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Vietnam’s public universities have not paid attention to building and developing their ‘brand names’ because the number of applicants has always been higher than the number of seats. Now they must compete for the best students with universities abroad. Vietnam’s universities don’t know who they are Vietnam’s public universities have not paid attention to building [...]
By April 1, 2009, Vietnam had 85.789 million people, of which 49.5 percent were men and 50.5 percent women. Vietnam is the third most-populated country in Southeast Asia and 13th in the world, announced the General Statistics Office’s chief Nguyen Duc Hoa on August 13. According to the General Statistics Department, in the last ten [...]
Though the State Bank of Vietnam has sounded the alarm about overheating real estate credit, Tuoi Tre reports that commercial banks in HCM City continue to pour trillions of dong into real estate projects. On July 23, Sacomreal, the real estate arm of SacomBank, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Lien Viet Bank. Lien Viet [...]
The country’s largest city presently has 78,000 government staffs, 2000 more than the government-permitted level. Local departments have suggested cutting 851 employees. According to the HCM City Department of Home Affairs, nine of 43 departments and 13 districts have finalised their lists of government employees who would be fired, including 58 people from departments and [...]
Leaders of Mexico, Canada and the United States, who have just wrapped up a two-day summit here, said Monday that they had reached some consensus and agreements on cooperation on environment, trade, immigration and some other things, and discussed the post-coup situation in Hondurus. Canada’s Prime Minister Harper, Mexico’s President Calderon and U.S. President Obama [...]
The Hanoi Environmental Protection Bureau’s chief Nguyen Van Luong told VietNamNet that three out of five rubbish dumps in Hanoi are nearly full. The Nam Son rubbish dump in Soc Son district, Hanoi. Luong said that after the capital city’s expansion last August, the total rubbish volume discharged a day is around 5000 tonnes, including [...]
The Ministry of Education and Training will award full scholarships to study abroad for the first time. The ministry would also grant scholarships to students with top marks in each of the categories for fields of study categorised as A, B, C, D and V. Eligible students must have scored a perfect 30/30 in their [...]
Nineteen dancing band and five female teens participated in the northern final round of the Teenage Dance competition in Hanoi in the evening of August 8. VNE captures the contest: The 8xCrew The Big Love Kul, which won the Teen Rank award. The Candy Crew The Cun Cun troupe The Fantastic Crew, which entered the [...]
Nineteen dancing band and five female teens participated in the northern final round of the Teenage Dance competition in Hanoi in the evening of August 8. VNE captures the contest: The 8xCrew The Big Love Kul, which won the Teen Rank award. The Candy Crew The Cun Cun troupe The Fantastic Crew, which entered the [...]
The municipal Department of Health will carry out inspections of all pharmacies to check the pricing and quality of the and-viral drug Tamiflu next week, according to officials. The Ministry of Health said more than 20 additional A/H1N1 flu cases were reported on August 10, lifting the nation’s total to 1,178, with one fatality. (Photo: VNN) Pham [...]