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The People’s Committee of Hai Phong has decided to shut down the city’s football fan club after only three months for failing to fulfill its responsibilities. Hai Phong Cement club suffered great financial losses due to its football fans’ behaviour during V-League 2008. The team was fined several times because its fans shot flares and [...]
A class in informatics for staff at the northern province of Bac Ninh’s Science and Technology Department. It is time for the country to tackle shortage of ICT workers. The time is right for Viet Nam to tackle the shortage of qualified workers in the information and communication technology sector, said Vice President of the [...]
After infecting hundreds of students from 20 schools in HCM City, the A/H1N1 influenza has spread to two other schools, the Marie Curie High School in District 3 and Luong The Vinh High School in District 1 on August 27. In Hanoi, 12 schools have reported swine flu. According to the HCM City Department of [...]
The Fighting – Long Hair Army in Mo Cay, Ben Tre in 1965. This oil on canvas was painted by veteran Huynh Phuong Dong. Some well-known artists are display their latest paintings and sculptures to mark the August Revolution and National Day, to be cetebrated early next month at an annual exhibition that opened in [...]
Singer Truong Phi Nga (left) participates in the Voices of Young People music contest, held in Ca Mau Province to celebrate the National Day. Peace, love and youth are the themes celebrated by amateur performers in a contest featuring folk and traditional music in Viet Nam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau. The Voices of Young [...]
HCM City Education and Training Department has organized recruitment campaigns twice to seek teachers for area schools. Yet some schools are rejecting teachers while others plead for more. “When we came to the education office in Binh Thanh district, we were told that district schools did not need teachers of ‘industrial techniques,’ but lacked teachers [...]
The capital will launch projects to build such dormitories for some 100,000 students next month. The capital will launch projects to build dormitories for 100,000 students next month, according to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Phi Thai Binh. More than VND600 billion (US$33 million) has been earmarked by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung [...]
With the stock market warming up, listed companies are selling treasury stocks and issuing additional shares, while equitised companies are hurrying to list shares on the bourse. In July and the first three weeks of August, the Hanoi bourse witnessed 13 companies listing shares on the bourse. A lot of listed companies registered to list [...]
Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba. Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba said that this year the Japanese government will present the biggest ever sum of official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam. “Next month, Japan and Vietnam will sign an ODA grant worth US$650 million,” he said on August 26. The Japanese Ambassador refused to [...]
Skills shortage among 10 hurdles facing companies struggling to sustain growth Software companies will experience extreme difficulty in 2009, said a report by the Viet Nam Software Association and US-based International Data Corporation (IDC). Software companies are experiencing difficulties this year with only 36 per cent of them likely to achieve sustainable growth. The report [...]