January 25, 2012
Consumer demand for holiday goods and transportation will grow 10 percent from last year, according to a government forecast that urged authorities to monitor and stabilize prices. Asia’s fastest inflation is the last thing on Tran Hang’s mind as she jostles fellow shoppers at a street stall in Hanoi’s Old Quarter to snap up [...]
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January 20, 2012
The Tet flower road will return to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City this Friday, highlighted by a giant dragon blowing blooms, as the city starts celebrating the Year of Dragon. With the Lunar New Year starting Monday next week, work to transform Nguyen Hue Street into a street of flowers began on January 10. The 12 meter long, [...]
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July 30, 2011
Farmers harvest dragon fruit for export in the central province of Binh Thuan. The US decided to import more varieties of Vietnamese fruit, creating further opportunities for the nation’s fruit industry. The market often pays high prices for imported fruit, but maintains strict quality standards. At the moment, it requires imported fruit to meet VietGap [...]
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April 6, 2011
Underage workers employed at a garment sweatshop in HCMC Three teenage girls, aged 15 to 16, returned home last week from brothels allegedly disguised as barbershops in the Central Highlands town of Buon Ma Thuot. Two of the girls were being returned for the second time. Last November, a non-governmental organization rescued the girls from [...]
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November 14, 2010
 The legend “Dragon and Fairy” will be conveyed to audiences by a combination of dance, acrobatics and kung fu demons. When Laura Burke arrived in Ho Chi Minh City in 2000, she was shocked by the city’s lack of places for tourists to engage with the country’s cultural heritage. “It was so crazy because [...]
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November 9, 2010
South Korea has licensed imports of Vietnamese dragon fruit, becoming the third export market for the fruit after the US and Japan. Dragon fruit is Vietnamâs first fresh fruit that has gained access to South Korea, said the Post-Import Plant Protection Center No. 2 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. South Korea requires [...]
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February 6, 2010
Artisans work at the calligraphy market on Pham Ngoc Thach Street in HCM City’s District 1.LookAtVietnam – Traditional Tet favourites like calligraphy markets and flower fairs have begun in HCM City in the week before the lunar New Year.On Pham Ngoc Thach and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai streets in front of the Labour Cultural House, [...]
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January 20, 2010
After the success of the first Long Bien Bridge Festival, the second will be held by the Vietnam Embassy in France and the Maison des Art to mark the 1000th anniversary of Hanoi. LookAtVietnam – After the success of the first Long Bien Bridge Festival in October 2009, the second will be jointly held by [...]
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January 14, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Dragon Capital has denied rumors that it plans to quit Vietnam’s investment markets. Dominic Scriven, Chief Executive Officer of Dragon CapitalOver the last few days the rumor that has served to discouraged Vietnamese investors in the investment business.“We do not have any plans to withdraw capital from Vietnam,” said Dominic Scriven, Chief Executive [...]
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December 28, 2009
Jan Cempirek has become famous in Czech after he was revealed as the author of White Horse, Yellow Dragon, which had won a prestigious annual award under the name of a Vietnamese girl. Writer Jan Cempirek and the Vietnamese girl who played Pham Thi Lan in the video clip sent to the jury of the [...]
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