January 11, 2012
Vietnam will adjust policy interest rates to “more suitable” levels after the first quarter and weaken the dong as much as 3 percent this year, central bank Governor Nguyen Van Binh said. “We believe that 2012 will be a hard year, a challenging year for Vietnam’s economy,” Binh said at a conference in Hanoi [...]
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January 9, 2012
Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested one Vietnamese and three Malaysian men for allegedly using fake ATM cards to withdraw money from local banks. They are believed to be members of a transnational crime ring. The first arrest, of Co Kim Thach, a 39-year-old resident of District 5, was made on December 30, [...]
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January 7, 2012
 Tran Tuy’s Khuc dong ca (a children’s song) (Under), which was eerily reminiscent of photographer Duy Anh’s Tiep buoc cha ong (Follow in the ancestor’s footsteps) (Above). Since the list of award-winning works were announced in June, a provincial literature and arts contest in central Vietnam has received several petitions of denouncement regarding a [...]
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January 7, 2012
Dau Ngoc Hung (L) arrives at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport January 4. Hung is the sole survivor out of 23 sailors who were on board the Vietnamese cargo vessel Vinalines Queen which reportedly sank off the Philippines on December 25 without sending distress signals. The sole survivor from the Vinalines Queen, the Vietnamese [...]
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January 3, 2012
A street vendor walks past a Chanel SA store inside the Rex Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Vietnam’s growth held near 6 percent this quarter, reducing the pressure for further monetary tightening after higher interest rates limited the boost to the economy from exports and domestic consumption. [...]
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January 3, 2012
Leeches have been spreading rapidly in Ho Chi Minh City ’s Hoc Mon District. Locals began breeding them based on demand from China , but dumped them in local fields and other areas after the main buyer closed shop three months ago. Vietnam’s agriculture ministry has issued a ban on the breeding of leeches [...]
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December 31, 2011
A motorbike on fire in Hanoi on October 12 Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Tran Van Vinh, deputy chief of the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, as saying [...]
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December 26, 2011
Still from a security camera shows Mark Zuckerberg (first, left) visiting a Verty luxury mobile phone shop in Hanoi on Thursday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girl friend Pricilla Chan spent Christmas Eve on a cruise ship on Ha Long Bay. Â They were spotted first at a cell phone shop in Hanoi’s Metropole [...]
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December 25, 2011
China’s Vice President Xi Jinping (L) is greeted by Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan (R) and Party’s Senior Politburo member Le Hong Anh (C) upon his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi December 21. Vietnam and China agreed to comprehensively boost strategic cooperation during Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Hanoi [...]
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December 23, 2011
The first and only province to declare the epidemic of the hand, foot, and mouth disease in Vietnam this week said the dangerous period has ended. Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuan made the announcement after its Health Department on December 12 said the province has gotten the disease under control. The number of [...]
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