Water subsidies raised in rural areas

June 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: areas, ethnic, Poor, rural, State, subsidies, Water

Hanoi – Poor households and ethnic minority families in mountainous, island and border areas will have their water subsidies doubled from 500,000 VND to 1 million VND in the State budget.
The money is for upgrading water supplies and environmental hygiene, said the director of the National Programme for Clean Water and Rural Environmental Hygiene, [...]

Malaysians nabbed for card fraud

June 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: authorities, card, daily, fraud, Malaysians, People, Police

Hanoi – Police investigators have asked authorities to prosecute two Malaysians for using fake credit cards, said the “Cong An Nhan Dan” (People’s Police) daily.
Cham Tack Choi, 24, and Tan Wei Hong, 27, were caught red-handed using fake credit cards to make purchases.
They confessed to having spent some 32,000 USD in a number of [...]

Conference highlights administration reform in anti-corruption drive

June 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: administration, APEC, Conference, drive, economies, highlights, member, reform, solutions

Hanoi – APEC member economies have regarded administration reform as one of crucial solutions to prevent and combat the menace of corruption.

The APEC member economies’ viewpoint was unanimously shared by representatives of international organisations at the on-going International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Administration Reform, which opened in Hanoi on June 25.
Deputy Chief of the Government [...]

National survey shows major shifts in family life

June 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: family, life, major, National, nationwide, shifts, shows

Hanoi – A nationwide family survey has found that domestic violence occurs in about 20 percent of marriages across the country alongside an increase in the rate of divorce.
The family research, a joint project between the government and UNICEF released on June 26, is based on interviews with 9,300 households in all of Vietnam ’s [...]

Remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers repatriated

June 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: Binh Phuoc, Cambodia, February, HCM City, Long An, Military, soldiers, Tay Ninh, Vietnamese, volunteer

HCM City – Four-hundred and three set of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who died in battlefields in Cambodia have been repatriated.
The remains, that were found by Military Zone 7 search teams from February to June 25, were buried in martyrs’ cemeteries in Tay Ninh, Long An and Binh Phuoc provinces.
Military Zone 7 has [...]

Vietnam temporarily stops issuing int’l bonds

June 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: bonds, conditions, favourable, Finance, international, issuing, Minister, stops, temporarily

Hanoi – Finance Minister Vu Van Ninh said that Vietnam will temporarily stop issuing international bonds until favourable conditions come along.
In addition, the Government also decided to reduce bonds-funded investment by 25 percent, the minister added.
In the first issuance of bonds on the international market at the end of 2005, the Vietnamese Government bonds [...]

Blue book on EU-Vietnam cooperation released

June 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: Blue, book, cooperation, development, EU, European, June, released, report, Union, vietnam

Hanoi – The EU “Blue Book 2008” – an annual report on the European Union’s development cooperation with Vietnam – was launched in Hanoi on June 26.
The book’s 10th annual edition provides concretes facts and figures on the achievements of 2007 and indicative commitments for 2008 and underlines the EU’s main policy orientations, primarily [...]