December 2, 2011
The State Bank of Vietnam will sign a joint-circular with the Ministry of Public Security to improve anti-crime efforts in banking and lending activities, according to a banking conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday. Central bank governor Nguyen Van Binh made the announcement at the conference, where officials pointed out that the [...]
Tags: activities, banking, banks, cases, Central bank, corruption, Corruption cases, lending, Lending Activities, money, Officials, Police, state, State bank, Thanh, The Banking, The state, The state bank, Vietnam
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September 23, 2011
Luong Thanh Nghi, spokesman of the Vietnamese foreign ministry Vietnam on Friday protested China’s recent fishing activities in the waters of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago, saying they violated its indisputable sovereignty . Luong Thanh Nghi, spokesman of the Vietnamese foreign ministry, also rejected as "invalid" China’s recent objections against oil and gas exploration projects carried out by [...]
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August 13, 2011
Vietnam's foreign ministry spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga. Vietnam has protested China’s recent geological exploration activity off the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, the foreign ministry spokesperson said Monday. “Vietnam protests China’s activities that violate Vietnam’s sovereignty and jurisdiction, and demands that China immediately stop them and not let similar activities take place again,” Nguyen [...]
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July 23, 2011
As China and ASEAN inch closer to a goodwill declaration on the East Sea, experts doubt that it will ease tensions Vietnamese fishermen in the East Sea. Experts have called a recent agreement to implement a regional declaration of goodwill a step toward resolving growing tensions in the East Sea. Experts have called a [...]
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July 17, 2011
Occupational therapist goes native to help special children in Vietnam Takao Maiko, 27, plays with children at the Daycare class of the Ho Chi Minh City’s Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center for physical disabled children “Open it, baby,” Takao Maiko tells the seven- year-old polio-stricken boy in slow, but clear Vietnamese. Nothing happens. The little [...]
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June 5, 2011
The members of  Ho Chi Minh City’s Great Bear Club have poured into the park for a summer of exercise and fun Members of the Sao Bac Dau (Great Bear) Club stand ready for review at Tao Dan Park on Sunday Last week, summer officially began for Vietnam’s school children. On Sunday, it seemed [...]
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June 4, 2011
International experts condemn China for disrupting Vietnam’s legal marine activities and urged the country to be better prepared for the next encounter Fishermen unloading tunas in the central province of Binh Thuan. On Sunday, Vietnam condemned China for increasing regional tensions and said it would do everything necessary to protect its territorial integrity after [...]
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May 31, 2011
This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan [...]
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May 24, 2011
A woman and child visit a museum in Monaco. People who go to museums and concerts or create art or play an instrument are more satisfied with their lives, regardless of how educated or rich they are, according to a study released Tuesday. But the link between culture and feeling good about oneself is not [...]
Tags: activities, cultural, Cultural Activities, health, people, Satisfaction With Life, study:, The Link, The results, The study
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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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