The two leading dailies in Japan, the Asahi Shimbun and the Yomiuri Shimbun, have reported that the Japan-Vietnam Joint Committee on Combating ODA Corruption in Japan-funded projects in Vietnam will release the first report this March. Lookatvietnam – The two leading dailies in Japan, the Asahi Shimbun and the Yomiuri Shimbun, have reported that [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Consumers hope the retail petrol prices will reduce further. However, the hope may not become realistic as petrol importers are complaining that they are suffering losses. The crude oil price in the world once dropped to US $35 a barrel, a decrease of 73-77% if compared with the highest peak of US [...]
The country’s showbiz circle will not see breakthroughs this year. That was the common idea shared with VietNamNet by some reputed artists. Vietnamese Song, a music show of the Vietnam Television.Director Pham Hoang Nam: For all fields of art, there will always be different trends of development between the north and the south, with different [...]
Experts have provided figures that reveal the biggest problem of university education: New graduates do not have the practical experience necessary to perform their jobs well. The survey of thousands of students who have just graduated from X University in HCM City showed that 60% of the university’s students think the curriculum was overloaded with [...]
Lookatvietnam – The US Ambassador to Vietnam, Michael Michalak, has spoke optimistically of the expansion and deepening of US-Vietnam cooperation in 2009. The US Ambassador to Vietnam, Michael Michalak.Speaking with the press in Hanoi on Jan. 20, the Ambassador said that 2008 “is a very good year for the relationship between Vietnam and US.” He [...]
After the high expectations of salt farmers have been dashed by unseasonal rains earlier this month, a supply shortage is likely later in the year, officials say. The rains have destroyed 1,500 hectares of salt fields in the Mekong Deltaâs Bac Lieu Province, the regionâs largest salt producer.Trinh Van Nghia of Dong Hai Districtâs Dien [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – “This time last year I bought a lot of things for Tet but this year I haven’t bought anything yet. We don’t have much money this Tet,” said a woman named Mai, in Yen Son ward, Hoang Mai district, Hanoi. Tet atmosphere has covered the street but it seems to not come [...]
European Union officials complained on Tuesday about the lack of gas flow from Russia through Ukraine to Europe after Russia resumed early gas supplies under a three-way deal signed on the previous day. The headquarters of Russian gas giant Gazprom in Moscow January 13, 2009. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso spoke by phone [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Hearing about the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s plan to raise the electricity price, people worry that they will be burdened by the price increases, while businesses say they will meet big difficulties in production. Tri, a retired woman in Nghia Tan residential quarter, related that her family spends VND150,000 a month [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Though the statistics showed the satisfactory sales of cars in 2008 overall, dealers have still been weeping because they were not able to sell cars in the last three months of the year due to the belt-tightening policies of people. The biggest sufferers are the showrooms that sell import cars. Statistics showed [...]
