The Ministry of Transport recently asked Grab not to provide services, including taxi hailing services, in Thua Thien Hue, Ba Ria–Vung Tau and Lam Dong provinces. — Photo laodong.vn Following a Ministry of Transport directive asking Grab Viet Nam to stop providing car hailing services in certain provinces, the company said its services did not violate laws. Last week, the ministry asked Grab not to provide services, including taxi hailing services, in Thua Thien Hue, Ba Ria–Vung Tau and Lam Dong provinces, because they were not part of the approved pilot project for electronic passenger transport. The ministry has also asked the company to not expand its services to other provinces until there were new directives from the Prime Minister. Grab Viet Nam’s Communication Manager Nguyen Thu An said GrabTaxi was one of the services in its app and registered with the Ministry of Industry and Trade as an e-commerce platform, which was allowed nationwide and complied with Government Decree 52/2013/ND-CP regarding e-commerce. GrabTaxi was an alternative to connect passengers and taxi drivers, An said, adding that this service did not interfere in the operation, management and fares of taxi companies. Regarding GrabCar service, An said that the company only partners with eligible vehicles, which had passenger transport licences and labels provided by the transport departments of provinces and cities within the pilot project. Tran Huu Huynh, former head of the Legal Department under the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was quoted by Dan Tri online newspaper as… [Read full story]
Many cars have been found to provide Uber and Grab services in Danang City despite not being allowed by municipal authorities.The Danang City Department of Transport on August 2 said that the department won’t give the go-ahead to the pilot operation of Uber and Grab until the Ministry of Transport reviews the two-year trial operation of ride-sharing companies such as Grab and Uber and then issues the legal framework to better manage such services. Many cars have been found to provide Uber and Grab services in Danang City despite not being allowed by municipal authorities. However, according to deputy director…... [read more]
The Department of Legal Document Examin-ation, operating under the Ministry of Just-ice, confirmed that the document issued in April this year was not consistent with current regulations.Under the document, traffic police were ordered to contain incidents where individuals were seen to be filming and taking photos of traffic police on duty, ‘without permission'. The deputy director of the Road and Railway Traffic Police Department, Tran Son Ha, who signed the document, told VnExpress online newspaper that the document aimed to protect traffic police from people posing as journalists to portray officers in a negative light.Journalists had the right to film…... [read more]
SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday defended tough new terror laws under which Internet data, including websites browsed, will be retained, denying it is an invasion of privacy.The government plans to overhaul laws to make it easier to arrest and prosecute terrorists and make it an offence to travel to designated hotspots overseas without a valid reason.It has also substantially increased resources to security and intelligence agencies and wants telecommunications companies to retain metadata for up to two years."They're not invading privacy," Abbott told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation of the proposed laws which were announced in Canberra…... [read more]
Situated on Ngo Quyen Street in Nha Trang City, the Bavico Nha Trang Hotel is developed by Bach Viet Technical and Commercial Company.The building includes 25 floors, 303 rooms and a variety of services including a restaurant, event center, bar, karaoke rooms, spa and wine storage, and is located opposite to the Khanh Hoa Province Military Command Headquarters.The firm was a given permission to construct the hotel on a 4,000 square meter piece of land, which was originally zoned for defense and security. The Bavico project was approved by the 5th Military Region and the provincial People’s Committee on January 2014.In February…... [read more]
The managers of a new dump in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) say they are working hard to reduce the stench coming from the Da Phuoc garbage handling complex. Local residents say the smell is less strong than it was a month ago, only occasionally wafting across the Da Phuoc Commune of Binh Chanh District. Nguyen Quang Thach, chief engineer of the US-owned Vietnam Waste Solutions Company (VWS) complex, said a newly-installed deodorization system was working effectively. Following the complaints from nearby residents, the company set up tracking equipment to monitor wind direction and speed so it could better handle…... [read more]
