certificates were in the fields of information...

  • Bureaucratic delay prompts wildcat strike

    07/09/2009 05:00

    More than a thousand factory workers in Nha Trang , Khanh Hoa Province walked off the job without warning on Monday after years of vainly waiting for their social insurance contributions to be confirmed....

  • Confusion reigns over new Ha Noi advertising rules

    06/09/2009 05:00

    Enterprises in Hanoi continue to raise concerns over a confusing advertising regulation issued by the locau authorities which has been in effect as of September 5. Many advertising billboards are displayed in a building near Hoan Kiem Lake in central Ha Noi....

  • Rising costs, falling demand sending catfish farmers broke

    06/09/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Falling demand and rising costs are forcing thousands of catfish farmers in the Mekong Delta to sell their businesses or go bankrupt. Farmers harvest tra fish in the My Tho Industrial Zone in Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang. Many face...

  • Boat passenger kills captain

    06/09/2009 05:00

    A man known as Trong, onwner of a fishing boat which was hijacked by a passenger on Friday night A fishing boat captain from the south coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau died of knife wounds on Friday night after swimming...

  • VNPT announces rough budget estimate for second satellite

    06/09/2009 05:00

    Vietnam’s first satellite, VINASAT-1, was launched in April 2008. Vietnam Posts and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) plans to invest between US$290-350 million in the country’s second satellite, which it...

  • Supervisor caught taking bribe at Japanese-funded bridge project

    06/09/2009 05:00

    Nguyen Thai Hoa is under police investigation for alleged bribery charge Police in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on Sunday caught a bridge construction supervisor in the act of accepting a bribe from a supplier....

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