January 2, 2012
Alternative exhibition spaces are striving to develop in Vietnam 20 years after they first came on the scene An artist performing his work at the ‘Shaping a Line’ exhibition, opening from July 28 to September 8, at San Art in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo courtesy of SanArt. Artists are famous, if not notorious, [...]
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July 2, 2011
Thanks to scores of dedicated performers, Vietnam’s traditional puppetry will continue to survive but experts say it will take more than that to make the art form thrive Water puppetry performances at the festival which was attended by nearly 300 puppeteers from 15 village guilds across the country. A veteran puppeteer famously said that [...]
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May 3, 2011
An official checks a visitor at a radiation screening center in Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture. Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis. The massive March [...]
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April 4, 2011
Vietnamese workers in Libya prepare to fly home from an airport in Egypt. Around 10,000 Vietnamese workers have been evacuated due to the violence in Libya. A big challenge for a labor exporting country like Vietnam is protecting its workers’ rights, so that they are not cheated by recruitment agencies and/or overseas employers, Max Tunon, [...]
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March 9, 2011
A man rides a bicycle past a construction site in Ho Chi Minh City. Real estate trading in the city is very slow, and prices have fallen sharply. Given that the real estate market is facing capital shortages, Vietnam should allow investors to access loans from foreign commercial banks at far lower interest rates. Dang [...]
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January 15, 2011
A Vietnamese paratrooper Regiment C16 at a practice session on September 17, 2010. Regional defense experts argue that Vietnam’s recent weapons upgrades do not demonstrate participation in a regional arms race. Last year, Vietnam acquired new frigates, multi-role jet fighters, Kilo-class submarines and anti-shipping missiles. Foreign experts argue that the move is purely defensive. “Vietnam [...]
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February 3, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Experts are talking about a new tendency in real estate investment – ecological real estate. Projects booming Reports released by real estate service providers CBRE, Savills and Vietress in late 2009 all predict that markets in resort areas will develop well. Especially, ecological apartments which will be a new trend and will rapidly develop [...]
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February 2, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Leaders of Tien Giang Province committed to create the most favorable conditions for investors to do business in the province. President Nguyen Minh Triet speaks at the conferencePresident Nguyen Minh Triet, who attended the conference, pointed out big opportunities to attract investment that Tien Giang needs to grab. The commercial hub of HCM [...]
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January 31, 2010
Japan will help provide more technical and financial assistance to help Vietnam develop local small and medium businesses that play a key role in the development of supporting industries, a Japanese economist has said. Hirohiko Sekiya, senior economist at the Japan Economic Research Institute or JERI, said the Japanese government has approved a grant of [...]
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January 25, 2010
Students from the University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City wait to sit their semester exams. Vietnamese education needs to focus on the practical everyday needs of the economy, experts said, eschewing the long-held belief that the country must strive to create an âAmerican-styleâ or âworld-classâ university. There is no perfect model for building [...]
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