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Dengue fever killed another child in Soc Trang Province on July 9 as health officials warned poor preparation will increase chances of outbreaks later this year. More than 2,500 people in Kien Giang Province have contracted dengue fever so far, six of whom have died. The nine-year-old died at the province’s general hospital, said Truong [...]
he National Assembly has accepted lowering the targeted export growth rate from 13 percent to the low level of 3 percent for this year. However, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) still thinks that the modest growth rate will be a difficult task. According to the ministry, export turnover for 2009 will have to [...]
Petrol distributors will have the power of raising or lowering retail petrol prices in accordance with the world’s prices without having to ask for permission from the Ministries of Finance and Industry and Trade. The state will only intervene if it feels things have gotten out of control. This is the major change in the [...]
Called the photographer of young girls and flowers, Xuan Chinh has won many photographic awards at home and abroad. Through his lens, Hanoi’s landscapes appear beautiful and romantic. Girl and lotuses Rice flowers Summer night Loc vung tree Spring peach flowers Hanoi sunset Hanoi’s sua flower season Sunset on West Lake Red-leaf tropical almond The [...]
A scene from Deserted Valley. Some of the famous films of Vietnam cinematography will be screened at the Hanoi Cinematheque, 22A Hai Ba Trung from now until August. The programme entitled ‘Vietnam on Screen’ aims to introduce Hanoi cinema fans famous films of Vietnam such as ‘Bao Gio Cho Den Thang 10’ (When the Tenth [...]
Vietnamese people are possessed of an inherent fondness for learning. They are also known as people of great compassion. Therefore, it is not a surprising at all to hear stories about a girl willing to starve so she could take the university entrance exam and about a village that came together to assist poor students. [...]
Nearly 600,000 students across the country today, July 9, are sitting for the second round of the university entrance exams. The first exams were for A group (mathematics, physics, chemistry) students; the second exams are for B (mathematics, chemistry, biology), C (literature, history, geography), D (mathematics, literature and foreign languages) and V groups (3 …
More efforts to reduce the huge volume of dust around construction sites are being made by authorities in the capital, who are also working to reduce exhaust pollution. Streetsweepers operate in Ha Noi’s Cau Giay street, under a campaign initiated by the city People’s Committee. The increased effort, part of a campaign initiated by the [...]
After Mekostem, which opened in February 2009, the second stem-cell bank named Mamprotech Vietnam is scheduled to open in late 2009 in HCM City. Stem-cell research at a laboratory. Invested in by Mamprotech Vietnam, a private company, the stem-cell bank is located in the HCM City Hi-tech Park. The project’s manager Nguyen Quang Duc told VietNamNet [...]
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) said it would draft a decree to regulate operational requirements and procedures for firms providing IT services. Viet Nam currently has about 10,000 firms licensed to provide IT services; however, only about a third are operating. There is currently a lack of guidelines for implementing existing IT laws; [...]