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Huong Giang misses out in top five face list

February 3, 2010  . Filed under Lifestyle, News

Huong Giang misses out in top five face list

Vietnamese beauty Huong Giang has missed out on being among the top five girls who have the most beautiful faces of 2009 on website Global Beauties. Vietnam’s Huong Giang. The biggest surprise is the absence of all top winners at international beauty pageants like Rachel Finch, third place at Miss Universe 2009 and Perla Beltran, the first runner-up... Read more

Huong Giang refuses to attend “Top Asian Model”

February 2, 2010  . Filed under Lifestyle, News

Huong Giang refuses to attend “Top Asian Model”

Vietnamese contestant at the Miss World 2009, Tran Huong Giang, was one of five nominees for the Top Asian Model competition in China, but is unable to participate.  According to Elite Vietnam, Huong Giang is the only Vietnamese model entered in the final round of the Top Asian Model. This is one of the titles of the first Fashion Asia Awards organized with... Read more

Huong Giang enters top 15 faces

January 29, 2010  . Filed under Lifestyle, News

Huong Giang enters top 15 faces

The Vietnamese beauty continues to move into the next round of the “Face of the Year” selection on the famous website on beauty pageants, Global Beauties.  The top 15 faces are chosen by a jury of over 30 members, but Huong Giang took the lead already in the number of reader votes, accounting for 66 percent, compared to 7% for the second place... Read more

Huong Giang in top 25 faces of the year

January 27, 2010  . Filed under Lifestyle, News

Huong Giang in top 25 faces of the year

Vietnam’s contestant at the Miss World 2009 pageant Tran Thi Huong Giang entered the second round of the Face of the Year selection on the website Global Beauties.  Before competing for the Face of the Year title, Huong Giang was voted as the “Sexiest by Popular Demand” by readers of Global Beauties, a prestigious website on international... Read more

Vietnam needs $39.6 bln for social welfare programs by 2020

January 27, 2010  . Filed under News, Social

Vietnam plans to spend some VND732 trillion (US$39.6 billion) on a social welfare plan between 2011-2020, said Nguyen Lan Huong, who is in charge of making the plan, said in a recent interview. The plan targeted different objectives, including developing social insurance system and having 100 percent of population get health insurance by 2014, according... Read more

Vietnamese Song Award 2009 goes to northern songwriter

January 25, 2010  . Filed under Lifestyle, News

Vietnamese Song Award 2009 goes to northern songwriter

Nguyen Xinh Xo, 32, won the Vietnamese Song Award 2009 at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 24 for his song “Dong Ho Treo Tuong” or “Clock”. Singer Tung Duong received the award for Nguyen Xinh Xo. Studying business administration in the US, Nguyen Xinh Xo has been known as a talented songwriter since his cooperation with diva Ha Tran... Read more

Artist expresses multiple sides of people, life

January 24, 2010  . Filed under Lifestyle, News

Artist expresses multiple sides of people, life

In the oil-on-canvas The Balcony and Lotuses, Tin juxtaposes modern and traditional Vietnamese women. LookAtVietnam - Artist Nguyen Trung Tin’s work has been appreciated by art lovers for nearly 40 years for capturing the beauty of Viet Nam and its people.The talent of the 54-year-old painter, who is the deputy director of the HCM City Fine Arts College,... Read more

Foreign bosses flee after bad year, leaving workers unpaid

January 24, 2010  . Filed under News, Social

Foreign bosses flee after bad year, leaving workers unpaid

Workers at a Malaysian firm in Ho Chi Minh City wait after their boss left Vietnam while still owing them VND100million Pham Thi Trinh, a leather shoe worker in the southern province of Binh Duong, has been at home without work or pay for three months after her South Korean bosses suddenly disappeared towards the end of last year. ... Read more

Pot Luck

January 23, 2010  . Filed under Lifestyle, News

Pot Luck

A makeshift wholesale market on the outskirts of Hanoi is the place to go for cheap ceramics, unless it’s the week before Tet. The pottery market trades wares from the main traditional pottery villages in northern Vietnam Leaving behind the noisy streets of Hanoi capital city, I drive down a dusty road alongside the Red River. On one side of the road I... Read more

Gov’t shouldn’t charge poor for healthcare: official

January 23, 2010  . Filed under Uncategorized

Gov’t shouldn’t charge poor for healthcare: official

Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance Office Cao Van Sang has said he disapproves of poor patients having to pay for medical care. Cao Van Sang, director of the Ho Chi Minh City Insurance Company expresses his disapproval of insured patients co-pay treatment feeUnder the new regulations, which took effect January 1, disadvantaged patients are required... Read more

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