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Having losses, bosses rush to psychiatric treatment

VietNamNet Bridge - "I’ve never seen patients with psychiatric disorders and mental illness due to business as much as this year," said doctor Le Hieu, from the Cho Quan Mental Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

Ministry to track mobile users

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information has sent a letter to mobile phone operators in a move to force them to become more transparent.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 13/11

Rice farmers are short of storage; ‘Future city’ to be built in Quang Ninh; Banking system health declining; NA wants gold market stability; Petrolimex salaries soar even as losses mount; Credit growth on the right track

MIC determines to define telecom service production cost to protect “small fish”

MIC has released a document guiding the method to define the production costs of telecom services. This aims to prevent the unhealthy competition which may kill the small networks on the market.

Tax agencies cast doubtful eyes on Metro Cash & Carry and Coca-Cola

Reporting repeated losses, but still scaling up business, Metro Cash & Carry, a distributor, and Coca-Cola, a drink manufacturer, have raised doubts that they are conducting the transfer pricing.

Students beat teachers – a signal of morals degrading?

Local newspapers have repeatedly reported the serious cases of students beating teachers.

Do Nhuan’s Co Sao returns to capital

 VietNamNet Bridge – Co Sao (Ms. Sao), Vietnam’s first opera by late musician Do Nhuan in 1965 returns to the stage on November 24-25 at 8 p.m. at the Opera House in Hanoi to mark his 90th birthday

Land should not be revoked for private projects

One of the weaknesses of the current Land Law of Vietnam is that the state has the right to revoke land for private projects, not only projects related to the national interest as the 1992 Constitution requires, said an UNDP expert.

Ninh Thuan’s delightful savory banh can

 VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors to the southcentral province of Ninh Thuan should take the opportunity to taste banh can, a local specialty made from rice flour served with egg and seafood.

Ha Noi film festival attracts 14 entries

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Cinematography Department announced on Thursday the list of 14 films to compete at the second Ha Noi International Film Festival (Haniff) to be held from November 25 to 29.

Recital piano night in town

 VietNamNet Bridge – Recital by Nhat Quy and Tien Khai will take place at HCMC Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du Street in District 1 at 8 p.m. on Wednesday.

“Press Week” for foreign reporters in HCM City

VietNamNet Bridge – Each two years, HCM City will hold an event called the “Press Week” to provide information to foreign journalists.

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 12/11

  Campaign to raise awareness of traffic laws; Requiem commemorates traffic accident victims; Nigerian man arrested for trafficking drugs; Suspected heroin smugglers arrested

“Fading Season” by Nguyen Quoc Dung

VietNamNet Bridge – The painter and photographer from Hanoi brings the romantic beauty of ao dai to Saigon in his latest photo exhibition – “Fading Season”.

Canadian study supports "obesity paradox"

 Canadian researchers have found that among patients admitted to hospital with pneumonia, those who were obese had a higher likelihood of surviving than who were of normal weight.

Hanoi springs into action

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new page was turned in the history of Vietnamese sports on Thursday when Ha Noi won the right to host Asia's biggest sports festival, the Asian Games (ASIAD), in 2019.

Danang: 111 officials wrongly use state houses

VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of Da Nang city have discovered 111 officials and state employees who were allocated with apartments for use but they sold or rented for profit.

Polluting firms in Dong Nai fail to clean up their act

 VietNamNet Bridge – A large number of enterprises previously reprimanded for polluting the environment in southern Dong Nai Province have continues to use substandard waste treatment systems,

Fowl farmers plan to raise anti-dumping lawsuit against chicken imports

Hundreds of livestock households in the southern region have been on tenterhooks, because they still don’t know if the outsourcing contracts signed with foreign invested enterprises would be extended.

German-Vietnamese wins Falling Walls Lab award

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Kim Mai Thi, a German-Vietnamese woman working on a doctorate degree at the RWTH Aachen University has won third prize in the final stage of the Falling Walls Lab 2012 in Berlin.