DA NANG – The “Know Your Number” Campaign, part of a larger social marketing initiative implemented by the Population Services International (PSI)/Vietnam to address the high rates of undiagnosed hypertension among adult men and women over the age of forty (40), will be launched at 29/3 Park, Da Nang at 5.30pm, May 16, 2012. With [...]
LookAtVietnam – A woman from Tam Phuoc commune, Phu Ninh district in the central province of Quang Nam on July 31, caught a butterfly with wing span of up to 50cm. The giant butterfly. The woman, named Pham Thi Nhu Thao, was scared when she first saw the giant butterfly on a kumquat tree in [...]
LookAtVietnam – Until recently, life was not too difficult for residents of Suoi Cam Hamlet. Half of its residents lived off the sea, and they only had to venture a few hundred metres off the coast to earn between VND200,000 and VND500,000 dong (US$9.7-24) for a night’s fishing. The Thuy Trieu Lagoon offered fish, shrimp [...]
LookAtVietnam – The 12th National Assembly Economic Committee has completed a report with 10 proposals for ensuring macro stability of Vietnam in the medium and long terms, under which the committee suggests restructuring the roles of State-owned enterprises (SOEs). According to the committee, the restructuring aims to help SOEs complete basic tasks, fixing shortcomings of [...]
LookAtVietnam – Immediate privatisation of the electricity industry may put a burden on incompetent private power plants and affect the national power supply, one official said. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said on the sideline of the ongoing National Assembly’s session, that private power producers do not run efficiently enough to survive in the [...]
LookAtVietnam – The Ministry of Finance has issued Circular 94/2011/TT-BTC modifying its previous circular that offers guidelines for implementation of Government Decree 142/2005/ND-CP of November 14, 2005 on land rent. However, it is expected to see whether the new circular will cope with unreasonable things over land rent and will lead enterprises to stop complaining [...]
LookAtVietnam – Quang Nam provincial authorities feel elated with the idea of setting up a national automobile center, while considering applying huge incentives to investors. Meanwhile, the plan has not been welcomed by many automobile manufacturers. Under the plan, the national automobile center would be located in Tam Anh Industrial Zone and the communes of [...]
LookAtVietnam – Telepathy has become very popular in Vietnam, particularly in searching for lost remains. The Ministry of Labor, War Valid and Social Affairs recently held a workshop on the ability of telepaths in searching tombs. Experts said that there was no scientific verification of telepaths’ capability and some telepaths performed superstitious activities. Deputy Minister [...]
LookAtVietnam – Software parks were the key to developing the information technology and communication sector but they lacked united management and detailed strategies, an IT forum heard recently. To Thi Thu Huong, an official from the Ministry of Information and Communic-ations’ Department of Information and Technology, told the forum in HCM City earlier this month [...]
LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese contestant at Miss Asia USA 2011 pageant Phan Thi Mo was very confident and friendly with other contestants. Belows are the first pictures of Phan Thi Mo in the US: VNE
