December 17, 2011
Australian students build a house for a poor man in Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam early December It seems like an unusual way for Australian teenagers to spend money they earned from part-time jobs, but 13 of them recently used their savings to attend special tours in southern Vietnam where they built houses [...]
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November 17, 2011
Vietnamese lawmakers questioned the safety of projects to build golf courses in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Hanoi’s Gia Lam Airport at a National Assembly session on Thursday. NA Deputy Vo Thi Dung from Ho Chi Minh City delivered her question to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung about the [...]
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November 11, 2011
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (right) ushers his Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang during a ceremony in Seoul. AFP Vietnam agreed on Tuesday to seek greater nuclear energy cooperation with South Korea, opening the way for its participation in the development of an atomic power plants in energy-hungry Vietnam. The agreement was reached during [...]
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September 4, 2011
A woman sits at her shop selling generators in downtown Hanoi. Last week, Vietnam’s ninth national conference on nuclear power wrapped up in the south central province of Ninh Thuan with local and international experts pointing out many factors that pose risks to the country’s first atomic power plants scheduled to begin construction in 2014. [...]
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September 1, 2011
Residents look at a map of the planned nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan Province’s Thuan Nam District. After scientists detected new faults near the site, experts have urged that the plans be deferred. Two fault lines hitherto uncovered have provoked myriad calls for Vietnam’s nuclear power plans to be deferred on safety considerations. Serious [...]
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August 23, 2011
Growth of Vietnamese film industry inhibited by lack of production facilities  Crumbled sets at the Hanoi-based Co Loa Studio. Directors said the critical lack of professional studios is hindering the local film industry’s development. If there is one aspect that clearly underlines the state of underdevelopment of Vietnam’s film industry, it is the state [...]
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August 5, 2011
A man walks past a factory at the Thang Long Industrial Park outside of Hanoi. Vietnam should only build industrial parks when and where they’re needed, Le Quoc Dung, vice chairman of the National Assembly’s Economic Committee, tells Thanh Nien Weekly in an interview. Thanh Nien Weekly: Why are so many industrial parks not full? [...]
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August 4, 2011
PetroVietnam has awarded its subsidiary a contract to build a 1,200-megawatt coal-fired thermal power plant in southern Vietnam, which will use coal imported from Indonesia and Australia, a local newspaper said on Wednesday. The unit, PetroVietnam Technical Services Corp (PTSC), would buy and install equipment, build and test-run the Song Hau 1 Thermal Power [...]
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July 4, 2011
A nearly-200-year-old house in Coc Thon Hamlet in the suburb of Hanoi The urbanization juggernaut has proved unstoppable in Vietnam, and evidence has been mounting about the inability of rural and suburban households to resist it, consigning beautiful homes with traditional architecture and long histories to extinction. The situation at Cu Da Village in [...]
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June 23, 2011
A famous village in the suburbs of Hanoi, with houses dating back hundreds of years, has decided to turn its back on history, aesthetics and healthy living A man walks past a house under construction in Cu Da Village in the outskirts of Hanoi. Famed for its century old European-style houses, the village has [...]
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