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Viet Nam spends nearly $500 million to import pesticides, about 80 per cent of the 120,000-130,000 tonnes used annually nationwide. The new generation of pesticides were less toxic than their predecessors. “They are safer for users and more friendly to the environment.” During the first half of this year, imports of pesticides and raw materials [...]
Students are keen to study economics and IT, but increasingly less interested in fields like mathematics and the sciences, leading professors to worry about Vietnam’s future technological strength. “When our faculty was divided into mathematics and information technology (IT), only four students remained to study math,” Associate Professor Dang Duc Trong at the HCM …
Miss Venezuela was crowned the 2009 Miss Universe in Sunday night’s pageant held in Bahamas, according to reports reaching here. Miss Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez smiles on stage after winning the Miss Universe 2009 annual pageant held at Atlantis on Paradise Island in the Bahamas August 23, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Stefania Fernandez, 18-year-old, became the 58th [...]
Dr. Le Duc Thuy, the Chairman of Vietnam’s Finance and Monetary Policy Oversight Committee, advocates continued but more narrowly focused demand stimulus for some time into 2010. Meanwhile, the Vietnam representative of the ADB, Ayumi Konishi, said that if the Government opts for a ‘second stimulus package,’ it should be reduced in scope and more [...]
Vietnam will open its second general consulate in Houston city, Texas this year. VietNamNet Bridge – Le Dung, former head of the Information and Press Department and former spokesman of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry, has been appointed as the head of Vietnam’s new consulate general in Houston, Texas, USA. Dung has come to Texas with [...]
Hoang Ho Khanh Van won the first prize for violinists in the U-13 category. A group of students from the Hanoi Conservatory of Music have returned from an international music contest in Jakarta, Indonesia with four first, one second and two third prizes. The music competition in Jakarta, which ran from August 7th-15th, was the [...]
Though social institutions and families have made great efforts to help HIV-infected children integrate into society, they still have been unable to entirely remove the barrier of discrimination which has been keeping many students away from public schools. At 9 am on August 17, the managing board of An Nhon Dong Primary School in …
The Ministry of Justice has “whistled down” a Transportation Ministry draft decree that proposes to double fines on road traffic violators in Hanoi and HCM City. Many young people in Hanoi don’t wear helmets when riding motorbikes. At the urging of Hanoi and HCM City, the Transporation Ministry has proposed to allow Vietnam’s two largest [...]
Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) will be allowed to purchase real estate in their own names from September 1, 2009. However, experts doubt the new policy will cause any immediate changes in the real estate market. Ownership transfer transactions will increase Two months ago, Luong’s relative in Germany asked her to help buy another apartment on [...]
Ministries and local administrations have been told to reduce paperwork by at least 30 percent. Project 30 will cut down unnecessary administrative formalities. Cutting down on ’baby permits’ to facilitate business Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged government offices to strictly implement Project 30, a Government program to simplify official paperwork between 2007 and [...]