Lookatvietnam – Weekly exhibition, performance, cinema and dining out information at your fingertips. Plus a list of local festival of the month: time, locations and attraction. – Bedtime Stories (US, US)- Red Cliff 2 (China, OV)- Huyen Thoai Bat Tu (The Legend is Alive) (Viet Nam)- Giai Cuu Than Chet (Saving The Death) (Viet Nam)- [...]
Lookatvietnam – The Government has doled out as many as 2.5 trillion VND to aid 2.4 million poor households with over 10 million people across 63 provinces and cities in the Tet (traditional New Year) festival, the Government office reported. LookAtVietnam – The Government has doled out as many as 2.5 trillion VND to aid [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The story about the steel project boom has not surprised anyone. It is simply because before hearing about the steel project boom, they were familiar with the stories about the sugar plant and cement factory booms. Experts have warned that the ‘steel lesson’ could turn out to be even more severe than [...]
The foreign currency black market in Hanoi remains hot, though it is December 28th of the Lunar Year, or just two days before Tet. The dollar price on the market today has increased by VND20/US$1 over yesterday. Foreign exchange shops this morning have raised the sale price of the dollar by tens of VND per [...]
Lookatvietnam – A blood donation drive called “Red Sunday” – held in Hanoi on Jan. 18 by Tien Phong newspaper and the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion – gathered 96 units of blood from about 350 donors who registered. “The amount of blood donated may not be much, but it has a deep [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), on Thursday, announced that 2.4 million poor and ethnic minority people will benefit from direct assistance. Ethnic minority people will benefit from this program. At the announcement ceremony of the program for rapid and sustainable poverty reduction for 61 poor districts in Vietnam [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Many labourers from the countryside are flocking to cities to seek opportunities but inflation and unemployment are hitting them hard. Poverty is probable. Rural laborers at a manpower “market” in Hanoi. Farmers falling back into poverty (Part 1) Quiet manpower markets There were around 70-80 rural labourers sitting along the 100 metre slope named Buoi [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – ‘Doing good things during Tet,’ a charity program for poor farmers accomplished its mission Saturday to collect donations to bring cheer to 2,000 poor families this Tet holiday. Miss Universe Vietnam 2008 – Thuy Lam – performs on stageVietNamNet Bridge – ‘Doing good things during Tet,’ a charity program for poor farmers [...]
The Vietnamese government has said it will sell VND36 trillion (US$2.1 billion) worth of bonds next year to help fund stimulus spending after the economy had expanded at its slowest pace in almost a decade. The bonds will make up part of as much as $6 billion of spending with the rest of the money [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The country’s coffee exports are estimated to hit one million tonnes this year, earning a turnover of US$2.2 billion, according to the Viet Nam Coffee and Cocoa Association. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved a plan to boost the competitiveness of Viet Nam’s coffee industry by 2015, improving both [...]
