Posts Tagged ‘ In Previous Years ’

Universities blame education ministry for student enrolment problems

October 2, 2009
Universities blame education ministry for student enrolment problems

VietNamNet Bridge – Universities suffering difficulties enrolling students are blaming required entrance standards set by Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). For Nguyen Huu Kieu, head of the training division at the Luong The Vinh University, the MOET-set minimum standard is proving to be difficult to work with. He explains: “Everything went smoothly in the last [...]

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Mooncake makers focus on cheaper products in struggling economy

September 21, 2009
Mooncake makers focus on cheaper products in struggling economy

Mooncake makers have switched their focus to medium-priced cakes this Mid-Autumn festival as consumers are still in a belt-tightening mode, market observers say. Le Phung Hao, deputy general director of Kinh Do Corp., one of the country’s biggest mooncake producers, said his company mainly produced medium-priced mooncakes this year, offering its boxes of four to [...]

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Furniture exporters fight to master challenge of recession

September 1, 2009
Furniture exporters fight to master challenge of recession

LookAtVietnam – Many wooden furniture makers are struggling to survive, producing below capacity because of a sharp fall in export prices. VnEconomy reports that the global recession is testing the competitive ability of Vietnam’s furniture industry.  Tightened US safety standards and lower tolerance for defects add to the pressure.. Vietnam’s General Statistics Office says woodwork exports [...]

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Hanoi: some schools deserted, others overcrowded

August 3, 2009
Hanoi: some schools deserted, others overcrowded

Some schools are so overcrowded that they have 60 students in every class, while others are still looking to enroll more students. What’s more – these two types of schools are often located in the same area. Van Phuc Primary School in Ba Dinh districtThe enrolment of students into schools should have finished by the [...]

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Battling textile industries optimistic

June 15, 2009
Battling textile industries optimistic

A worker joins a production line in a garment company in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. Some Vietnamese garment and textile companies still receive export orders despite the world economic recession.VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s garment and textile companies are encouraged by forward export orders after export turnover reached its lowest growth rate, 2 per [...]

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Vocational schools, the new choice for high school graduates

April 13, 2009
Vocational schools, the new choice for high school graduates

High school graduates, while choosing universities to register to take exams for, have also chosen vocational schools to learn, if they fail the university entrance exams. The application for vocational schools proves to be a new tendency this year, while this was not the choice of many students in previous years. The students, who failed [...]

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Bottom drops out of cassava market

March 29, 2009
Bottom drops out of cassava market

At present, Viet Nam has an estimated 510,000ha under cassava, but it is hoped to reduce this to 375,000ha by next year.LookAtVietnam – A 50 per cent fall in the price of cassava this year has affected many farmers who started to grow the crop when prices leapt in 2007.Last year the farmgate price of [...]

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Trade fairs and exhibitions cannot lure customers

March 12, 2009
Trade fairs and exhibitions cannot lure customers

The number of visitors to the 2009 Tet trade fair decreased by 1/3 over the previous year, which has made trade fair organizers fear that trade fairs and exhibitions will have few visitors this year. The Giang Vo Trade Fair Centre in Hanoi plans to have 31 trade fairs this year, while it had only [...]

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Country students revise for their exams at home to avoid ‘price storm’

March 5, 2009
Country students revise for their exams at home to avoid ‘price storm’

In the times of the ‘price storm’, when the extra classes’ fees and subsistence expenses are escalating, a lot of students have decided to revise for exams themselves, instead of going to extra classes. Manh has decided to revise for exams himself, instead of going to extra classes“If I go to Hanoi to attend preparatory [...]

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‘Hot’ study branch graduates find it difficult to get jobs

February 27, 2009
‘Hot’ study branch graduates find it difficult to get jobs

Since the beginning of 2009, only a few businesses have contacted economics and technology universities to ask for help in their recruitment plans. In general, the recruitment market is now very gloomy. At the same time in previous years, the Banking Institute, which has very hot study branches, was busy organizing job workshops and recruitment [...]

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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...