Posts Tagged ‘ Hanoi Based ’

Disaffected youth? 

January 2, 2012
Disaffected youth? 

  Outpouring of frustration and disappointment among youth indicates a need to strengthen pride and confidence in the nation, experts say Young people at an enlistment ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City last September. A national enlistment program this year saw thousands of youth voluntarily join the army. Experts say the sense of national pride [...]

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Vietnam named first runner-up in Japan programming contest 

December 30, 2011
Vietnam named first runner-up in Japan programming contest 

Vu Viet Duc and Vu Thanh Tu, both students at the University of Engineering and Technology under the Hanoi-based Vietnam National University, won first runner-up prize at a Japanese programming contest on Decmber 23. Vietnam has won the first runner-up prize in an international programming contest initiated by Japan, according to a report in Tuoi [...]

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Vietnam named first runner-up in Japan programming contest 

December 29, 2011
Vietnam named first runner-up in Japan programming contest 

Vu Viet Duc and Vu Thanh Tu, both students at the University of Engineering and Technology under the Hanoi-based Vietnam National University, won first runner-up prize at a Japanese programming contest on Decmber 23. Vietnam has won the first runner-up prize in an international programming contest initiated by Japan, according to a report in Tuoi [...]

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Child survivor in northern Vietnam bike explosion succumbs 

December 15, 2011
Child survivor in northern Vietnam bike explosion succumbs 

Nguyen Khanh Van, 4, succumbs to multiple injuries in a bike explosion in the northern province of Bac Ninh Tuesday. The four-year-old girl who was critically injured in the explosion of a motorbike in the northern province of Bac Ninh died Tuesday, Dan Tri quoted the Hanoi-based National Institute of Burns as saying. Nguyen Khanh [...]

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Health workers face charges in infant's dissapearance in Hanoi 

November 8, 2011
Health workers face charges in infant's dissapearance in Hanoi 

A newborn at the Hanoi-based National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where an infant went missing on November 3. The family of a newborn who went missing in a Hanoi-based hospital last week has proposed related agencies to press charges against the hospital’s health workers, VnExpress reported Monday. In his letter to the capital’s police [...]

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Infant goes missing in Hanoi’s hospital 

November 4, 2011
Infant goes missing in Hanoi’s hospital 

A file photo of newborns in Hanoi-based National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology. An infant went missing at the Hanoi-based National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology on Thursday, allegedly kidnapped by a woman posing as a health worker. According to Tran Thi Thom, 34, the baby’s mother, at around 10.30 a.m. on November 3, a woman [...]

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'Weirdo' hip hop trio hit Hanoi 

September 26, 2011
'Weirdo' hip hop trio hit Hanoi 

US hip-hop artist Busdriver “The Weirdo Heroes Tour”, a hip-hop performance by three of the brightest stars in the US will rock Hanoi for the first time on Oct 28.   According to a press release from the organizer, Hanoi-based C.A.M.A. collective, the event will feature acclaimed Los Angeles-based rhymer Busdriver, New York alt-rap superstar Louis Logic and [...]

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Mobile phone spammers busted in Hanoi 

April 27, 2011
Mobile phone spammers busted in Hanoi 

  Investigators from the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications Tuesday busted a Hanoi-based company spamming thousands of mobile phones with advertisements.   During the raid, conducted in cooperation with Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team, investigators found that EMOBI Joint-stock Company in Dong Da District used software to send fortune-telling and gambling related spam messages [...]

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Strong reception for Vietnamese mobile phones 

February 28, 2011
Strong reception for Vietnamese mobile phones 

A cyclo driver talks on a cell phone in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Local cell phone brands targetting the lower-end market segment are doing well in Vietnam. Business is blooming for local cell phone brands targeting the lower-end market segment. Handset retailers said cell phones priced at more than VND6 million (US$280) only account [...]

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Vietcombank 2010 gross profit rises 8 pct: CEO 

January 29, 2011
Vietcombank 2010 gross profit rises 8 pct: CEO 

  Vietcombank , Vietnam’s second-largest partly private lender by assets, said gross profit rose 8 percent last year to more than VND5.4 trillion, beating its projection. Total assets rose 20.3 percent to VND306.86 trillion, and loans jumped 24.9 percent to more than VND175 trillion, Chief Executive Nguyen Phuoc Thanh wrote in a report published on [...]

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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...