The annual Vieng Market Festival takes place on the eighth day of the first lunar month, when people have just finished celebrating the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. Held in Vu Ban district in the northern province of Nam Dinh, the market is open throughout the year, but it is the busiest on [...]
LookAtVietnam – Hundreds of antiques with dragons are now on display at the National History Museum in Hanoi. Dragon on a stone pole of the Ly Dynasty, 11th-13th centuries. Dragon on timber doors of the Tran Dynasty, 13th-14th centuries. Dragon on a lamp stand of the Mac Dynasty (1580). Dragon on an amulet of the [...]
LookAtVietnam – Hundreds of antiques with dragons are now on display at the National History Museum in Hanoi. Dragon on a stone pole of the Ly Dynasty, 11th-13th centuries. Dragon on timber doors of the Tran Dynasty, 13th-14th centuries. Dragon on a lamp stand of the Mac Dynasty (1580). Dragon on an amulet of the [...]
Finance Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has expressed his belief that the stock market will enjoy growth in the year of the dragon. While opening the first session of the Hanoi Stock Exchange on January 30, he said the Ministry of Finance (MoF) will urge the State Security Commission (SSC) to coordinate closely with related agencies [...]
Foreigners who are eligible for residency in Vietnam can look forward to a shorter processing time for residency permit applications. Foreigners whose spouse, children or parents are Vietnamese residents are eligible for a residency permit, which will now take a maximum of four months to process instead of the previous six months. In special cases [...]
Light fines for working illegally in Vietnam have not been a deterrent to preventing the increasing number of illegal foreign workers in the country, according to the Employment Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affair (MOLISA). According to the Government’s Decree 47, current fines range between VND15 million and VND20 million (US$720-960). [...]
LookAtVietnam – While some foreigners left Vietnam for romantic beaches in Thailand or Bali during the lunar New Year holiday, many stayed in the country to welcome the traditional Tet. Mark Conroy, representative of East Meet West in Da Nang. Mark Conroy, 65, representative of East Meet West in the central city of Da Nang, [...]
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s stocks are now too cheap and too attractive – this is the comment of “Why you should invest in Vietnam”, an article published on Forbes recently. Peter Cohan, the author of the article, wrote that in the visit to Singapore in January, he met an experienced investment fund manager. The manager affirmed [...]
LookAtVietnam – More and more businessmen say they have confidence on the feng shui theory and believe that the knowledge about the theory can help them more prosper in doing business. Feng shui theory is a kind of research which leans about the influence of wind direction, air direction, and the courses of streams to [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – President Truong Tan Sang held a working session with the leaders of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Law Universities in Hanoi on Jan. 30, on measures to improve the quality of human resource training and achieve judicial reform. President Truong Tan Sang works with Law Universities. (Source: VNA) Sang, who is [...]
