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Vietnam's general elections: turnout higher than 97 percent 

May 28, 2011
Vietnam's general elections: turnout higher than 97 percent 

Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, puts his vote into a ballot box Sunday in Hanoi. Over 97 percent of voters across the country cast their votes in the elections to national and local legislative bodies on Sunday, according to the National Assembly’s office.   The Ministry of Home Affairs [...]

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Mating game: Too much choice will leave you lonely 

March 2, 2011
Mating game: Too much choice will leave you lonely 

  Scientists have made a surprising discovery: The more options you have for choosing a lover, the likelier you are to end up with no-one. British investigators, in a new study released on Wednesday, looked at the strange dynamics of choice in speed-dating, a fashionable way for singles to meet. Speed-daters race through a rota [...]

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Open recruitment of university presidents?

November 10, 2009
Open recruitment of university presidents?

LookAtVietnam – VGU has advertised for experienced candidate to fill the post of Deputy President. Should Vietnam follow the model? Mai Trong Nhuan, Director of the Hanoi National UniversityIt seems that advertising for candidates to fill high posts at universities very rarely takes place in Vietnam. In principle, we can assess university presidents every year and [...]

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Vietnam may miss both Miss World and Miss Earth pageants

October 15, 2009
Vietnam may miss both Miss World and Miss Earth pageants

With but two months to go before the Miss World pagent, there’s no assurance of a Vietnamese contestant. Huong GiangElite Vietnam withdraws, RASS jumps in For many years, Elite Vietnam has been the exclusive provider of contestants from Vietnam to international beauty contests, including Miss World.  This year, however, the model management firm decided to stop [...]

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HCM City lacks qualified elementary teachers

September 19, 2009
HCM City lacks qualified elementary teachers

LookAtVietnam – The new school year opened with the failure of the education sector to supply sufficient teachers for HCM City’s elementary schools. To cope with the situation, many districts have had no choice but assign the task of teaching elementary pupils to freshly graduated nursery or junior high school teachers.Binh Chanh District had to [...]

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Strict rules keep Vietnamese films out of Academy Awards nominations

August 20, 2009
Strict rules keep Vietnamese films out of Academy Awards nominations

LookAtVietnam – There will not be many choices for the sole Vietnamese entry to the Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film 2010 due to strict entry regulations Up in smoke: A scene from Dung Dot (Don’t Burn It), which is considered one of the most likely candidates to be selected as the sole Vietnamese entry [...]

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‘Entrust heavy responsibilities to innovators,’ former NA Chairman urges

August 20, 2009
‘Entrust heavy responsibilities to innovators,’ former NA Chairman urges

VietNamNet reporters talked with former Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An about ways of identifying and using ‘people of talent.’  VietNamNet: We Vietnamese have achieved a great deal in the past two decades thanks to the Doi Moi (renovation) philosophy and our transformation from the subsidy and rationing system to a market-based economic [...]

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DPJ shows confidence with proportional-representation only candidates

August 18, 2009
DPJ shows confidence with proportional-representation only candidates

As official campaigning got under way for the Aug. 30 election, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) fielded a record-high 59 candidates for proportional-representation (PR) only seats. Japan’s main opposition Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama waves to voters from his campaign car during his official campaign kick-off for the lower house election, in Osaka, western [...]

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U.S. remains impartial in Afghan presidential election: Clinton

August 18, 2009
U.S. remains impartial in Afghan presidential election: Clinton

The United States is proud to support the Afghan people to conduct their presidential election, and will remain impartial in the election, said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media during a visit to the Foreign Minister’s Residence in Abuja August 12, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters [...]

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Blind candidate admitted to music institute with highest score

July 25, 2009
Blind candidate admitted to music institute with highest score

LookAtVietnam – With a score of 37, a blind candidate, Mai Thi Tu, achieved the highest score of anybody and was admitted into the Hue Music Institute on July 22. Mai Thi Tu (1st, L) and her friends take part in the university entrance exam 2009. (Photo: Dan Tri) LookAtVietnam – With a score of [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...