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Pianist Bich Tra. Talented pianist Bich Tra has returned to Vietnam. She will be present for two shows at the Hanoi Opera House on August 27-28. Bich Tra will play some music works by German music genius Ludwig van Beethoven with the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Le Phi Phi. Bich Tra [...]
The National Football Championship 2009 – V-League 2009 – closed on August 23 with a new champion, Da Nang. However, the championship is not the one that saw the highest number of goals or the most impressive progress. Da Nang club and the V-League 2009 Cup. The team scoring the highest number of goals: Binh [...]
The Vietnam Super Star Contest for Vietnamese girls was kicked off with a press conference in HCM City on August 25. According to the organisers, this contest is open to Vietnamese girls between the ages of 16-25. The competition will have three rounds, the qualifier round, the audition round and the final round in HCM [...]
The Mekong Delta’s Kien Luong limestone system in Kien Giang province has, says WWF, the greatest biodiversity in the world. Since 1997, Vietnamese and foreign scientists have discovered an astonishing 1068 new species of creatures in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, reports the HCM City Tropical Biology Institute. Of this number, there are 519 plants, 279 fish [...]
On August 24, a student at the HCM City Agriculture and Forestry University dumped five litres of acid onto Dang Huu Dung, 51, Deputy Dean of the Mechanics-Technology Faculty of the university. A wounded student at Thu Duc Hospital Witnesses related that while Dung was giving an English lecture to several hundred students, a young [...]
To prevent landslides on the banks of rivers and canals, HCM City needs nearly 4 trillion dong (over $220 million) to upgrade waterways. The city currently has around 980km of rivers and canals. In recent years, landslides along rivers and canals have become serious. At this moment, the city has 114 places at high risk [...]
A Ministry of Industry and Trade programme that aims to stimulate domestic consumption will start on September 1. Dr Ngo Quang Minh of the HCM National Academy of Politics and Public Administration has raised a question: will the trade promotion programme effectively stimulate demand for Vietnamese-made goods and help businesses expand production, or it …
VietNamNet Bridge –The relationship between Saigon Postel and SK Telecom, the partners in the joint venture mobile network S-Fone, appears to be on the rocks. S-Fone’s managing director, Ho Hong Son, told the online newspaper VNExpress that the terms of cooperation between Saigon Postel and SK Telecom must change. The two sides are still discussing [...]
The 8th Dep Fashion Show, the most prestigious annual fashion event in Vietnam, will take place in HCM City on August 26, with the theme “Freedom”. The show will feature four collections by Do Manh Cuong, Le Ha, Ha Truong and Tom K Nguyen. These are believed will surprise the audience with their creativeness. Do [...]
Nearly 500 youth union members in Hanoi registered to donate blood to mark Voluntary Blood Donation Day on April 7. The Ministry of Health has drawn up a draft strategy for blood donation in the 2009-15 period and is collecting public opinion about it, Dr. Nguyen Anh Tri, director of the Institute of Hematology and [...]