New hospital building delayed due to slow compensation for residents A design of the new facility for HCM City Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopaedics. Source http://www.medinet.hochiminhcity.gov.vn Slow compensation for residents affected by the construction project has delayed construction on a new facility for HCM City Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopaedics for six years. The project to build the new facility was approved by the Prime Minister in 2010. In 2011, investors designed to build a 5,000-square metre facility, which was later expanded to more than 7,000 square metres. HCM City People’s Committee has instructed the authorities of Bình Chánh District, where the new facility will be located, and investors to speed up the construction many times, but the project still has not yet been started. In 2016, for instance, the committee required that the project begin in December of that year and would be expected to be completed this year. According to the … [Read more...] about Social News 4/4 (Hourly Updated)
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Vietnamese ministries, top officials face punishment in $392mn acquisition deal
Vietnam’s state inspectorate has suggested a police probe be launched into an investment scandal involving a leading mobile carrier, putting different ministries and high-ranking officials at risk of punishment for their involvement in the affair. Mobifone, the company at the center of the high-profile case, has had a deal to acquire a 95 percent stake in local pay TV operator AVG in late 2015 probed by the state inspectorate after authorities ruled the deal was made in violation of a number of protocols. State inspectors concluded their investigation earlier this week and suggested on Wednesday that the Ministry of Public Security launch another probe into the case to ensure relevant individuals are held accountable for their wrongdoings. The call for an investigation made national headlines as three different ministries and several top officials under the management of the Politburo, the most powerful arm of the Vietnamese political system, and the Secretariat of the Communist … [Read more...] about Vietnamese ministries, top officials face punishment in $392mn acquisition deal
Vietnam athletics on top of ASEAN
Vietnam ended Thailand’s long time dominance at the biennial Games to lead with 17 gold, 11 silver and six bronze medals. Apart from pocketing seven gold medals more than their target, the Vietnamese also set two SEA Games and five national records. This is the first time that Vietnam are the overall athletics champions since the Games began in 1959. Thailand, who have been on top since 1989, were second with nine titles, followed by the hosts, who ended their best-ever Games in history with eight gold medals. “At the previous SEA Games, Thailand won 11 golds, while Vietnam only had 10 at the 27th Games, and 11 at the 28th event. This year, with 17 titles, Vietnamese athletes made magic in Kuala Lumpur, and for the first time outclassed their archrivals to be No 1,” Nguyen Manh Hung, general secretary of the Vietnam Athletics Federation, told Việt Nam News. “Based on this positive result, we can say Vietnam athletics … [Read more...] about Vietnam athletics on top of ASEAN
Trouble-free tanning: Saigon’s top spots for catching the rays without making the headlines ed
By many foreign standards, Vietnam is still a moderately conservative country. So where can tourists and sweaty expats in Ho Chi Minh City go to strip off and soak up the tropical sun? Two foreign tourists caused outrage in Hanoi earlier this month when a video appeared to show them sunbathing in bikinis on a grassy bank beside Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake. Given the sacred location and local attitudes towards appropriate dress, their behavior was deemed inappropriate and offensive by many commentators and law officials. But, as a sun-lover myself, hailing from the U.K., a country where summer can come and go in the space of a day, I can (almost) understand the girls’ logic, even if it was applied without much thought as to their surroundings. Despite boasting year-round temperatures of 30-degrees or more, life in Saigon, in particular, can often be completely void of any exposure to the bright round ball in the sky. As we hop from air-conditioned cars to air-conditioned … [Read more...] about Trouble-free tanning: Saigon’s top spots for catching the rays without making the headlines ed
Saigon’s top leader faces the music for ‘serious violations’ at state energy giant
Punitive measures are likely for Dinh La Thang, Ho Chi Minh City’s Party chief, for mismanagement at PetroVietnam. The Central Inspection Committee, the top watchdog of the ruling Communist Party, has recommended disciplinary action against Dinh La Thang, the chief of the Party unit in Ho Chi Minh City. In an extraordinary political event that shows the past can always catch up with the present, Thang is now held responsible for a series of “serious” violations several years ago at the state-owned oil and gas group PetroVietnam, his former workplace. In particular, the inspectors held Thang mainly responsible for the mismanagement. He served as the board chairman until 2011, when his political career took off as he joined Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s cabinet as Minister of Transport. The recent inspection only focused on business violations at PetroVietnam. The Party’s inspectors have found that he was responsible for illegal business decisions, … [Read more...] about Saigon’s top leader faces the music for ‘serious violations’ at state energy giant