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Public doctors get green light to work at private hospitals
Doctor employees of public hospitals will be allowed to work at private healthcare establishments under part time contracts or run health consultancy services on their own next year, a new legislation says.
133 administrative procedures to be simplified: official,
The Advisory Council for Administrative Formality Reforms has petitioned for 133 administrative procedures in the areas of land, construction, tariffs, customs, import-export, labor, banking and education to be simplified.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently approved a project to transform the Viet Nam Railway Corporation into a parent company-subsidiary model.
ASIA/VIETNAM - Vietnam-Vatican: signs of hope with the visit of Vietnamese President to Italy
'I hope that President Nguyen Minh Triet, who will be in Italy in December, will meet the Holy Father." This is what Agenzia Fides was told be Cardinal Jean Baptiste Pham Minh Man, Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City, recalling that the Holy See has long declared its readiness to normalize relations with Vietnam.
Prime Minister pledges fair corruption investigations
A woman in Quang Nam Province salvages property from her house that was collapsed by floods caused by typhoon Ketsana in September No one guilty of corruption will escape punishment and no innocent people will be treated unjustly, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Thursday in reference to anticorruption efforts in Vietnam.
PM bans use of two-crop land for golf courses
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered that rice fields that yield two crops a year are not used for building golf courses.
Fertile soil not for golf courses, says PM,
VietNamNet Bridge a ' In a draft decision outlining rules on golf course construction until 2020 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung emphasized that fertile agricultural land is absolutely not for building golf courses.
Ideology clash as Jetstar Pacific CEO quits
JETSTAR Pacific, the Vietnamese arm of Australia's budget airline brand, has lost its chief executive, leaving Qantas to deal with emerging ideological differences with the nation's Communist Government.
Obama: Free expression is a universal right
US President Barack Obama, right, is served tea during his bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore at Istana in Singapore, Sunday, Nov.
The proceeds of Vietnam's debut sovereign bond in 2005 - " totaling US$750 million - " are currently on-lent to the shipbuilding group Vinashin.
Vietnam, Finland foster bilateral ties
Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen will pay an official visit to Vietnam on November 15-17 at the invitation of PM Nguyen Tan Dung.
French PM's visit reflects strength of bilateral ties
France is a special partner that has always been given top priority in Viet Nam's foreign policies, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday upon receiving his French counterpart, Francois Fillon.
Thailand is to scrap Cambodia oil deal
Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh asks Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to move closer for a photo session , while Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Japanese business group leader Fujio Mitarai of Keidanren wait, in Tokyo yesterday The leaders are ...
PM greets diplomats from Russia, Panama
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung stressed that ambassadors serve as an important bridge to promote co-operation between countries.
Flowers to commemorate Cambodian independence
Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and President Nguyen Minh Triet sent flowers and congratulatory messages to Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on the 56th anniversary of Cambodia's Independence Day.
Party leader visits victims in isolated, storm-hit areas
Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh urged the coastal central province of Binh Dinh to ensure plenty of medicine and supplies for people still cut off by storm caused floodwaters when he toured the locality yesterday.
Vietnam attaches great importance to Mekong-Japan ties
Vietnam attaches great importance to cooperation in the Mekong sub-region and is ready to actively take part in regional cooperation with Japan, says Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Burmese Rally against Then Sein in Tokyo
About 200 Burmese dissidents demonstrated outside Japan's Parliament House in Tokyo on Friday, the second of three planned protests against Burma's military government during a visit by Prime Minster Gen Thein Sein who arrived in the Japanese capital on Thursday to attend the first Mekong-Japan Summit.
PM tells Lai Chau 'be well prepared' for hydro project
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau to be well prepared for the resettlement of local people who have given their land for the Lai Chau hydropower plant, a key national project.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 99 in central Vietnam on Thursday and authorities estimated damage from the storm at $55 million.
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