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Workers on strike at a Ho Chi Minh City-based company. A bill on demonstration has sparked controversy at the Vietnam National Assembly’s sitting on Thursday, as some lawmakers find the law unnecessary, while others disagree. Hoang Huu Phuoc, a member of the legislature from Ho Chi Minh City, proposed the National...

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  Five times since 2003 the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Citigroup Inc.’s main broker-dealer subsidiary of securities fraud. On each occasion the company’s SEC settlements have followed a familiar pattern. Citigroup neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s claims. And the company...

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Lawyer Pham Thanh Binh, deputy head of Hong Ha Law Firm in Hanoi. A series of loan insolvencies totaling hundreds of billion Vietnamese dong have been detected in Hanoi. This is partly due to the impacts of the economic slowdown, which has savers shying away from legal investment channels because of low profits. They instead...

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  Workers of Taiwanese-owned footwear company Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, on strike last year. A former official from the Ministry of Public Security says the right to strike needs to be protected by laws in Vietnam. The Law on Demonstration...

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State President Sang speaking to the press on July 25. (Photo: Tuoi Tre/Viet Dung) Newly-elected State President Truong Tan Sang spoke with the press after a meeting of the 13th National Assembly, on Monday. You said you were very concerned about the process of addressing corruption. What will you do to fight...

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  International experts condemn China for disrupting Vietnam’s legal marine activities and urged the country to be better prepared for the next encounter Fishermen unloading tunas in the central province of Binh Thuan. On Sunday, Vietnam condemned China for increasing regional...

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  New consumer protection law will lack teeth without several amendments, say experts A woman walks past an advertisement at a shopping center in downtown Hanoi. Vietnam’s first-ever Consumer Protection Law will take effect this July. The Consumer Protection Law that will take...

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This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan University,...

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  A British lawmaker defied a court ruling Monday by naming Ryan Giggs as the footballer who used an injunction to keep details of an alleged affair secret, escalating a row over privacy laws and the Internet. Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming named the Manchester United player using his centuries-old right to...

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  A smoker in September 23 Park in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The government is assessing public opinion on a draft law that would significantly limit smoking in public places. Public health officials say a ban on smoking in public places would be a ‘historic’...

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