Vietnam rice exports soar

Vietnam could export 3.5 million tonnes of rice in the first half of this year. — PHOTO: REUTERS

HANOI – VIETNAM could export 3.5 million tonnes of rice in the first half of this year, a state-run newspaper reported on Wednesday, meaning a rise of about 43 per cent from last year, helped by a [...]

Vietnam defers income tax payments to help economy

HANOI, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Vietnam has deferred the payment of income tax, including tax due from local and foreign stock investors, for five months until the end of May, postponing an extension of taxation that should have taken effect in January.
A Finance Ministry circular obtained by Reuters on Wednesday said residents and non-residents [...]

VIETNAM: Second case of human avian influenza as bird infections spread

Photo: Tung X. Ngo

Two cases of human avian influenza cases have been confirmed in Vietnam in 2009 and avian influenza is now spreading to poultry in seven central and southern provinces

HANOI, 11 February 2009 (IRIN) – Vietnam’s second human avian influenza case this year has been confirmed by health authorities, who are scrambling [...]

Vietnam detains two in Japanese aid graft case

HANOI, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Vietnamese police have detained two former Ho Chi Minh City officials over accusations they received bribes from Japanese contractors in an affair that has led Japan to suspend official aid.
Anti-corruption police have charged the former head of the city’s East-West Highway project, Huynh Ngoc Si, with “abuse of power” and [...]

Vietnam declares bird flu emergency

HANOI, Vietnam, Feb. 11 (UPI) — The government of Vietnam has announced emergency measures to prevent the spread of a bird flu epidemic from poultry to humans.
Thousands of infected birds have been culled since Type A bird flu was discovered in seven provinces, the Vietnam news service VNS reported Wednesday.
The latest province to suffer an [...]

Vietnam police to shut down Vietnamese American’s website

Hanoi – Vietnamese police plan to soon shut down a popular website run by a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur for violating rules on copyright and political content, a police official said Wednesday. “The leaders of the company have admitted their wrongdoing,” said Dinh Huu Tan, deputy head of the Hanoi Police Department for Ideological and Cultural Security.
The [...]

Nine arrested in Vietnam for preventing chicken cull

Vietnamese police said yesterday they had arrested nine people for trying to stop chickens being taken as part of a cull aimed at preventing the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus.
The nine were arrested Saturday, a Hanoi police source said, without elaborating.
State media said about 100 residents of the capital’s Thuong Tin district had [...]

Bird flu hits five provinces in Vietnam

Hanoi – An outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus has spread to four provinces in southern Vietnam and one in the centre of the country, a government official said Monday.
Hoang Van Nam, deputy head of Vietnam’s Animal Health Department, said thousands of fowl had been infected in the Mekong Delta provinces [...]

Vietnam Delays Personal Income Tax Collection to Spur Spending

By Ta Bao Long
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Vietnam will delay the collection of personal income tax until the end of May to help stimulate spending amid the global economic crisis.
Personal income including salaries, profit from real-estate and stock transactions and other investment returns won’t be taxed until May, the government said in a statement posted [...]

Vietnam: Nine Detained Over Bird Flu Fracas

HANOI, VIETNAM: Vietnamese police detained nine people suspected of having led a mob of villagers who prevented authorities last week from destroying chickens to stop the spread of bird flu, authorities said Monday (9 Feb).
The nine villagers were detained Saturday (7 Feb) in Thuong Tin district just outside Hanoi where the brawl occurred Thursday (5 [...]