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Raffles Hanoi ordered to suspend several courses 

January 21, 2012
Raffles Hanoi ordered to suspend several courses 

  The Raffles International Training Center Hanoi has been fined and ordered to suspend its illegal diploma and bachelor courses, more than two weeks after similar action was taken against its sister organization in for the same violations. According to its registration license, the center can open short vocational courses in English, Marketing, Business Administration, [...]

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PM urges investigations into vehicle fires, as study backs gas quality theory 

January 16, 2012
PM urges investigations into vehicle fires, as study backs gas quality theory 

Experts at a HCMC university's petrochemistry center check a motorbike as part of ongoing investigations into recent vehicular fires. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Friday ordered related agencies to take urgent steps including checking fuel quality in the market to determine the cause of mysterious vehicular fires. Dodgy fuel is the latest suspect in [...]

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Money isn’t everything 

January 15, 2012
Money isn’t everything 

  Do Ngoc Tuan (R), 42, of Long An Province’s Ben Luc Town won more than US$300,000 after buying unsold tickets from vendor Pham Thi Lanh (L) Tuan’s equanimity in the face of such a change in his fortunes has made the news as much as the winning itself. Just as impressive is the story [...]

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Central province builds Sa Huynh Culture preservation center 

January 3, 2012
Central province builds Sa Huynh Culture preservation center 

Artifacts from Sa Huynh Culture (1000 BC – 200 AD). A ground-breaking ceremony to establish the Sa Huynh Culture Preservation Center was held last week in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Duc Pho District. The center will be built on an area of two hectares with a total capital investment of nearly VND32 billion (US$1.5 [...]

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Passenger buses to be banned from HCMC center 

December 29, 2011
Passenger buses to be banned from HCMC center 

  Ho Chi Minh City government in January will ban passenger buses that come from other provinces from entering the city center. There are major bus stations at the city outskirts, but many buses, especially those run by small businesses, have tried to win more credits by picking up and  leaving their customers at homes, some in the city [...]

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Drug addicts escape Vietnam northern rehab 

December 14, 2011

  Many drug addicts have escaped from a rehab center in northern Vietnam. Authorities on Tuesday said only 12 out of 31 escapees had been sent back to the center in Hai Duong Province around 57 kilometers from Hanoi, news website VnExpress reported. The addicts ran away on December 10, when the center gate was [...]

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Farm owner hands over 14 bears to rescue center 

December 12, 2011
Farm owner hands over 14 bears to rescue center 

A moon bear in a cage at a bear bile farm in the southern province of Binh Duong in a handout photo taken November 29, 2011. The Hong Kong-based Animals Asia Foundation has transported 14 moon bears voluntarily handed over by the owner of a bear farm in the southern province of Binh Duong to [...]

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DNA testing center opens in central Vietnam 

November 26, 2011
DNA testing center opens in central Vietnam 

The DNA testing center opens in the central city of Da Nang on Thursday Vietnam’s Anti-crime Police General Department on Thursday opened its third center for testing DNA in the central city of Da Nang, VnExpress reported. With equipment imported from the UK and the US, the center aims to provide support to police, prosecutors [...]

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Vietnam plans $81 mln for third satellite 

November 21, 2011
Vietnam plans $81 mln for third satellite 

  Over 60 million euro (US$81.12 million) will be invested in Vietnam’s third satellite expected to be launched in 2016, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Friday. According to Doan Minh Chung, chief of the Vietnam Space Technology Center, the 100-kilogram earth observation VNREDSat-1B will be produced by the Belgian-owned SpaceBel Group. [...]

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Inside the great animal gene pool 

November 21, 2011
Inside the great animal gene pool 

  Pu Mat National Park and the Pu Huong and Pu Hoat nature reserves are the core zones of the UNESCO-recognized Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, at 1.3 million hectares the largest such reserve in Southeast Asia. The park, whose name means high slope in the language of the Thai tribe, is located in the [...]

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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...