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The American International Group Inc.(AIG) said Thursday it chose Hong Kong as the listing venue for its Asian life insurance unit American International Assurance (AIA), media reports said on Friday. The troubled but bailed-out U.S. insurer will go ahead with the up-to-10 billion U.S. dollar initial public offering. Preparations for the offering, aimed at raising [...]
Vietnam doesn’t just import cars from the US and beef from Argentina. Now it also imports apples and pears from South Korea and vegetables from Italy. That’s a part of the explanation why the trade deficit has grown sharply in the last months of the year. Our appetite for imports has become our headache. Experts [...]
Japan and the UK are the two first countries to pledge assistance to Vietnam in 2010 at the Consultative Group (CG) Meeting. PM Nguyen Tan Dung and the two co-chair people, the Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and the WB’s Director in Vietnam Victoria Kwakwa. The CM Meeting opened in Hanoi on [...]
Artist Thanh Chuong. Painter Thanh Chuong has spent several years completing works for the Thanh Chuong Residence, built from 2001-2003 as a museum of Vietnamese culture, to welcome the 1000th Thang Long – Hanoi anniversary. He has also designed a script with seven events for this special occasion. Thanh Chuong Residence is a unique cultural [...]
Overworked and underpaid – that’s why too few people are choosing to be nursery teachers leaving a serious shortage. Tuoi Tre’s reporters, who arrived in Tan Binh district’s nursery school in HCM City at 6 am, were surprised when they saw classrooms already lit. They were even more surprised when teachers, many of them with [...]
Hanoi Railway Station will begin selling train tickets for the Lunar New Year season on December 1 with South-North tickets up by 25% and North-South tickets down by as much as 50%. The price of seat tickets for the South-North route will rise from 10-25% and the price of soft bed tickets by 10% between [...]
2009 has been a really good year for bond offers by Vietnamese companies. Both Vietnamese and foreign investors have snapped them up. Vietnamese corporate bonds will be listed on Singaporean stock market Vincom Group earlier last week sold a $100 million issue of corporate bonds and listed the bonds on the Singapore Stock Exchange, becoming [...]
National Assembly deputies on November 23 approved five bills on the elderly, medical treatment, telecommunications, radio frequency and militia. Under the newly-adopted Elderly Law, Vietnamese citizens who are 60 years old and beyond are regarded as the elderly. The NA Standing Committee suggested that the law be applied to Vietnamese citizens only. If old foreigners [...]
In real life and on canvas they compliment each other, capturing the imagination with contrasting styles One dabbles in “hotly” coloured daily life while the other remembers war and soldiers in grey and black. But in real life and on canvas, they complement each other. Pop art: Veteran artist Dang Thi Duong is interested in [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Amid an endless primeval forest, an immense green field of grass appears as gently as a sleeping princess waiting for the steps of tourists to wake her up. The princess dresses up in natural green and entices tourists, archaeologists and students to come to fly kites, ride horses or elephants, walk for [...]