According to the Ministry of Health, 56 percent of hospitals in Vietnam do not have wastewater treatment systems while 70 percent of their current facilities do not even meet with national quality standards. The wastewater treatment plant at the Pasteur Institute in HCM City. At present, Vietnam has 13,500 hospitals and health clinics that [...]
LookAtVietnam would like to introduce a letter to Vietnam from a reader, Thomas Mac Innes, from South Africa. I am writing to you from South Africa, a country with a turbulent history. Yours is also a country with a turbulent and painful past. Yours is a country that knows all too well what it feels [...]
Tokyo Electric Power Co. is to abandon plans to export its nuclear power plant expertise as it struggles to cope with the Fukushima disaster, according to news reports. A model of Japanese-made nuclear reactor. The turnaround by one of the world’s largest utilities would be a blow to Japan’s once-proud policy of promoting its [...]
Vietnam’s benchmark five-year bonds on Friday rose for a third day, pushing the yield to the lowest in more than a week, on speculation falling money-market rates increased demand from lenders. The dong strengthened. The overnight interbank deposit rate fell 97 basis points to 4.41 percent on Friday, its lowest level in two weeks, [...]
Turkish military personnel on patrol near the border with Syria in Kilis. Once upon a time, not too long ago, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was the prime proponent of a foreign policy dubbed "zero problems with our neighbors" – derided by many in the West as "new-Ottomanism". The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meets [...]
LookAtVietnam – VNG, VTC and FPT Online, the three biggest names on the online game market may be dislodged from their positions since a series of small distributors have appeared and reaped fruits. New emerging names SGame, SSGroup, Vivoo, CMN Game have joined the market for the last few years. However, the period has been [...]
LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese parents and students now have many choices for the training courses on life skills. Well off families can send their children to overseas summer courses, while others can bring their children to domestic summer camps. Big changes have happened in Vietnamese parents’ thoughts. Instead of trying to stuff in their children’s heads [...]
Vietnam is mapping out a pathway to a more developed supporting industry to enhance its competitive capacity. The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s (MoIT) drafted strategy, with a focus on attracting investment from small- and medium-sized (SMEs) foreign companies, has been sent to provincial and ministerial bodies for comment and outlines Vietnam’s call for investment [...]
LookAtVietnam – The ban of bathing in the sea out of the working hours (7am-5pm) has risen difficult for Vung Tau city’s tourism industry. Local people said that this ban is ridiculous because they have to work and do not have time for having bath in the sea after 5pm. Mr. Doan The Long, from [...]
An explosion tore through the car park outside Syria’s highest court in central Damascus on Thursday, torching at least 20 cars, a Reuters witness said, but it was not immediately known if there were any casualties. The building appeared intact as firefighters doused burning cars with water and ambulances arrived at the scene, with [...]
