January 11, 2012
 A man works at a steel factory in Que Vo District, outside Hanoi . Many companies in Vietnam are facing higher operation costs and lower profits. An annual report that ranks Vietnam’s 500 largest companies based on revenues, profit, growth rate, assets, and number of employees shows that returns are declining for private companies. [...]
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November 17, 2011
A part of Dung Quat oil refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai. The refinery is the mainstay of the Dung Quat Economic Zone. Coastal economic zones have developed strength in numbers, but failed to pull their weight. They are characterized by sluggish development, low occupancy rates, modest investments and very small contribution [...]
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August 13, 2011
Vietnam People's Navy Commander Nguyen Van Hien. The Vietnamese navy is upgrading its capacity with more advanced equipment and devices with peaceful intentions in protecting the country’s sovereignty, Commander Nguyen Van Hien, also deputy minister of the Ministry of Defense, told Thanh Nien. Â Â How do you assess the Vietnam People’s Navy’s current determination and [...]
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August 4, 2011
PetroVietnam has launched the 2011 licensing round for nine oil and gas blocks offshore Vietnam, the first since 2007 and the most in recent years, while Vietsovpetro will boost investments, as the country works on reversing declining output and exports. Vietnam, a net oil exporter and Southeast Asia’s third-largest producer, has been facing falling [...]
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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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December 1, 2009
NA Chairman receives AIPA delegates; Polish Agriculture Minister visits Vietnam; PM pledges contributions to climate change conference; Politics academy opens Chinese-funded dormitory NA Chairman receives AIPA delegatesNational Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong on November 30 received delegates from the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) who have been in Hanoi for a conference to discuss female parliamentarians’ [...]
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December 1, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The architectural character of Ho Chi Minh City lacks coherence, creativity and a specific identity of its own, experts said at a meeting held last week. An ageing tenement in HCM City’s District 10 is in a dangerous state of disrepair.They noted that as in other big cities in Viet Nam, HCM City [...]
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November 26, 2009
Nobel laureate calls on students to combat HIV/AIDS; Vietnam to host 46th Int’l Chemistry Olympiad; Int’l Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Conference and Expo opens in Hanoi; All urban areas to have clean water by 2025 Nobel laureate calls on students to combat HIV/AIDSFrench virologist and 2008 Nobel laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi on November 24 called on students in Ho [...]
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November 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Eco-friendly and economically beneficial farming methods in the Mekong Delta is leading the way to more sustainable rural development.The sun is blazing down but Vo Thi Nhieu and her husband are absorbed in consolidating the levees to prepare their newly harvested rice field for the upcoming shrimp crop.The work is harder than usual [...]
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October 12, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The country’s education sector is aiming to simplify examinations, fight corruption and avoid “achievement disease”, According to Tran Van Nghia, deputy head of the ministry’s Department for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment, a number of legal documents needed to be modified to implement the Government’s education reforms.However, Nghia said parents and students would [...]
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