April 16, 2011
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (C), International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) and South Korean Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun chat before posing for the family photo of G20. Seven of the world’s leading economies including China and the United States faced deep scrutiny over fiscal and financial imbalances Saturday as the G20 [...]
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February 4, 2010
After five years of operation, the Vietnam-Belgium Dairy project has brought about a 42% increase in milk production and a 100% increase in the prices . . . “Rather than trying to increase the number of cows by providing loans to the farmers, we decided to help farmers get more milk out of each cow”.Raf [...]
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December 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – While the Ministry of Education and Training reports that Vietnam still lacks around 40,000 teachers, many suitably qualified graduates still cannot find jobs. Phong Vu is still waiting for a job after two yearsAfter performing well at Dong Thap University, Ho Thi Be Thuy from Vinh Long province believed she would soon get [...]
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December 19, 2009
Shocked by being banned from leaving Vietnam, the former general director of Jetstar Pacific, is working with competent agencies to make clear all of the airline’s matters during his term of office. Mr. Luong Hoai Nam. Former Jetstar Pacific’s General Director banned from leaving VietnamFinance Ministry discloses pay of SCIC officialsBig losses but huge salaries – [...]
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December 18, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Passengers complain that they cannot book air tickets to fly on Tet holiday, though Tet two months is two months away. It is very difficult to get a ticket from December 24 of Lunar Year (February 8, 2010) and afterwardsGiang, who lives in HCM City, decided to take his five-month-old son to his [...]
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November 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – SBV this morning decided to raise the basic interest rate and adjust both the official exchange rate and trading band. Analysts say the central bank has chosen to take drastic measures to stabilize an overly hot market instead of taking more gradual, smaller steps. A series of decisions were released by Governor of the [...]
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November 24, 2009
LookAtVietnam – If you visit Duc Tho town’s nursery school you might see a man carefully spoon-feeding children and covering them with blankets. He is Luong Xuan Phong, believed to be the only male nursery school teacher in Vietnam. Phong did not choose the career. He was trained instead as a musician. After the training course, [...]
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October 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The lure of electronic games, gambling … the pitfalls are many for students from countryside who aspire to become townspeople. Lan left her home village for her first year at Hanoi National University scarcely a month ago. Already she has changed herself so much that her high school classmates cannot recognize her. The [...]
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October 15, 2009
220 billion VND, 7,000 tonnes of rice for disaster victims; Protecting hospitals key in natural disaster mitigation; 1,000 international odontologists gather in Vietnam Photo: VNAThe Prime Minister has decided to grant 220 billion VND in aid from the State budget and 7,000 tonnes of rice to the victims of natural disasters in 15 provinces nationwide. [...]
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October 14, 2009
There’s a relatively new phenomenon in Vietnam – kids decide they must move out of the family home and learn how to ‘stand on their own feet.’ Students who decide to be ‘self-reliant’ They are mostly university students from well-off families. Their living conditions are ideal and their allowances ample. And yet they resolve to move [...]
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