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Last Updated: Saturday, 17 May, 2008, 20:14 (GMT+7)

VN designer working on ao dai for Miss Universe

LookAtVietnam Bridge – Vo Viet Chung has signed a contract with the Miss Universe 2008 pageant organising board to design ao dai for 85 competitors. The ao dai that Chung has nurtured for a long time will go to the stage on world-wide beauties in Nha Trang this July.

POLITICS
VAT tops talks at National Assembly

LookAtVietnam BridgeThe National Assembly discussed ways to collect tax from goods and services that are not included in the Value Added Tax Law yesterday. They also discussed lowering the Corporate Income Tax from 28 to 25% to foster domestic competitiveness and foreign investment.

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Vietnam, Hungary cooperation thrives
Resonance of inflation and speculation must be avoided
Symposium on Buddhist response to global issues
Japanese parliamentarians pledge help to Vietnam
BUSINESS
Property developers find it tough during correction

LookAtVietnam Bridge - Property developers are facing high inflation, tightening monetary policy and decreasing housing prices. Vu Quang Hoi, president of Bitexco, talked about the market and the strategies needed to survive.

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Agriculture ensures social security
IPO policies should be reconsidered: expert
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 17/5
Credit stops growing
INTERNATIONAL
Bush presses Riyadh on oil but no concrete promises secured

Saudi Arabia on Friday gave no concrete promises to visiting U.S. President George W. Bush who is in the oil-rich kingdom to press for an immediate increase in its oil production to help tame record oil prices.

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Bush pledges unbreakable bond with Israel
Myanmar cyclone death toll rises to 43,318
Sichuan earthquake death toll exceeds 21,500
U.S. lists polar bear as threatened species
SOCIAL
Stuck in the middle

LookAtVietnam Bridge - The chronic congestion on the streets of Hanoi won’t be cleared up anytime soon. So what can be done to make life easier for commuters in the meantime?

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Court verdicts for 2005-2006 to be made public
SOCIAL IN BRIEF 17/5
UN Day of Vesak 2008 wraps up
Vesak conference issues Hanoi declaration
EDUCATION
More child-friendly schools

LookAtVietnam BridgeVietnam will expand UNICEF’s "Friendlier School" model across the nation. The concept, which has already been applied experimentally, has been found to improve educational quality and help students enjoy studying, said Nguyen Thien Nhan,

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Vietnam MBA gets int’l quality status
Afraid of quake, VN’s students in China want to come home
Students to be learned about biodiversity
2.2mil to sit for university entrance exams
SCI-TECH
US experts to research Vietnamese’s anti-H5N1 ability

LookAtVietnam Bridge – As of October 2008, American experts will conduct wide-scale research in Vietnam on antibodies countering H5N1 that may exist in Vietnamese people’s bodies.

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Japan, Vietnam ink nuclear power deal
HT Mobile granted licence to provide GSM technology
Denmark marches into Vietnam’s software sector
20 magnetic storms to hit Vietnam this year
LIFESTYLE
On the mountain tops

LookAtVietnam Bridge - The Ha Nhi people’s houses are called trinh tuong and they are built to last in the harshest of mountainous habitats.

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Vietnamese photographer honored at Italian contest
Miss Vietnam 2008 pageant needs good questions
VN designer working on ao dai for Miss Universe
US band Speechwriters to have shows in Hanoi
TRAVEL
Beauty and the beach

LookAtVietnam Bridge - Lang Co is a quiet but breathtaking beach that so far has avoided the tourist boom, but for how long can this beach stay off the beaten track?

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The great Escape
Five horses simmer in one pot
Moonlit night in Nha Trang Bay
Tourism village to exhibit culture of all 54 peoples
SPORTS
Vietnam Chess Federation cooperates with IT group

LookAtVietnam Bridge – The Vietnam Chess Federation on May 16 signed an agreement with FPT, under which the two sides will co-organise an annual chess event, namely FPT World Great Master Star tournament for International Great Masters.

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Linh, Cuong paddle away to doubles victory
Vietnam cycling introduces player transfer regulations
Hanoi women sprinters eye Asian Grand Prix medals
VFF chastises club, suspends referee
Forex policy as fickle as weather

LookAtVietnam Bridge – While the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) affirms that the foreign currency market has been stabilized, commercial banks still complain that they cannot buy dollars and the central bank has to put billions of dollars into circulation.

Where to buy electricity? It’s the right of EVN

Nuclear power is on the horizon


LIFE IN VIETNAM

What’s On May 12 - 18

LookAtVietnam Bridge - Weekly exhibition, performance, cinema and dining out information at your fingertips. Plus a list of local festival of the month: time, locations and attraction.

The complex minimalism of Le Thiet Cuong
What’s On May 5 - 11
THE GOOD LIFE

Technophobe: Tape to PC conundrums

TGL – Technology is advancing at a great rate of knots, and getting closer to being an old fogey, my music is getting perilously close to being left in the dark ages.

The new black
The stix: Bat Trang

PHOTOGALLERY
United Nations Vesak Celebrations on the opening day
Penetrating Pac Ta gold mine
Buddha Day celebration in Bac Ninh