LookAtVietnam – The home of Mr. Mai Van Canh, 54, in the central province of Thanh Hoa, has become a destination of curious people for the last three weeks, since his coconut tree began ‘crying.’ Canh said that this tree was planted by his grandfather over 70 years ago. It is now 17-18m tall. In [...]
LookAtVietnam – While domestically made products have been piling up in enterprises’ stocks, imports still have been selling well in the domestic market. Vietnamese manufacturers have been worried stiff with the big inventories. The unsalability of products has been attributed to the weak domestic demand, since people have to fasten their belt in the context [...]
LookAtVietnam – Hundreds of mechanical engineering enterprises have shut down or announced bankruptcy so far this year. Meanwhile, mechanical engineering, for the last many years, has been considered the key industry–the pillar of the Vietnamese industries, which has been enjoying a lot of preferences. Mechanical engineering pushed against the wall The Tam Bac Shipbuilding Industry [...]
LookAtVietnam – The 50 hectare Uyen Phong Forest in Quang Binh province has been living for the last thousands of year and safe from illegal lumberjacks. Here the forest has been protected by the village convention. Phan Thanh, deputy head of Uyen Phong hamlet in Chau Hoa commune of Tuyen Hoa district in the central [...]
LookAtVietnam – Most of the current Vietnamese websites now simply provide information, and they are not associated with inside systems such as level-3- or 4- public services. Therefore, if a cyber war occurs, it would not have big influences to Vietnam. More than half of the systems cannot record attacks Vu Quoc Khanh, Director of [...]
A total of 963,571 students will take their high-school graduation examinations from June 2-4, according to the Ministry of Education and Training. Of the figure, 856,271 are full-time candidates and the rest are continuing-education students, said Ngo Kim Khoi, Head of the Ministry’s Educational Testing and Quality Assessment Department. The number of students doing [...]
LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam was looking to implement a comprehensive assessment of graduates from English teaching colleges in an effort to improve the quality of English teachers, said Nguyen Ngoc Hung, manager of the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) ’s National Foreign Languages 2020 Project. The results of the assessment would be announced publicly [...]
LookAtVietnam – A delegation from Russian-based Far East Federal University (FEFU) will pay a working visit to Vietnam from May 28 to June 8 including a meeting with Bui Van Ga, deputy minister of Education and Training. During the visit, FEFU is expected to sign agreements on scientific and educational cooperation with leading universities in [...]
LookAtVietnam – On May 23 and 24, 2012, international physics science journals retracted three articles of Le Duc Thong, MA, raising the total number of retracted articles to seven over the last two years. The retracted articles were the ones written “by Le Duc Thong and research team,” which included the professors and physics experts [...]
Since the beginning of this year, nearly three million foreign visitors have arrived in Vietnam, up 17.5 percent compared to the same period last year. According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), 1,750,000 people came to the country as tourists, 510,000 for work, 520,000 to visit relatives and 166,000 for other purposes. [...]
