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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on New Year’s Eve he was confident Viet Nam would perform admirably when it takes over the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on January 1. The Government leader pledged to mobilise all available resources to successfully fulfil the task in his speech delivered yesterday, which [...]
The Government should step up its allocation of Government bond-sourced capital to key public projects and stop wasting money on ineffective ones, the National Assembly (NA)’s Standing Committee said at the closing meeting of its 26th session in Hanoi on December 19. The Committee heard the Government’s performance report concerning the capital sourced from Government [...]
After a 15-day trip to the Antarctic, six Vietnamese people are returning home, with an environmental protection message. Hoang Thi Minh Hong, Nguyen Lan Anh, Nguyen Phuong Anh, Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, Nguyen Thi Phuong Ngan and Le Tua are among 47 members of the international exploration group from 18 countries in the world. They [...]
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 [...]