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  Vietnam’s shipbuilding giant Vinashin is weighing penalties for those responsible for its losses, the Prime Minister said, answering questions at a recent National Assembly session over the giant’s debts. Nguyen Tan Dung said the state-owned group has finished identifying people responsible for...

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View of the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris December 6, 2011. The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as “The OC,” short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: “L Team,” short for Larry’s Team. The...

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Electricity of Vietnam's debt-to-equity ratio is not safe, according to the Ministry of Investment and Planning. Electricity of Vietnam has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.25, much higher than the average 1.98 for the country’s state-owned enterprises, news web site VnExpress reported Saturday, citing the Ministry of...

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  A set of wall paintings by young graffiti artists has inspired a conversation about art, culture and the changing times in a HCMC neighborhood. One of the half-length portrait murals portraying a member of the Click9 project The area around this old Pho Shop will never be the...

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Illegal copies of several books displayed by local publisher First News at a Ho Chi Minh City press conference Tuesday. Compass, a US publishing group, said Tuesday it will file lawsuits against several businesses in Vietnam which have pirated its TOEIC and TOEFL iBT books. Joanne Jalbert, the group’s Director of Business,...

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  Young people offer books for free reading in public spaces Several people of different ages visit the book stall arranged on the tiled floors of a gazebo at the city’s Tao Dan Park by Nguyen Thu Hien (right) and her friends Nguyen Thi Hien is up at 6 a.m. on a Sunday, eager,...

Tags: The City, The Group, To Read Them

  Sixteen former Vinashin officials and three government ministries implicated in the company’s financial debacle A ship assembled by the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin)’s Ha Long Ship Building Company in the northern Quang Ninh Province. Three government...

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  The members of  Ho Chi Minh City’s Great Bear Club have poured into the park for a summer of exercise and fun Members of the Sao Bac Dau (Great Bear) Club stand ready for review at Tao Dan Park on Sunday Last week, summer officially began for Vietnam’s school children. On...

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  A trio of modern dancers are struggling to transform a small, old theater in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 into a hive of creative energy. This January, more than a hundred people (both foreign and local) attended a series of workshops at Le Thanh theater where professional...

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A 150,000-ton oil tanker built by Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, a Vinashin affiliate. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has acknowledged the government’s role and his responsibility in Vinashin’s grave fiscal woes. “As head of the government, I would like to take responsibility for the government’s...

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