January 11, 2012
Tyra Banks (L) and winner of Vietnam Next Top Model 2011 Hoang Thi Thuy. Photo: Nguyen Truong Hoang Thi Thuy, one of the two skinniest contestants in Vietnam Next Top Model’s second season, became the winner in the finale held on January 8 in Ho Chi Minh City. After a five-month-long competition, Thuy defeated [...]
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November 16, 2011
Asia Development Bank on Thursday signed a contract to fund US$190 million to develop a university in Hanoi that follows an international model. Â The project to build a state-of-the-art Hanoi University of Science and Technology is scheduled to be implemented between the beginning of 2012 until the end of 2017. Â Tomoyuki Kimura, [...]
Tags: model, Model University, New Model, New Model University, project, The project, The school, university, Vietnam
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November 14, 2011
Workers at a ship yard of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group, or Vinashin. Many in Vietnam hope the government will pursue reforms that are broad enough and deep enough to fix debt-ridden state banks and rein in inefficient state enterprises (SOEs) such as Vinashin, which embarrassingly defaulted last year. After four years of economic instability, [...]
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November 12, 2011
A Vietnamese model and businesswoman in the UK will meet with Hanoi college students Tuesday, November 15, during her first visit home after eight years, according to her company’s press release.  Jessica Minh Anh arrived at Hanoi on Thursday and will meet with students from Hanoi University and Hanoi Science and Technology University. She [...]
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October 31, 2011
The poverty of the male modeling industry forces many into prostitution Male models say they usually have 30-50 percent of their payment taken by the modeling company that recommended them to the show. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre newspaper. Hoang Phi quit his job working at a Mekong Delta television station to enroll in [...]
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October 29, 2011
Club owners at a meeting early this month. Football club owners want the country’s top-tier V-League and second-tier First Division to be managed by a joint stock company rather than a limited liability one. The club owners strongly disagree with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism who want [...]
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August 20, 2011
The new season of the hit show is warming, or that is, heating up with a new set of judges and a thousand would-be supermodels competing fiercely The judges for this year competition: (L-R) Make-up artist Nam Trung, model Xuan Lan, designer Do Manh Cuong and photographer Pham Hoai Nam Hundreds of young women [...]
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July 27, 2011
A monitor showing the first ultra high-energy collisions is seen at the CMS experiment control room of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2010 near Geneva. Experiments at the world’s biggest atom smasher have yielded tantalizing hints that a long-sought sub-atomic particle truly exists, with final proof likely by late 2012, physicists said [...]
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June 4, 2011
Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. The [...]
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May 23, 2011
Heather Marks did not wear a pair of wings at the fifth annual fashion show Dem hoi chan dai (Leggy night), but she still managed to be the angel of the evening. Scores of the sexiest local models took to the catwalk on May 15 at Ho Chi Minh City’s Ocean Club. Local female [...]
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