S. Korea halts two more reactors over faulty parts

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VietNam News English 3 week(s) ago 1 related news

South Korea on Tuesday shut down two nuclear reactors and delayed the scheduled start of operations at two others as part of a widening investigation into a scandal involving fake safety certificates.

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Corruption, poverty and growth concern the people

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Corruption, poverty and growth concern the people

VietNamNet Bridge – People from across the country have submitted over 1,700 messages expressing concern over the unsustainable growth of the national economy, corruption and the widening rich-poor gap, among other issues, to the National Assembly, which opens its fifth session today, May 20.

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Vietnam to cut current expenditures by 10% to narrow state budget deficit

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Hanoi Times English 1 month(s) ago

The Hanoitimes - The Ministry of Finance has proposed the Government cut its current expenditures by another 10% from now to the end of this year, or by VND4 trillion ($191.39 million), to prevent the country’s state budget deficit from widening.

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Health sector faces a workforce crisis

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VietnamNet English 1 month(s) ago

Health sector faces a workforce crisis

VietNamNet Bridge - The gap in the level of expertise among physicians is increasingly widening, breaking the structure of the current health care system in Vietnam, which is divided by levels.

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Securities firm SSI sets high profit goals for 2013

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago

Shareholders of stock broker Saigon Securities Inc approved the year's turnover and gross profit targets of VND995.5 billion (US$47 million) and VND490 billion at the recent annual general meeting.

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Women paid 13% less than men

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VietnamNet English 3 month(s) ago

VietNamNet Bridge – The income gap between men and women in Vietnam is on the rise, although the rate of women working is still high compared to global levels.

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Smuggled gold sneaking onto local market

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Smuggled gold sneaking onto local market

More smuggled gold has been launched onto the local market due to the widening gap between local and global gold prices in recent times, heard a meeting between the HCMC branch of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and related agencies in the city on Monday.

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Establish national gold exchange: experts

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VietnamNet English 1 month(s) ago

VietNamNet Bridge – Experts deemed it necessary to set up a national gold exchange to deal with the widening gap between local and global gold prices - and the preference for keeping gold and using the precious metal as payment.

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Smuggled gold sneaking onto local market

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VietnamNet English 1 month(s) ago

VietNamNet Bridge – More smuggled gold has been launched onto the local market due to the widening gap between local and global gold prices in recent times, heard a meeting between the HCMC branch of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and related agencies in the city on Monday.

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Gold smuggling duo arrested in northern Vietnam

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Báo Thanh Niên English 2 month(s) ago

Police in the northwestern province of Dien Bien have arrested two people for smuggling 15 gold bars weighing a total of 15 kilograms from Laos to Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday.

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National Highway No 1 to be widened

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VietNam News English 2 month(s) ago

The Ministry of Transport and central Quang Binh Province yesterday broke ground for the widening of 29km of National Highway No 1 in Quang Trach and Bo Trach districts.

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Women's day tarnished by gender-based pay gap

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Women's day tarnished by gender-based pay gap

Salaries for female workers at companies account for only between 70% and 80% of those made by male workers in Vietnam, and this gap is widening, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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Rach Chiec Bridge toll kicks off April 1

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Rach Chiec Bridge toll kicks off April 1

HCMC Infrastructure Investment JSC (CII) will be allowed to collect toll fees of the Rach Chiec Bridge project on Hanoi Highway from April 1 in line with a toll collection plan approved by the city’s People’s Council last Friday.

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Local and global gold price gap wider

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SaigonTimes English 5 month(s) ago 1 related news

Local and global gold price gap wider

HCMC – When global gold increased slightly last Friday, the local price rallied much faster, thus widening the difference between world and domestic prices to VND3.3 million per tael from some VND2.6 million recorded early last week.

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Hi-tech park attracts $2.6b in investment

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VietNam News English 5 month(s) ago

As many as 68 projects with total registered capital of VND52.24 trillion ($2.6 billion) have been granted investment licences in Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park in Ha Noi. Twenty of the 68 projects are operational and 13 others are under construction.

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