Lien Chieu Port to play key role for a sustainable Da Nang

  Wednesday, Nov 13, 2019 08:45

A corner of the Tien Sa Port. Experts says Tien Sa Port should not be enlarged because a bypass system linking the port and the logistics centre would damage Da Nang City’s architecture planning. — VNS Photos

bizhub – Speeding up the construction of the new Lien Chieu Cargo Port would help promote Da Nang as a key international logistics centre, and allow the existing Tien Sa Port to be reserved for cruise ships only.

Former general director of Tien Sa Port, Nguyen Huu Sia, made the statement at a recent workshop held to discuss changes to the city’s Master Plan proposed by Sakae Holdings and Subarna Jurong Consultants from Singapore. Tiếp tục đọc “Lien Chieu Port to play key role for a sustainable Da Nang” →

PPP regulations to be changed to serve development

VNS –  Monday, Nov 11, 2019 07:54

Part of Ring Road 2 in Ha Noi, which was built under a public private partnership. — VNA/VNS Photo Huy Hung
 More than per 76 per cent of current investment projects following public private partnerships (PPP) are in the field of transport infrastructure, but investors still feel insecure.

Of the 289 PPP investment projects, there are 220 involved in transport infrastructure, said Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Nhat attending a conference themed “Solutions to promote investment in the development of transport system structure under PPP” in the capital last week. Tiếp tục đọc “PPP regulations to be changed to serve development” →

Buying first home remains a pipe dream for young Vietnamese

By Dat Nguyen   November 1, 2019 | 11:10 am GMT+7

Buying first home remains a pipe dream for young Vietnamese

Apartment buildings seen in Hoang Mai District, Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Nhat Quang.

Surging prices and a decline in the supply of affordable apartments are making it almost impossible for young Vietnamese to buy their first home.

Pham Hoai Nam used to think that being a grown-up means having a stable job, a good salary, a beautiful girlfriend, and his own house.

Now, at age 28, he is able to check off all of those items except the last one.

“My girlfriend and I plan to get married next year, and our only major concern now is finding a place to live,” Nam, who works as an electronics salesman in Hanoi, says.

He is among many young Vietnamese in major cities who are finding that their dream of owning a home is becoming increasingly elusive as real estate prices rise faster than incomes amid a decline in affordable apartment supply.

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How a data detective exposed suspicious medical trials

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Anaesthetist John Carlisle has spotted problems in hundreds of research papers — and spurred a leading medical journal to change its practice.
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Anaesthetist John Carlisle works in a hospital in Torquay, UK, and in his spare time finds statistical errors in medical research trials.Credit: Emli Bendixen for Nature

If John Carlisle had a cat flap, scientific fraudsters might rest easier at night. Carlisle routinely rises at 4.30 a.m. to let out Wizard, the family pet. Then, unable to sleep, he reaches for his laptop and starts typing up data from published papers on clinical trials. Before his wife’s alarm clock sounds 90 minutes later, he has usually managed to fill a spreadsheet with the ages, weights and heights of hundreds of people — some of whom, he suspects, never actually existed.
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Trở lại vụ việc tại xã Đồng Tâm (huyện Mỹ Đức): Pháp luật phải được thực thi

Nguy cơ Việt Nam thành nơi tiếp tay gian lận thương mại

Anh Vũ –  THANH NIÊN

Không chỉ có Asanzo, hàng loạt vụ giả mạo xuất xứ mặt hàng từ gỗ, xe đạp, nhôm, giày dép… đã và đang bị các cơ quan chức năng xử lý, trong đó có những vụ lên tới hàng tỉ USD.

Hàng hóa xuất nhập khẩu qua cửa khẩu Thanh Thủy (tỉnh Hà Giang) /// Ảnh: Anh Vũ
Hàng hóa xuất nhập khẩu qua cửa khẩu Thanh Thủy (tỉnh Hà Giang) Ảnh: Anh Vũ
Nếu không sớm ngăn chặn, VN có nguy cơ thành trạm trung chuyển gian lận thương mại ra thế giới. Tiếp tục đọc “Nguy cơ Việt Nam thành nơi tiếp tay gian lận thương mại” →

Hanoi first metro line starts 20-day trial run

By Doan Loan   October 29, 2019 | 12:25 pm GMT+7

Hanoi first metro line starts 20-day trial run

Trains of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line are ready for a commercial test run, October 28, 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.

Hanoi’s first metro line, the Cat Linh-Ha Dong route, has begun a 20-day commercial operation run for inspection purposes.

The trial will check all aspects or the line’s operations, from functioning stations with staff on duty at operation rooms and ticket booths. Electronic signs and loudspeakers are turned on to instruct metro commuters. Six to nine trains will operate on the route.

The first metro line runs 13 kilometers from Cat Linh Station in downtown Dong Da District to the Yen Nghia Station in the southwestern Ha Dong District.

The metro had made its first trial run in September last year, but that test was supervised by Chinese experts from the Shenzhen Metro Company.

The ongoing commercial trial will be supervised by Vietnamese employees from state-owned Hanoi Metro Company Limited.

The 20-day period will verify system safety and operational capacity of all employees, which is a mandatory step in the inspection process, said a representative from the Chinese general contractor.

