Last updated: Sunday, January 15, 2012
The Vietnam Football Federation has only itself to blame for the current controversy raging over TV telecast rights for Super League games.
VFF early last year signed a 20-year contract with the telecommunications and media company called the An Vien Group for VND6 billion (US$285,000) per year. The contract...
Last updated: Friday, January 13, 2012
Chinese workers in southern Vietnam
Lax regulations are allowing more than 31,330 foreigners to work illegally in Vietnam, labor officials said at a conference this week.
Officials from the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs suggested the government quickly establish an Employment Law to better manage foreign workers,...
Last updated: Monday, December 26, 2011
Vietnam raised electricity prices by 5 percent last Tuesday
The Ministry of Finance said prices of electricity, coal, fuel products and public services, which are heavily subsidized by the government, will be determined by the market no later than 2013.
Prices of these essentials will gradually be “given back to the...
Last updated: Sunday, December 25, 2011
Police are struggling to pinpoint what has caused the explosive fires that have recently plagued cars and motorbikes in Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security said.
In a letter responding to Thanh Nien’s questioning the ministry’s delay in resolving the cases, Pham Van Sinh, deputy chief...
Last updated: Thursday, December 22, 2011
A Petrolimex gas station in Hanoi
The Finance Ministry has found that major Vietnamese importers of oil products made smaller losses than they previously reported.
Petrolimex, the largest fuel trader with a market share of around 60 percent, had reported losses of VND1.8 trillion (US$85.7 million) in the first six months....
Last updated: Friday, December 16, 2011
The Ministry of Transport Wednesday said they will carry out checks on 11 taxi companies that operate at the Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reports.
The report said the inspection is scheduled for December 16-22 and would target firms like Airport taxi, Sai Gon...
Last updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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...
Last updated: Friday, November 4, 2011
Vietnam’s public debt will probably be higher than estimated, as the Ministry of Finance has missed including in its calculations several kinds of debt related to the government, lawmakers said at the National Assembly’s meeting on Friday.
According to the National Assembly’s Finance...
Last updated: Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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...
Last updated: Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Higher hospital fees could prevent the poor from getting treatment and many question if increased fees will improve services
Patients wait to pay hospital fees at Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Trai Hospital. The Health Ministry is evaluating increasing hospital fees as they said...
