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Business Today
March 19, 2018
Besides creating headlines across the globe, the airline has been penalized by the Vietnamese authorities for its raunchy stunts. For instance, the civil aviation authority of Vietnam reportedly levied a fine of 40 million dong ($1,761), and fined the plane's chief flight attendant 4 million dong for the last year'sÃâà...
CalvinAyre.com
March 19, 2018
On Monday, Vietnamese authorities set the record straight on what they said were “inaccurate reports” about the crackdown on a major online gambling operation based in the northern province of Phu Tho, VietnamPlus reported. The police raid last week led to the seizure of around VND1t (US$44m) inÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 19, 2018
Vietnamese authorities have transferred prisoner of conscience Nguyen Van Oai to a remote prison far from his wife and hometown with notifying his family, his ... Vietnamese authorities have been known to move political prisoners far from their homes to make it difficult for family and friends to visit them.
Asia Times
March 5, 2018
Vietnamese officials fear the Blue Whale field, currently being developed in a joint venture between US energy giant ExxonMobil (64% operating stake) and state-run PetroVietnam, could be China's next target for intimidation. The off-shore field, known in Vietnamese as Ca Voi Xanh, is estimated to holdÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
March 5, 2018
Bangkok, March 5, 2018--Vietnamese authorities should stop threatening and drop any pending charges against journalist Pham Doan Trang, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement today. Plainclothes officials on February 24 took Trang, an independent blogger and contributor to theÃâà...
VietNamNet Bridge
March 5, 2018
Vietnam officials visit US aircraft carrier. An inter-sectoral official delegation from Vietnam visited US ... The Vietnamese officials were introduced to the ship's operation, and given a chance to learn about crew members' life and work on the ship. They also engaged in exchanges with the crew members toÃâà...
VnExpress International
March 4, 2018
Vietnamese officials face the music for skipping work during spring festivals. By Xuan Hoa, Viet Linh March 4, 2018 | 04:40 pm GMT+7. Vietnamese officials face the music for skipping work during spring festivals. A still image captured from the video by VTV shows director and staff of the State Treasury office of Nam DinhÃâà...
Belleville News-Democrat
March 1, 2018
27, 1973, U.S. and Vietnamese officials signed the Paris Peace Accords, calling for a cease-fire, repatriation of all U.S. POWs, and a full accounting of those missing in action. As the lead command, Military Airlift Command, today's Air Mobility Command, took responsibility for the planning of OperationÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
February 28, 2018
Pham Doang Trang, author of a recently published book on political engagement that has angered Vietnamese authorities, wrote on Wednesday on her Facebook page that she will not attempt to go abroad to receive her prize. “I haven't gone abroad and don't plan to, not even for a few days to receive theÃâà...
Southeast Asia Globe
February 26, 2018
Vietnamese police have arrested five men attempting to smuggle $2.5m worth of heroin from Laos into China. The men were caught in Vietnam's northern Cao Bang province with 100kg of heroin in their truck, which police shot at as the men attempted to escape, according to the Vietnamese newspaperÃâà...
CIDRAP
February 26, 2018
Several countries reported new avian flu outbreaks, including two more H5N8 events at commercial poultry farms in Iraq, an H5 outbreak at a poultry farm in the Netherlands, and the first known H5N6 detection of the year in Vietnam. In research developments, scientists from France who are exploring whyÃâà...
VnExpress International
February 13, 2018
Vietnam's anti-corruption forces have received 40 tip-offs about bogus holiday gift exchanges at government offices in the past month. Pham Trong Dat, head of the Anti-Corruption Department at the Government Inspectorate, said his office had received around 40 calls and messages about officialsÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
February 12, 2018
Vietnamese authorities have transferred ailing jailed blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh to a remote prison more than 620 miles from her former location in the city of Nha Trang on the country's south central coast without notifying her family, her mother said Monday. Quynh — also known by her bloggerÃâà...
SeafoodSource (blog)
February 7, 2018
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has completed a joint public information campaign with the Vietnamese Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Vietnamese Directorate of Fisheries in Vietnam as part of efforts to combat illegal foreign fishing. More than 200Ãâà...
AgriCensus
December 31, 1999
An influx of US corn exports to Vietnam is the by-product of a DDGS deal thrashed out between the two countries in November 2017, and could see Vietnam re-emerge as a regular export destination for US corn. The country has picked up a number of panamax-sized cargoes in recent weeks for deliveryÃâà...
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