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Vietnam hikes car tax to reduce traffic congestion
The Associated Press, 30 July 2008
Vietnam will hike car registration fees to as much as 15 percent of an auto''s purchase price to try to reduce traffic congestion in big cities and curb the country''s soaring trade deficit, state media reported Wednesday. The decision bumps up the fee for vehicles with less than 10 seats to 10 percent to 15 percent of the purchase price, depending on the area, the online newspaper VnExpress said. The current registration fee is 5 percent of a vehicle''s sales price. The newspaper quoted the decree, signed by Prime Minister ***************, as saying the move aims to further restrict new car registrations, thus reducing traffic congestion in big cities.

Auto sales have surged in Vietnam in recent years amid robust economic growth. Last year, a record of more than 100,000 vehicles were sold. Auto dealers feared the new decision would hurt sales, which have been slowing recently due to increased fuel prices, soaring inflation and a slumping world economy. "Vietnam''s automobile industry is already faced with numerous difficulties because of the economic slowdown and the banks tightening on new loans," said Nguyen Hoai Anh, sales manager of a Toyota dealer in Hanoi. Anh said new cars purchased in July at his dealership were down 50 percent to 60 percent, compared with two to three months ago. He said the new registration fees will further impinge on sales.

The Ministry of Finance is also considering raising import taxes for cars in a bid to cut a record trade deficit, which stood at US$15 billion in the first seven months. In April, the government raised the car import tax to 83 percent from 70 percent. There are an estimated 1.2 million cars in the country of 86 million people.

US drug enforcement agents train Vietnamese police
DPA 32 July 2008
"Stay close to the walls, and don''t expose yourself," the American adviser told the Vietnamese officers as they advanced into a building, weapons drawn. The scene this week was reminiscent of a South Vietnamese Army training camp in the 1960s, but these Vietnamese officers were anti-narcotics police, and the adviser was an agent from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). For a week and a half, a team of DEA agents and US military medics have shown 80 Vietnamese police, customs officials and border guards the American way to conduct a drug raid: planning, entry and arrest techniques, self-defence and emergency medical care.
Communist Vietnam now has close diplomatic and trade relations with the United States, its enemy during the Vietnam War, and the country''s Ministry of Public Security seems happy to accept American help in fighting the narcotics trade.

"The drugs problem is an international problem," said Joe Boix, a square-jawed DEA firearms instructor from Phoenix, Arizona, who was leading the training. "It''s all the same no matter where you go." Vietnam is a waypoint on international narcotics-smuggling routes and has a serious heroin problem with the number of addicts particularly high in its north-west, where heroin is smuggled in from neighbouring Laos. Inside Vietnam itself, opium poppies, once grown widely, were stamped out by the government in the 1990s, according to the UN, but Laos produces a small amount of opiates each year, and nearby Burma is the world''s number two producer of heroin, after Afghanistan. In recent years, Vietnamese drug users have branched out from using heroin to ecstasy and methamphetamine although authorities said none of these synthetic drugs were produced in Vietnam. Authorities reported record drug busts, with the Cong An Nhan Dan, or People''s Police, newspaper claiming police had seized 83 kilograms of heroin and 89,000 amphetamine pills so far this year.

In the past two months, six women have been arrested in Vietnamese airports smuggling heroin to or from Australia. In May, four Chinese men and an Indonesian were caught trying to cross into China with 9 tons of hashish hidden in a shipping container full of jeans. "Our main thrust is to go after the international organizations," said Jeff Wanner, the DEA''s liaison officer in Hanoi. "This training is to help [the Vietnamese] deal with their internal problem, but we want to go after the bigger organizations, international in scope." The DEA office in Vietnam is not permitted to carry out hands-on operations, but Wanner said the office exchanges intelligence on drug activity with Vietnamese agencies. The training in Hanoi was very hands-on. In classrooms belonging to a firefighting academy, DEA agents ran through physical arrest exercises with Vietnamese officers, forcing "suspects" to lie on their stomachs, handcuffing them, then moving them to a squatting position and pushing them to their feet.

Captain Luu Duoc Cuong, a border guard from the northern province of Cao Bang, said the techniques were similar to Vietnamese ones but with a few differences.
"In America, once the suspect has surrendered, if he begins to resist, to be difficult or doesn''t listen, you can shoot him," Cuong said. "In Vietnam, if he''s surrendered but doesn''t listen, you still can''t shoot." In the parking lot, where a plywood mock-up of a house was constructed, Boix coached teams of Vietnamese agents in forcibly entering the house and then, one by one, clearing each room and arresting suspects. "Slice the pie!" Boix called out, using a term that refers to the way a pair of agents, standing at the corners of a door, visually divide the room inside as they scan for targets. Two agents drew their guns on a colleague role-playing a suspect, shouting in Vietnamese, while an interpreter translated for Boix''s benefit: "Police! Hands up!"

A moment later, shots rang out. Paint pellets splattered on plywood walls. Some minutes later, Boix reviewed the raid with his students. "In the first incident, there were two misses in very close proximity," Boix said. "We must make every shot count, so no one is injured unnecessarily and we go home safe to our families."
"It''s exciting for them to be able to actually pull the trigger and try to pretend like there are bad guys coming at them," Wanner said. "This is what we all trained for."

Vietnam Banks Face Stagnant Inflow of Depositors
VNB 30 July 2008
The flow of deposits into commercial banks is turning out more stagnant, which is blamed on negative interest rate although institutions have sought to raise interest as high as possible, bankers said. Banks in HCM City drew a total VND537.7 trillion deposits in the first half of this year, increasing 10% from early this year and averaging out at a monthly mobilization growth rate of 1.67%, the lowest rate in the past five years. Last year, the average growth rate in mobilization was 3%-4% a month. The flow is even dwindling lately, said an official with the State Bank of Vietnam''s HCM City branch, adding that July mobilization of banks in the city was estimated to increase only 0.7% against the previous month.
At a seminar on providing finance for small and medium enterprises in the city last week, Pham Huy Hung, chairman of Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank), said that public capital do not flow much to banks despite high rates. "VietinBank with three main transaction offices, 140 branches, and 165 transaction sites nationwide has widened working hours but the bank''s mobilization in the first half this year grew only 5% from late 2007, compared to annual growth of 10-15% in previous years," the bank''s chairman said. In fact, mobilization in Vietnam dong of VietinBank in January-June this year even decreased by VND354 billion, providing a difficult time in mobilization at banks, he stressed.
Hung, who also serves as chairman of the Vietnam Banks Association, said that many banks were facing the same problem as VietinBank. He explained that due to high inflation rate, many people have bought the U.S. dollars and gold as safe havens. Furthermore, many enterprises and citizens also tended to make payment transactions outside the banking system due to difficulties in obtaining bank loans in Vietnam dong. Hung cited a survey of the World Bank that 35% of total amount of money has flown out of banking system and 50% of total payment was not made via banks. An executive with the HCM City branch of Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) said that his branch had seen hundreds of billions of dong moving out in the last one month because institutional customers withdraw capital. Since early this year, the branch had no new institutional depositor because BIDV''s interest rates were lower than others, he said. In July, the branch''s mobilized fund was forecast to fall by 0.5% from the previous month.
Meanwhile, the general director of a small bank in HCM City said that in February and March mobilized funds at his bank increased by over 30% from late 2007. The growth, however, gradually decelerated and the amount of mobilization barely increased in recent months.

Just some stuff for u all 2 read, u should spend sometime to go through and if possible, read out loud coupled with enrich ur vocabulary, this would be so helpful for improving u guys'' english.

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