The minimum investment capital required to set up a foreign university in Viet Nam is $15 million, the Ministry of Education and Training has proposed. The Ministry is compiling a draft decree regulating cooperation with foreign partners. It’s aiming to encourage investment in Vietnam’s education at all levels, from pre-school to higher education and …
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy set December as the deadline for Iran to suspend its nuclear program and warned Iran not to make “tragic mistake” in a television interview on Wednesday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, Sept. 23, 2009. The 64th session of [...]
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Vietnamese garment exports to Japan are expected to rise 20 percent to $1 billion in 2009, thanks in part to the abolition of tariffs beginning on October 1. The business newspaper Saigon Tiep thi reports that, according to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vinatas), orders from Japan have been increasing continuously, anticipating the entry [...]
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Mr. Ralph Dustin Cantral. US and Viet Nam’s sea management agencies will sign a cooperation agreement in the next few days, said Ralph Dustin Cantral, senior advisor to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in a press conference in Hanoi on September 23. Cantral said the agreement between the NOAA and the Vietnamese [...]
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The 2009 International Dancesport Championship – Me Trang Cup will take place at the Quan Ngua Sports Palace in Hanoi on September 16-19. Competition programme includes the National Championship, the National Cup for Dancesport Clubs and the Vietnam Open – pre-Indoor Games 3. The tournament draws the participation of more than 100 dancers of the [...]
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The Nghe Temple in Hai Phong city. Le Chan was a widowed aristocrat, who helped the Hai Ba Trung defeat the occupying Chinese forces in 39AD. No small wonder she is still honoured today. Located in An Bien ward of Hai Phong City’s Le Chan district, Nghe Temple is dedicated to Lady Le Chan – [...]
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The final round of the first Mrs. Vietnam pageant began today, September 14, in Vung Tau. The organizing board announced that seven contestants had withdrawn from the finals because of poor health or conflicts with work. These vacancies will be filled by five others who will enter the final round without having to compete in [...]
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Approximately 90 per cent of the country’s 2,790 craft villages have violated environmental protection regulations, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Environmental Police Department. A brick kiln in District 9’s Long Binh ward in HCM City belches out smoke. “Common among most of these craft villages were contributions to water, air and land pollution,” [...]
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Experts say Vietnam ought to guide more teenagers toward blue collar skills training, rather than see them waste years failing to gain admission to college. Tien Phong Daily explains why. According to the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), 400,000 students fail high school final exams every year or pass the exams but do not [...]
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Storm No. 8, Koppu, will bring heavy rains to north and central Vietnam. Meanwhile, the ninth storm of the year in Vietnam’s East Sea has appeared off the Philippine coast, reports the National Hydrometeorology Forecast Centre. Centre Director Bui Minh Tang said the new storm, called ‘Choiwan’ is at level 9 and it can reach level [...]
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