Posts Tagged ‘ Distance ’

Vietnam takes 17 golds after two days at SEA Games 

November 15, 2011
Vietnam takes 17 golds after two days at SEA Games 

21-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc (C) at the podium after finishing first in the women’s 20km walk; Photo by Kha Hoa. With 11 gold medals on Sunday, Vietnam has won a total of 17 gold medals after two days at the 26th South East Asian Games in Indonesia. Twenty-one-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc won the first gold [...]

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Distance treatment to save more lives in Vietnam 

July 4, 2011
Distance treatment to save more lives in Vietnam 

  Patients with critical conditions from southern provinces are going to be cured from afar by doctors in Ho Chi Minh City instead of waiting for hours to reach the city hospitals, local news website VnExpress said Wednesday.   Doctors at the patients’ area will get support and instructions from those in HCMC via the [...]

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Transport ministry plans airfare increase

February 3, 2010
Transport ministry plans airfare increase

LookAtVietnam – MOT on January 28 sent a dispatch to the Ministry of Finance, requesting to launch airfare guidelines for domestic flights. The highest airfare (not including VAT and airport fee) proposed for the flights with a distance of 850 kilometres and higher is 1.81 million dong instead of the current level of 1.629 million [...]

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Hunting for air tickets to fly on Tet days

December 18, 2009
Hunting for air tickets to fly on Tet days

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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Power lines pose health hazard to public

December 4, 2009
Power lines pose health hazard to public

Integrating grounded fences may be a good short-term solution to minimise electrical threats for building sites in proximity to the high-voltage power lines or transformer stations. Workers inspect transformers which are in unsafe distance to a high-rise building in HCM City. In reality, many houses in HCM City are located near power lines fail to [...]

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Remote learning short on investment

October 27, 2009
Remote learning short on investment

LookAtVietnam – Education experts believe the State has not invested heavily enough in remote learning. It comes at a time when technology and demand mean this type of education can play an important role boosting Vietnam’s increasingly knowledge-based economy. According to Dr Professor Lam Quang Thiep, former director of the Higher Education Department under the Ministry [...]

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Ignorance puts lonely truck drivers at risk

June 11, 2009
Ignorance puts lonely truck drivers at risk

This café (behind the truck) on Ca Pass between Khanh Hoa and Phu Yen provinces in the central region is allegedly a brothel offering sexual services to long-distance truck drivers A long-distance container truck driver in Ho Chi Minh City has returned to work with a clean bill of health three months after leaving without [...]

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City houses too close to power grids for comfort

April 28, 2009
City houses too close to power grids for comfort

Though the minimum safe distance from a power pylon is half a meter, many houses along Tam Dao Street in Ward 15 in District 10 are wrapped around one or more tower legs. Many families in Ho Chi Minh City are putting themselves in danger by building their homes close to high-voltage power lines and [...]

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Behind the wheel and high as a kite

April 24, 2009
Behind the wheel and high as a kite

Police in Khanh Hoa Province inspect a bus for illegal drugs. Many truck and bus drivers say they take drugs to overcome the boredom of long journeys. Last Wednesday a container truck stopped at a diner on National Road 1A in the southern province of Dong Nai, 35 km to the northeast of Ho Chi [...]

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Distance learning lacks infrastructure

November 3, 2008
Distance learning lacks infrastructure

VietNamNet Bridge – Limited infrastructure and facilities and poor learning materials are the main reasons for the inability to provide distance education to more people in Viet Nam, educationists have said. Distance learning has evolved into one of the main forms of training in most countries. A typical programme in China, Korea, or Thailand has [...]

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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...