Vietnam automotive industry to grow fastest in ASEAN: Thai industry insider
Economy 09:26 06/04/2015The aging 67-million-strong Thai market buys around 880,000 units per year, so the 90-million-plus market of Vietnam with a younger age group will have higher demand for personal vehicles in the future
Foreign investors still hurt by Vietnam’s red tape: forum
Tin Tổng Hợp 18:43 05/12/2014International investors still had stories to tell about how their businesses are hindered by Vietnam’s red tape at a business forum on Tuesday, while acknowledging the progress the country has made in simplifying its bureaucratic procedures
Gov’t-granted house of ex-inspector chief to be withdrawn next week
Tin Tổng Hợp 18:41 05/12/2014By the middle of next week, Ho Chi Minh City authorities will withdraw a house from a retired high-ranking official who has been found committing wrongdoings related to the state’s housing and land policies
Vietnam listed among countries with low English proficiency
Tin Tổng Hợp 18:40 05/12/2014Vietnam is among the group of countries which have “low proficiency” in the 2014 EF English Proficiency Index, the Switzerland-based international education company Education First (EF) announced at a press conference in Hanoi on Monday
Vietnam man arrested for marrying 14-year-old
Tin Tổng Hợp 18:39 05/12/2014A young man in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has been captured after getting married to a 14-year-old girl in O Mon District, a local police officer said Wednesday
Vietnam to launch campaign to combat drunk drivers
Tin Tổng Hợp 18:37 05/12/2014Vietnam’s central traffic safety agency has announced a large national campaign to tighten control over the amount of alcohol drivers can drink, with a view to strengthen traffic safety during the coming Christmas, New Year and Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays
Vietnam students run, read from mobile libraries
Tin Tổng Hợp 15:21 04/12/2014A university student in central Vietnam’s Thua Thien- Hue Province has run a sidewalk library for free, while many students of an elementary school in Ho Chi Minh City have read voraciously from their school’s book closets in the past three years
Vietnamese woman killed in hotel room in South Korea
Tin Tổng Hợp 15:17 04/12/2014A 22-year-old Vietnamese woman was strangled to death in a hotel room in South Korean on November 30 by a local man, who handed himself in to police after committing the crime, local police reported
Vietnam adopts new rules allowing 50-year foreign ownership over houses
Tin Tổng Hợp 18:16 28/11/2014Vietnamese lawmakers have approved the revised Law on Housing, allowing foreign ownership of houses or apartments for 50 years, as the government seeks to boost the ailing domestic real-estate market
Airliner, military helicopter narrowly escape colliding above HCMC
Tin Tổng Hợp 19:16 27/11/2014Relevant agencies will meet on Thursday to discuss a dangerous incident in which two aircraft, one civil and the other military, narrowly missed colliding with each other above Ho Chi Minh City on October 29
Da Lat University begins using S. Korean-funded nuclear reactor simulator
Tin Tổng Hợp 19:13 27/11/2014Da Lat University in the Central Highlands city of Da Lat on Monday put into operation a South Korean-funded nuclear reactor simulation system
Taiwan clears customs for 200 tons of Vietnam tea hit by dioxin rumor
Tin Tổng Hợp 17:29 27/11/2014Nearly 200 tons of tea grown in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong was able to clear customs in Taiwan on Thursday after being held for months over a dioxin contamination rumor, the Vietnam Tea Association (VITAS) announced the same day
