Archive for December 9th, 2005
‘Clean’ poultry to go on sale in Hanoi
The deputy director of the Phuc Thinh joint-stock Co Vuong Tuan Ngoc said that clean bird meat of the company will be sold in 10 markets and supermarkets in Hanoi on December [...]
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Asthma worsens in Hanoi
There has been a sharp increase in the number of people with asthma, said Dr Do Truong Thanh Lan from the department of clinical allergy and immunity in Bach Mai Hospital in [...]
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Dengue fever spreads
The dengue fever epidemic in HCMC is spreading quicker, as the HCMC Center for Preventative Health reported 1,200 cases in November compared to the average of between 600 and [...]
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HCM City doctors accused of dodging income tax
A large number of doctors earning top wages at HCM City hospitals have yet to pay their taxes for the year, the tax department in Vietnam’s southern hub said. Only some [...]
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WHO gives warning over raw eggs
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) confirms that bird eggs being heated over 70 degrees Celsius for 30 [...]
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Rush to produce new flu vaccine
A group of pharmaceutical companies plans to get the jump on a globally feared new strain of flu virus by completing clinical tests on a model vaccine prior to a possible [...]
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Tamiflu sales banned to avoid overuse
Vietnam, where bird flu has killed 42 people, has banned the sale of anti-viral Tamiflu to avoid overuse of the drug, a health ministry official and state media said on [...]
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All quiet on bird flu front
No new reports of bird flu outbreaks have occurred in Hanoi, Dong Thap and Bac Lieu, confirmed the agriculture ministry on December 6 during the Consultative Group Meeting [...]
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Cambodian border town bets on vice
The noonday sun does not discriminate. It scorches old men wheeling ragged, homemade carts stacked high with sandals and baskets to market across a bridge at the Thai border. [...]
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CLMV To Reap Fruits Of Economic Integration
The second Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam (CLMV) Summit to be held here on Sunday is seen as significant to these lesser developed economies of Asean in terms of economic [...]
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Vietnam to receive AISP preferential tax rates
The Multilateral Trade Policy Department of the Ministry of Trade has announced that Indonesia and Malaysia will apply the preferential tax rates of the Asean Integration [...]
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Vietnamese domain names pricing
Owners must pay 450,000 dong to register a new domain name; 250,000 dong to change a domain name; and 480,000 – 24,000,000 dong per annum to maintain a domain name. [...]
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Petrol tax hiked
The Minister of Finance has decided to raise import duty rate on oil and petrol items of group 2710 from 5% to 10%. The new rate will be indicated in customs declarations [...]
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Computer-based accounting
The Ministry of Finance has stipulated that, to be applied by businesses, an accounting software must: (i) support and comply with accounting regulations of the state without [...]
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Carrying forward forex losses
According to the General Department of Taxation, where a business uses a foreign currency as its accounting unit, it may determine losses and register to carry forward losses [...]
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