Archive for March, 2012

Spain experienced its first general strike on Thursday since Mariano Rajoy won the general election on Nov. 20. The country’s labor unions called the strike in protest at the labor reforms introduced by Rajoy’s government in February and also at the wide-ranging spending cuts implemented by the new prime minister to reduce Spain’s deficit. The [...]

Google is planning an online store to sell tablet computers directly to consumers, U.S. media reported on Thursday. The Google online store, expected to be similar to the ones of Apple and Amazon, would offer tablets made by Samsung and Asustek to boost the use of its Android operating system, The Wall Street Journal said [...]

A Los Angeles judge declared on Thursday that actress Lindsay Lohan’s probation stemming from a 2007 drunk driving case in Beverly Hills outside Los Angeles has ended, as she had successfully completed all requirements. The “Mean Girls” starlet met all the terms including community service hours and therapy sessions, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie [...]

LookAtVietnam – The Vietnam Volleyball Federation (VFV) has worked out a roadmap to reduce the number of foreign players in the volleyball season this year, and to completely ban foreign athletes next year. However, this plan is not backed. Sanest Khanh Hoa’s Oleksiy (Ukraine). After the VFV released its “xenophobic policy,” many people, both experts [...]

A research team for the annual M&A Vietnam Forum, to take place in June with Vietnam Investment Review (VIR) the organiser, puts Vietnam’s foreign-related M&A activities and prospects in 2012 under the microscope. Cross-border mergers and acquisitions activities are valued at thousands of billions of dollars annually and create conditions for investors to access their target [...]

Tram Chim National Park, in Tam Nong District of Dong Thap Province, has been recognized as the 2,000th Ramsar site of the world and the fourth of Vietnam by the Ramsar Convention – the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Nguyen Huu Thien, an ecologist with over 20 years of experience in conserving wetlands [...]

LookAtVietnam – The 3D video content market now offers more choices than ever with the availability of hundreds of videos. However, high technology product distributors have all said that the demand for 3D video playing devices is weak. Hundreds of 3D videos hit the market A survey by Buu dien’s reporters in the biggest markets [...]

  A  2008 European Football Championship match between France and Romania in Switzerland In a bizarre act, Vietnam Television’s top official in charge of selling broadcast rights warned the nation’s media last Tuesday that since VTV has the Vietnam rights for Euro 2012, any use of images from the football competition will be a violation [...]

Soc Trang team’s player Diep Phuoc Loc (14) poses with his teammates in 2011. Loc collapsed on the bench and died during a Mekong Delta Basketball Competition match on Sunday Basketball player Diep Phuoc Loc of the Soc Trang Team collapsed on the bench and died during a Mekong Delta Basketball Competition match on Sunday. [...]

Workers at the construction site of the Tan Rai alumina plant in Lam Dong Province, which is set to begin trial operations in June. Vietnam will operate the country’s first alumina plant on a trial basis this June, instead of April as initially planned, a senior plant official said. Tran Duong Le, deputy director of [...]