Lookatvietnam – Residents of Ha Noi and HCM City flocked to pagodas en masse to pray for good luck and happiness on the first days of Lunar New Year despite chilling temperatures. Fireworks light up the sky at Nhan Mountain in the province of Phu Yen on New Year’s Eve. Women perform in the Spring [...]
Lookatvietnam – Only about 30 to 45 per cent of Viet Nam’s urban zones are the result of detailed planning, a construction ministry survey shows.And rapid expansion and complex planning procedures are likely to ensure that the rate will not quickly improve.The survey shows that in major cities such as Ha Noi, Hai Phong and [...]
Pilgrims and tourists flock to Huong (Perfume) Pagoda every year to attend the nation’s most elaborate festival to welcome the Lunar New Year. Pilgrims flock to Huong Pagoda. This year the traffic on the Yen Stream leading to the main complex of pagodas will be kept in order, according to authorities. Lookatvietnam – Pilgrims and [...]
Workers of Minh Phu Seafood Joint Stock Co sort shrimp for export. Lookatvietnam – Business leaders discuss how the global economic downturn will effect enterprises in 2009.Dang Van Thanh, chairman of Sacombank:The tightened monetary policy starting in the middle of last year, as well as the global financial turmoil, affected Vietnamese enterprises, and Sacombank in [...]
Le Guide du Routard Viet Nam 2009 (The Guide of the Traveller Viet Nam) – an updated, French travel guide from the publishers of world-renowned guide books, is hot off the press. Lookatvietnam – Le Guide du Routard Viet Nam 2009 (The Guide of the Traveller Viet Nam) – an updated, French travel guide from [...]
Cruise ship passengers enjoy Ha Long visit during Tet; Row your own sampan at Mekong Delta’s Gao Giong Park; Chinese visitors keep northern border gates busy on first day of lunar year; HCM City receives fewer visitors over Tet as tour prices rise Cruise ship passengers enjoy Ha Long visit during TetThree cruise ships carrying [...]
Lookatvietnam – This is a statement made by the two countries in a joint communiqué on Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov’s official visit to Vietnam from Jan. 29-31.President Georgi Parvanov and his wife’s visit was made at the invitation of Vietnamese State President Nguyen Minh Triet.Speaking at the welcome ceremony for the Bulgarian President and his [...]
Jumping from roof tops, hanging on high trees, riding motorbikes at high speed are activities that members of the Hong Bang University club of stuntmen in HCM City often do in movies. (Source: VNE)
Retail banking in Vietnam is about to undergo a transformation as major international financiers seek more and yet more of the Vietnamese market. And not surprisingly in a country where the average age is 25, the new arrivals are likely to bet on youth. Vietnam ’s young adults-from 21 to 29- are twice as likely [...]
President Barack Obama signs the Middle Class Working Families Task Force executive order in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 30, 2009. President Barack Obama promised on Saturday to help lower Americans’ mortgage costs with a new plan, coming soon, that would revive the financial system and “get credit flowing again.” [...]
