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The Vietnamese entrant at Miss Universe 2009 will bring a special ao dai to the Bahamas tomorrow, August 1. She will fly to the Bahamas on a night flight, which takes off at 11.30. A representative of the Hoan Vu company and Yen’s manager, Duong Truong Thien Ly, will go to the Bahamas in mid-August [...]
The information about the discovery of the first flu outbreak at a school has worried management boards of many schools in Hanoi, who are considering delaying the opening of the new school year. The school that was the site of the wide-scale outbreak is Lomonosov High School in My Dinh new urban area. A male [...]
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai agreed to apply economic solutions to curb traffic jams in Hanoi and HCM City at a meeting on July 28. The Deputy PM agreed with Hanoi and HCM City’s solutions to curb traffics jams and emphasised the need to research, design and apply economic methods to restrict the volume [...]
Japan has announced it will grant urgent loans worth around $3 billion for Asian economies to deal with economic crisis, including $150-200 million for Vietnam. The Japanese government plans to lend Vietnam between $150 and 200 million to support its economic stimulus package. Nguyen Xuan Tien, vice chief of the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s [...]
Vietnam-made goods are being threatened by low-cost, low-quality, unsafe goods. This was heard at a workshop on Vietnamese consumers and Vietnam-made goods on July 30 in Da Nang city. 2/3 of consumers favour imports Dr Dinh Thi My Loan, Deputy Chairman of the Vietnam Retailers’ Association, cited the latest statistics released by a market survey [...]
At least 12 Vietnamese documentary filmmakers will be financed by Discovery channel to produce documentaries about urbanisation in Vietnam. “Look to Vietnam” is a documentary filmmaking contest organised by Discovery Asia channel for Vietnamese filmmakers. Contestants will have a hand in drafting the contents of a 30-minute documentary about urbanisation in Vietnam. Discovery will choose [...]
Two first-grade students attend class at Nguyen Binh Khiem Primary School, Ho Chi Minh City, in March. Ho Chi Minh City parents say a cut in full-day primary school classes will leave them with no way to supervise their kids for half the day. Parents say family life is being disrupted as Ho Chi Minh [...]
Farmers growing clean vegetables on a farm in Hai Phong. In Vietnam, only around 8 percent of vegetable farms grow clean vegetables, with the rest plagued by chemical and other contamination. Vegetables are grown on 722,000 hectares in Vietnam but only 8-8.5 percent has “clean” vegetables, the Cultivation Department officials told a conference on producing [...]
While Vietnam-grown fruit producers are still trying to establish brand recognition on the domestic market, fruit from Thailand is making remarkable inroads. Fruit imports are seizing high ground in the Vietnamese domestic market. Boxes of fruit from Thailand or China can be seen everywhere in Ho Chi Minh City, from the Binh Đien and Tam [...]
Japan has announced it will grant urgent loans worth around $3 billion for Asian economies to deal with economic crisis, including $150-200 million for Vietnam. The Japanese government plans to lend Vietnam between $150 and 200 million to support its economic stimulus package. Nguyen Xuan Tien, vice chief of the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s [...]