The Hanoi People s Procuracy on Tuesday recommended that a trial panel give deputy minister of health Cao Minh Quang a suspended sentence of 30 to 36 months over a medicine deal that caused over US$3.8 million in damages to the State budget.
The charges centre around the purchase of medicines to prevent and control the influenza A(H5N1) epidemic between the health ministry and Cửu Long Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company.
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‘I have never seen a hot air balloon I made floating in the sky before,’ says Mien (Khuong Thi Minh Nga), one of the four Vietnamese women with whom Nigerian footballer Bassley (Olegunleko Ezekiel Gbenga) lives in Lê Bảo’s
obliquely-told debut film
2021). There is very little dialogue in this film
, but the emotional longing in these lines almost perfectly encapsulates the complex struggles at the core of it.
By Phương Hà
A 9-to-5 job in an air-conditioned space with a stable income is apparently rather unappealing to many young Vietnamese, who prefer manual jobs like delivering goods or being a motorbike taxi driver, which gives them more freedom and a bigger payday.
Trần Tuấn Tú, who was born in 1990, recently quit his job as an office worker in Cầu Giấy District in Hà Nội to join the community of Grab riders around town.
His means of living is now his old Wave Alpha. A working day normally begins at 8 or 9 am, or whenever he turns on the Grab app on his mobile phone.