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Attendance at many entertainment venues in HCM city has fallen because of competition from the numerous on national television networks as well as the economic turndown. Live performance is lossing to digital one “Lower attendance means less profits, even losses,” said pop star Thanh Thao. Thao lost VND1.4 billion (USD66,000) when she organised the [...]
At least 37 decapitated and dismembered bodies were found Sunday morning on a highway in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, local authorities said. Agents for the Federal Police and Mexican Army watch over the crime scene where decapitated and dismembered bodies were found near a highway of Cadereyta, in the state of Nuevo [...]
Three weeks after the news that “sua” logs worth three hundred billion dong were found in Hung Tri, people have been pouring into Phong Nha-Ke Bang national forest in the central province Quang Binh with the dream of getting extremely rich through “sua”. Each day, hundreds have scoured the forest for “sua” which was thought [...]
Five female soldiers were injured as a service car by army corps No.15 under the Ministry of Defense overturned last Saturday in a road accident in Binh Duong province. According to initial information, the 7-seater Mitsubishi car was going towards the Huynh Van Luy- Nguyen Van Linh crossroad in Thu Dau Mot town, Binh Duong [...]
Strikes have become popular in Vietnam. Most strikes breake out in provinces and cities in the southern key economic region and at foreign invested enterprises. A strike at the Phong Phu Garments Company in late 2011. The direct and biggest reasons include: workers being paid very low, which is far beyond their effort and employers [...]
The jury of the Livre et Mer Festival (Book and the Sea) has announced to present the Grand Prize to Vietnamese writer Bui Ngoc Tan’s “Sea and Kingfisher” novel. Writer Bui Ngoc Tan and his wife. This novel was translated into French (La mer et le martin pêcheur) by Ha Tay. The Livre et Mer [...]
Vietnam’s leading coffee exporter Vinacafe Buon Ma Thuot is facing debts of some VND1.6 trillion (US$77 million), and its officials claim high interest rates and a strong dollar have put them in the current predicament. The company, also known as Tay Nguyen Coffee Investment, Import and Export Co., said its debt had actually reached VND2.9 [...]
Business optimism in Vietnam fell dramatically in the first quarter even as improving optimism in major economies offers hope for global recovery, according to accounting and advisory firm Grant Thornton. There was an increase in optimisim in the Asia-Pacific region, from -9 percent to 2 percent, but the improvement is not reflective of Vietnam, according [...]
Far from home if not away from election-year politics, President Barack Obama is returning to the threat to American security that he calls the gravest of all: terrorists getting material for a nuclear bomb. In South Korea, where Obama is headed, the president will join a massive gathering of world leaders whose united goal is [...]
Under the current Vietnamese laws, the companies like Google and Facebook have to pay tax for the income gained from the business activities in Vietnam, said Nguyen Van Phung, Deputy Director of the Tax Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance Facebook’s, Google’s agents suspected of evading tax in Vietnam Whether the social networks such [...]