December 30, 2011
Strong small banks should be allowed greater lending growth A local commercial bank’s employee counts money next to piles of dong notes in Hanoi on Monday The application of different credit caps on different banks based on their operational capacity is expected to correct a situation where banks with customers cannot offer loans while [...]
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December 14, 2011
This photo, provided by the WWF, shows a self-cloning lizard (Leiolepis ngovantrii), which reproduces via cloning without the need for males. Scientists identify a new species every two days in the Greater Mekong region, the WWF said on December 12, in a report detailing 2010’s more unusual finds such as a leaf warbler and [...]
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November 6, 2011
The 28-ranked GM Le Quang Liem (L) will receive US$150,000 from the Vietnam Chess Federation in four years, Photo by VnExpress. The Vietnam Chess Federation (VCF) on Thursday inked four-year sponsorship contracts worth US$200,000 with the country’s two best chess players, Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son. The 20-year-old Liem, ranked 28th in [...]
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November 27, 2010
Tiger skin displayed for sale in Myanmar, where trade in the animals has reached crisis levels. Conservationists say the densely forested corridor between Thailand and Myanmar is the most crucial conservation zone in the greater Mekong Region. A global summit on wild tigers wrapped up in Russia Wednesday, when all of the participating nations agreed [...]
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February 1, 2010
Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70% in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a WWF report. LookAtVietnam – Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the [...]
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January 31, 2010
The Indochinese tiger is only found in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam Indochinaâs big-cat population at âcrisis point,â could vanish by next Year of Tiger, says WWF. Dead tigers turned up around Hanoi last year as if they were nothing more than cheap smuggled goods from China.Hanoi environmental police uncovered a [...]
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January 27, 2010
Tigers in the Greater Mekong region are facing extinction, their numbers down more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade due to poachers and habitat destruction, conservationists say. A new report by wildlife group WWF says tiger populations in the region that includes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam have fallen to 350 [...]
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December 26, 2009
Vietnamese-American film director and screenwriter Quan Lelan is making a name for himself in Tinsel Town after scooping the prestigious award for best screenplay at the Moondance International Film Festival. Quan Lelan with the producer and actresses from the 2007 remake of Dream of the Red Chamber.LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese-American film director and screenwriter Quan Lelan [...]
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November 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Some urban planners believe that the fast-growing system of higher education needs to be freed of too much central planning. This is the second part of a series on Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon (Saigon Economic Times). Education by the numbers In 1987, according to Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) statistics, Vietnam had 107 [...]
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October 27, 2009
Eximbank lists 876.2 million shares on HoSE; 10-month FDI disbursement estimates at 8 billion USD; VN seeks larger garment market share in Cambodia The Vietnam Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) officially listed more than 876.2 million shares, a record number, on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) on Oct. 27. With the move, Eximbank became the [...]
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