• In Hanoi’s moneyed commercial centre, corporate HQs and luxury shops sit steps from the homes of people living in tiny rooms too small to stand up in
• After the Vietnam war ended in 1975, people were given small spaces to live in with the hope of larger housing in the future – dreams that never came true

Sen Nguyen, SCMP

Published: 7:15am, 8 Jan, 2020

“If anyone offered me a bigger house in exchange for my leg, I would give it to them in a heartbeat,” says Vietnamese delivery man Hoang Van Xuan, a 56-year-old who lives in a tiny decrepit attic in Hanoi, in the moneyed commercial centre known as the Old Quarter.

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By Ba Do   January 9, 2020 | 03:02 pm GMT+7

Three policemen and a civilian were killed Thursday in a clash at a controversial military airport construction site in Hanoi.

A road running through Dong Tam Commune in My Duc District, Hanoi, January 9, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Viet Duc.

The clash took place a week after some units of the Ministry of National Defense, in collaboration with local authorities, began building a fence for the Mieu Mon military airport in Dong Tam Village, My Duc District, 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, the Ministry of Public Security said.

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Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. Photo: VGP

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh stressed the point in his latest article released Wednesday.Viet Nam assumes the role in the context of profound changes in the region and the world, including prolonged conflicts in Africa, rising escalation in the Middle East and potential risks in some regions.

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By Anh Minh   January 5, 2020 | 02:42 pm GMT+7 VnExpress

State power utility EVN will buy around 1.5 billion kWh of electricity a year from Laos for two years starting in 2021.

Under contracts it signed on Saturday, Vietnam Electricity (EVN) will buy over 596 million kWh a year from two hydropower plants belonging to Phongsubthavy Group and 632 million kWh from two plants belonging to Chealun Sekong Group from 2022.

From 2021 it will start buying 263 million kWh annually from another plant belonging to the latter company.

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DEC 18, 2019 / 10:09 Anh Hong

The Hanoitimes – Local authorities are trialing ways to prevent multinationals from structuring affairs in order to divert profits to low tax jurisdictions.

Tax authorities are stepping up efforts to deal with possible tax avoidance or evasion by foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) to ensure that they pay the tax due in Vietnam.

The revenue loss associated with tax issues was equal to 1% of Vietnam’s GDP.

Tax Departments of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have recently revealed that thousands of FIEs are failing to comply with tax regulations and the tax authorities are investing the issue to make public the list of violating enterprises.

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Việc di dời các cây xăng này ra khỏi nội đô, nhất là những cây xăng sát khu dân cư đã được UBND TP.Hà Nội xem xét từ năm 2013, sau vụ cháy nghiêm trọng cây xăng Trần Hưng Đạo

Nghe nội dung chi tiết tại đây:

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A halt to investment in new coal-fired power plants is required to check the trend of increasing coal consumption, a report warns.

The report, released on Monday by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in collaboration with Denmark’s Energy Agency, said the country needs early action to reduce future coal demand, which could include taxation on the use of coal or limits on new coal-based power generation.

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As chair of ASEAN and with a seat on the UN Security Council, Hanoi has a chance to turn regional attention its way.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s raising of the ASEAN gavel last month signalled not only Vietnam’s commencement as chair of the regional grouping, but also the start of a critically definitive period for its foreign policy in the South China Sea.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it had issued a final order imposing duties of up to 456% on certain steel products from South Korea or Taiwan that are shipped to Vietnam for minor processing and then exported to the United States.

The agency said in a statement that it had found corrosion-resistant steel products and cold-rolled steel produced in Vietnam using substrate of South Korean or Taiwanese origin had circumvented U.S. anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties.

by Helen Huynh December 12, 2019

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung urged ministries, agencies and 28 coastal localities to make more drastic efforts to terminate violations of Vietnamese fishing boats in international waters within the next six months.

Dung stressed the point while chairing a meeting of the National Steering Committee on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing on Tuesday.

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AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

• Resilience of agricultural systems facing increased salinity intrusion in deltaic coastal areas of Vietnam.
• Conservation of mangroves through certified organic shrimp production: are farmers willing to adopt?
• How much is too much? Quantifying pesticide overuse in vegetable production in Southeast Asia.
• Economic-environmental trade-offs in marine aquaculture: The case of lobster farming in Vietnam.
• Risk management practices of small intensive shrimp farmers in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam.

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by Neoma Tran December 12, 2019

Huizhou city has turned a “ghost town” after Samsung closed its last smartphone factory in China.

Huizhou city on the north of China’s flourishing Pearl River Delta has turned into a ghost town after Samsung closed its three-decade old factory and shifted operations to Vietnam and India in October, in the first visible fallout of the ongoing trade war between China and the US. India Times reports.

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By Anh Minh   December 10, 2019 | 01:59 pm GMT+7 VnExpress

Vietnamese textile manufacturers are seeing orders decline with buyers moving to others, cheaper developing countries.

Normally, by the end of a year they would have enough orders for the whole of the following year, Nguyen Van Thoi, chairman of TNG Investment and Trading JSC, which makes garments, said.

But this year many businesses have said they do not have enough orders for 2020, with some reporting a 20 percent drop in orders from last year. Besides, many have not signed long-term contracts for products, only monthly or quarterly, he said.

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By Minh Nga   December 10, 2019 | 07:48 am GMT+7 VNExpress

Vietnam is one of six countries most affected by climate change between 1999 and 2018, according to survey results released this week.

The Global Climate Risk Index, published by the German environmental think tank Germanwatch, ranked Vietnam sixth among countries hit hardest by extreme weather events in that period, with its Climate Risk Index (CRI) at 29.83.

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Ngoc Thuy

The Hanoitimes – Vietnam’s trade turnover reached US$473.73 billion in the January – November period, of which its exports amounted to US241.42 billion, up 7.8% year-on-year, and imports totaled US$232.31 billion, up 7.4%.

Vietnam reported an estimated trade surplus of US$100 million in November, resulting in a trade surplus of US$9.1 billion in the first eleven months of this year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has said in a monthly report.

Data: GSO. Chart: Ngoc Thuy.

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