November 30, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Central Thanh Hoa Province’s Union of Informatics and Transfer Technology has successfully programmed software to help parents better control their children’s access to the Internet, reports its director Nguyen Huu Hung. The Manage Access Network (MAN) was designed to prevent access to web sites that do not suit a child’s age and development, [...]
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November 30, 2010
Police in the Northern province of Ninh Binh are investigating three people on suspicion of blackmailing local traffic police.  According to authorities, Le Xuan Hoang, Nguyen Trong Hai, and Hoang Van Cuong, all residents of the Northern province of Thanh Hoa, were arrested on November 17 for “tempting” police into accepting bribes and filming the [...]
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November 30, 2010
LookAtVietnam – A unique folk festival celebrating the rural children who look after buffalo has been revived near the central city of Da Nang for the first time in nearly 75 years. Revival: Buffalo boys enjoy folk games at a festival in honour of rural children who look after buffaloes at Phong Le Village last [...]
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November 30, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Policy makers, businesses, scientists and farmers met in HCM City yesterday, Nov 29, to discuss ways to increase farmers’ incomes. The meeting talked about developing the value chain approach in rural areas used by the International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD) to help farmers reduce poverty. At the event, [...]
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November 30, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Eight young Vietnamese pianists will be competing against 140 others at the First International Chopin Piano tournament from tomorrow, Dec 1, to Sunday in Singapore. The competition, which commemorates the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth, is being organised by the Chopin Society (Singapore) and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. The Vietnamese pianists, [...]
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November 30, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The frequency with which child abuse cases are being exposed in the country has raised public concern and elicited calls for action to prevent the recurrence of such incidents. Three-year-old Ho Thi Thuy Ngan goes to her new pre-school in Thuan Giao Commune, southern Binh Duong Province’s Thuan An District. A video clip [...]
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November 30, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese guests looking for MICE facilities overseas will be one of the focuses of Singapore in the coming years and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is looking to further tap this market segment. Fiona Loi, new area director of STB for Indochina, at a meeting with reporters in HCMC last week. (Photo: SGT) [...]
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November 30, 2010
Truong Thanh Hang celebrates after winning silver in the women's 1,500m final on November 23. Female athletes Truong Thanh Hang and Vu Thi Huong won the Vietnam’s first ever silver and bronze medals at Asian Games for track-and-field events. Southeast Asian 1,500m and 800m champion Truong Thanh Hang took the silver medal in the women’s [...]
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November 30, 2010
Le Bich Phuong beat World Champion Kobayashi Miki in the women’s 55kg Karatedo finals, on Thursday. Her victory represent’s Vietnam’s first gold medal at the Asian Games 2010 in Guangzhou, China. The Vietnamese martial artist sailed through the previous rounds before defeating her Japanese rival, Kobayashi, 4-3. Also in the Karatedo event, martial artist [...]
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November 30, 2010
LookAtVietnam – HCMC is facing a drawback in the treatment of harmful waste as the amount of hazardous waste discharged into the environment has increased rapidly while many treatment companies are lacking of competence and technologies, according to the HCMC Department of Natural Resources and Environment. An environment inspector checks garbage at a dumpsite in [...]
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