Ho Chi Minh City People’s Procuracy on October 18 sentenced Huynh Ngoc Si, former director of the Japan-funded East-West Highway project to life imprisonment. LookAtVietnam – Ho Chi Minh City People’s Procuracy on October 18 sentenced Huynh Ngoc Si, former deputy director of the HCM City Transport Department and director of the Japan-funded East-West Highway [...]
19.4 percent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) reportedly disappeared from the market in 2009. LookAtVietnam – 19.4 percent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) reportedly disappeared from the market in 2009. However, experts believe that this should not be seen as bad news, but rather as a temporary “strategic withdrawal” to deal with the [...]
LookAtVietnam – Daniel Wu, Hong Kong movie director, actor and producer, talked with Vietnamese audience at the Hanoi Opera House last night, October 18. Missing the opening ceremony of the Vietnam International Film Festival on October 17, he arrived in Hanoi on October 18 afternoon and met with Vietnamese audience after a free show of [...]
LookAtVietnam – Around 5,000 people stood along Ngoc Thuy dike to witness “crazy” minutes of artist Dao Anh Khanh and his co-workers in the “Tree of Life” show on October 15. The Tree of Life installation artwork in the daylight. The VND2 billion dong ($100,000) project, which had been prepared for ten years, lasted three [...]
LookAtVietnam – The plateau was recognized by the UNESCO as one of the 77 geological parks in the world and the second in Southeast Asia on October 3. The park covers four districts of Meo Vac, Dong Van, Yen Minh and Quan Ba, totaling over 2,300sq.km, with nearly 250,000 residents. Up to 80 percent of [...]
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam welcomed nearly four million foreign arrivals between January and September of 2010. This number is a huge increase compared to previous years: up 34.2 percent from last year’s figure, according to statistics from the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). Of the 4 million tourists, around 37,500 traveled by sea, an increase [...]
Hanoi photos on display in France; Cuban dancers to perform in Vietnam; Vietnamese folk songs played in Berlin; French magazine raises Hanoi’s charm; Venezuela Culture week opens in Hanoi Hanoi photos on display in France A photographic exhibition about Hanoi opened at the headquarters of the Vietnamese People’s Association in Paris, France on October 18. [...]
Japan to construct plant for industrial waste in capital; Polluters in Tay Ninh face shutdown; Waste treatment areas to be built in Delta. Japan to construct plant for industrial waste in capital. Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Org-anisation (NEDO) will help fund and build an industrial waste treatment system in Ha Noi that [...]
Not only gold traders had to pay heavy prices for their unreasonable investment decisions, but many other people have also suffered from “the dance of the gold prices”.LookAtVietnam – Not only gold traders had to pay heavy prices for their unreasonable investment decisions, which caused constant price fluctuation in the recent days, but many other [...]
