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Visitors look at exhibits in the display hall. An art exhibit to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the implementation of President Ho Chi Minh’s testament opened in Ha Noi last Friday. Organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the exhibit features the best 600 photos and paintings collected from the movement Studying and [...]
Vietnamese entrants at recent international beauty contests have been criticised for poor performance because they didn’t win any titles. But is it fair to blame them? Vo Hoang Yen at the Miss Universe 2009 in Bahamas. After Vo Hoang Yen left Miss Universe 2009 without any title and the same for Thai Ha at the [...]
Vietnam’s top striker Cong Vinh has scored two goals for Leixoes but he has not been named a starter yet. In his first match in the jersey of Leixoes several days ago, Cong Vinh scored one goal in the match against Padroense. He had one more goal in another friendly match against Custoias on …
The ancient city of Hoi An, a world cultural heritage, will organise the Day without Nylon Bags – Nature Day on September 9, 2009. On this day, the city encourages visitors and locals to not use nylon bags. Volunteers will also travel around the city to collect waste nylon bags and deliver 20,000 paper bags [...]
American General Motors (GM) and China’s state-owned automaker FAW Group Corp. (FAW) announced Sunday a two billion yuan (about 293 million U.S. dollars) joint venture to make light-duty trucks and vans. The General Motors logo is seen outside its headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan August 25, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) “Our new joint [...]
School leaders have been threatened by the Hanoi Education and Training Department that they will be strictly punished if they collect fees and charges that do not comply with current regulations. Meanwhile, schools have complained that they do not have enough money to upgrade material facilities and improve teaching quality. How much is enough to [...]
Some Vietnamese workers are really angry that all they got from going to Russia to work was beatings and harassment. Vihacoop’s representatives meet with 39 workers at the head office of the Department of Overseas Labor Affairs. At times when they have been frustrated beyond endurance by the inability of local authorities to satisfy a [...]
The Vietnamese Defence Ministry on August 29 announced it would set up an additional naval unit to protect Vietnam’s southern continental shelf from Binh Thuan to Bac Lieu provinces. The unit will be based in Nhon Trach, Dong Nai province. The new naval unit will be responsible for managing and protecting Vietnam’s sovereignty over the [...]
The detection of an H1N1 virus in turkeys in Chile raises concern that poultry farms elsewhere in the world could also become infected with the pandemic flu virus currently circulating in humans, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said on Thursday. Handout image shows a worker processing turkeys a turkey plant [...]
Only 30 percent of factories in the Mekong Delta have wastewater treatment systems. If Vietnam’s rich Mekong Delta area builds dikes to hold back the sea, wastewater could pose an even bigger threat to its prosperity. Professor Dao Cong Tien, former head of the HCM City Economics University, says that if the sea level rises [...]