It has been reported several times that work on the line is 99 percent complete. The 1 percent remaining work is mainly outlook finishing.

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The interiors of the stations that the Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line runs through are completed. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy

The interiors of a station of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro route. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.

Mrs. BOT finds a way as villagers volunteer to pay

VNE – By Hoang Hanh   October 29, 2019 | 04:40 pm GMT+7

A 66-year-old widow collects very moderate toll fees for a one-km path she and her husband built on their own six years ago.

They call her Mrs. BOT, but as an endearment, not a derogatory epithet. The term, build-own-transfer, otherwise carries the connotation of many expensive toll fee stations along Vietnamese roads.

Mrs. BOT of the southernmost province of Ca Mau is a total different story.

Truong Thi Yen, 66, is at her home in Ca Mau Province, where she and her husband built a concrete road for locals for free. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Hanh.

Truong Thi Yen, 66, is at her home in Ca Mau Province, where she and her husband built a concrete road for locals for free. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Hanh.

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Những người phụ nữ dệt ước mơ từ sợi lanh

cand – 19:17 20/10/2019

Những sợi lanh tuy nhỏ bé nhưng đã giúp cuộc sống của người phụ nữ dân tộc Mông làm việc tại Hợp tác xã (HTX) dịch vụ tổng hợp nông lâm nghiệp thôn Sà Phìn A (HTX Lanh Trắng) thay đổi từng ngày, từ đó hạn chế tình trạng bạo lực gia đình, buôn bán phụ nữ qua biên giới, bảo đảm an ninh, trật tự và quyền con người.

Các chị em là thành viên HTX đang tham gia sản xuất.

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At the time of ATIGA, sugarcane is still struggling

15:02 | 24/04/2019
VCN – After a 2-year delay, from January 1, 2020, quotas on sugar imports from ASEAN will officially be removed and have an import tax rate of 0% in accordance with the commitments of the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA). However, Vietnam’s sugar industry is not really ready.
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The Sugar Association recommends importing raw sugar to refine and applying import licenses to monitor the import volume in order to ensure supply and demand at certain times.

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Foreign companies continue to lead efficiency stakes in Vietnam

vnexpress – By Hung Le   September 27, 2019 | 06:33 pm

Foreign companies continue to lead efficiency stakes in Vietnam
Women work at a garment factory in Hai Duong Province, outside Hanoi. Photo by Reuters/Kham.

A report on Vietnam’s 500 most profitable companies has found foreign enterprises have better profitability ratios than state and local private firms.

Their return on equity ratio averaged 26.4 percent compared to 24.2 percent for Vietnamese private companies and 17.6 percent for state-owned firms, according to the VNR Profit500, a listing of the 500 companies with the highest profits between July 2018 and June 2019 published Thursday. Tiếp tục đọc “Foreign companies continue to lead efficiency stakes in Vietnam” →

Putting ODA to work

vneconomictimes – 08:04, 29/09/2019 – by Nghi Do

Putting ODA to work
Photo: Viet Tuan

Vietnam is striving towards boosting the disbursement and use of ODA and concessional loans as both have become issues in recent times.

Official development assistance (ODA) and concessional loans to Vietnam are expected to fall and eventually come to an end within the next five years, resulting in a shortage of preferential long-term credit resources for investment. This requires the country develop a new approach to management and use, as ODA is considered one of the major resources for economic development, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue told a Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) conference in mid-July. Tiếp tục đọc “Putting ODA to work” →

Thu thuế với tài xế xe công nghệ, bao nhiêu là vừa?

TT – CÔNG TRUNG – ÁNH HỒNG – 24.09.2019, 10:00
TTCT – Thời gian qua đã xảy ra hàng loạt lùm xùm liên quan đến thu thuế của tài xế xe công nghệ, trong đó tập trung chủ yếu ở tài xế Grab. Nhiều tài xế cho rằng ngưỡng chịu thuế trên 100 triệu đồng/năm, không bao gồm giảm trừ gia cảnh và không trừ chi phí, chẳng hạn như tiền xăng, khấu hao xe…, theo như quy định hiện nay là bất hợp lý và cần phải điều chỉnh.
Thu thuế với tài xế xe công nghệ, bao nhiêu là vừa?
Tài xế tập trung phản đối thu thuế 60.000 đồng/ngày của Grab vào ngày 26-8 tại TP.HCM. -Ảnh: C.TRUNG

Tài xế nói thuế quá “rát”

Theo quy định hiện nay, các tài xế xe công nghệ được xem là cá nhân kinh doanh. Trong trường hợp có thu nhập từ 100 triệu đồng/năm trở xuống sẽ không phải nộp thuế. Trường hợp có thu nhập hơn 100 triệu đồng/năm trở lên sẽ phải nộp thuế trên toàn bộ doanh thu với mức thuế 4,5%, trong đó 3% là thuế giá trị gia tăng (GTGT), 1,5% là thuế thu nhập cá nhân. Nếu nhận tiền thưởng thì nộp thuế 1% trên số tiền được nhận. Tiếp tục đọc “Thu thuế với tài xế xe công nghệ, bao nhiêu là vừa?” →