September 11, 2011
One mother always makes the Mid-Autumn festival specialties herself – and revels in the experience “What kind of lantern will your mother buy for you?” “An electric one, I guess. The candle-lit one could be dangerous. The paper could catch fire. What about you?” “I would also like an electric one, but I don’t [...]
Tags: An Electric One, Autumn, Autumn Festival, Balls, Banh Trung, Banh Trung Thu, Banh Trung Thu Thap, Beans, Before The Festival, Cakes, Caramel, Chi minh, Chi minh city, children, Conversation, Delicious, difficult, Egg Yolk, Electric One, Experience Ldquo, Festival, Fillings, For Banh Trung, For Banh Trung Thu, For Her Relatives, For Her Relatives And, Freshly Baked, friends, From Mooncake Making, Girls, Green Beans, Green Beans And, Her Relatives, Her Relatives And, Her Relatives And Friends, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, Hoang Trinh, Including, Ingredients, Ingredients For Banh, Ingredients For Banh Trung, Into Balls, kinds, Ldquo, makes, Making, Making Banh, Making Banh Trung, Making Banh Trung Thu, Mid Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn, Minh city, months, Months Before The, Months Before The Festival, Moon Cake, Mooncake, Mooncake Making, Mooncakes, More Difficult, Mother, Rdquo, Rdquo Ldquo, Rdquo Trinh, Rdquo Trinh Said, Relatives And Friends, Rolled Into Balls, She Makes, Thanh nien, Thap Cam, The Cake, The Cakes, The Crust, The Crust And, The festival, The Fillings, The Fragrance, The Girls, The Ingredients, The Ingredients For, The Ingredients For Banh, The Latter, The Mooncake, The Oven, Thi Hoang, Thi Hoang Trinh, This year, Thu Thap, Thu Thap Cam, Tran Thi, Tran Thi Hoang, Tran Thi Hoang Trinh, Trinh, Trung, Trung Thu, Trung Thu Thap, Trung Thu Thap Cam, Wheat Flour, Year old, You Rdquo, You Rdquo Ldquo
Posted in Lifestyle | Comments Off
August 14, 2011
Government’s inflation fight will decide short-term future, analysts say Motorcyclists ride past a construction site in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City on August 8. For the first time in two years, land prices have gone down in Hanoi. Perhaps for the first time ever, developers are offering apartments in lieu of cash [...]
Tags: Apartments, Bank loans, capital, Capital Shortage, Chau Said The, Chi minh, Chi minh city, coming, Coming Months, construction, Consumers, Deputy Minister, developers, difficult, Difficulties, estate, Estate Association, Estate Firms, Face Difficulties, firms, first, First Time, For The First, For The First Time, Government, Hanoi, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, In The Coming, In The Second, In The Second Quarter, inflation, Inflation Fight, investors, Ldquo, lending, loans, market, Market Now Depends, Minh city, More Difficult, Now Depends, percent, prices, projects, property, Property Firms, Property Market, quarter, Rdquo, Real Estate Association, Real Estate Firms, real-estate, Second quarter, shortage, situation, supply, Thanh nien, The Coming, The Coming Months, The first, The First Time, The government, The market, The Real, The Real Estate, The second, The second quarter, The Situation, Vietnam
Posted in Business | Comments Off
January 11, 2010
Many enterprises are very worried about rising sugar prices as they prepare for the peak production period of the year with the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival just weeks away. LookAtVietnam – Many enterprises are very worried about rising sugar prices as they prepare for the peak production period of the year with the Tet [...]
Tags: 000 hectares, 000 Tons, 2009 2010, 2009 2010 Crop, 2010 Crop, 25 Percent, 30 Percent, 60 Percent, Allow Firms, company, costs, demand, director, domestic, Domestic Market, ensure, expected, firms, General, General director, Growing, His company, import, In The Domestic, In The Domestic Market, increase, Increase Its Selling, Increase Its Selling Prices, Industry And Trade, Its Selling, Its Selling Prices, kilogram, Ldquo, market, million, Million tons, ministry, month, More Difficult, Of Industry And, Of Industry And Trade, Per kilogram, Per month, percent, Percent Over, Percent Over The, period, price, Price Hike, prices, production, Production costs, products, Profit Rdquo, profits, Rdquo, Said ldquo, selling, Selling Prices, shortage, sugar, Sugar Accounts, Sugar Accounts For, Sugar Price, Sugar Price Hike, Sugar Prices, Sugar Shortage, Sugarcane, supply, Supply From The, Thanh, The 2009, The 2009 2010, The 2009 2010 Crop, The country, The domestic, The Domestic Market, The ministry, The Sugar, The Sugar Price, The Sugar Price Hike, The tet, The world, The world market, Their products, To Allow Firms, To Increase Its, To Increase Its Selling, Vietnam, world, World market
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off
January 9, 2010
Despite the recent hike, sugar prices in the country are not that high compared to the regional market. Many enterprises are very worried about rising sugar prices as they prepare for the peak production period of the year with the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival just weeks away. On December 30, sugar was priced at [...]
Tags: 000 hectares, 000 Tons, 2009 2010, 2009 2010 Crop, 2010 Crop, 25 Percent, 30 Percent, 60 Percent, Allow Firms, Are Not That, Are Not That High, company, costs, Country, Country Are Not, Country Are Not That, demand, Despite The Recent, Despite The Recent Hike, director, domestic, Domestic Market, ensure, expected, firms, General, General director, Growing, High Compared, Hike Sugar, Hike Sugar Prices, His company, import, In The Country, In The Country Are, In The Domestic, In The Domestic Market, increase, Increase Its Selling, Increase Its Selling Prices, Industry And Trade, Its Selling, Its Selling Prices, kilogram, market, million, Million tons, ministry, month, More Difficult, Not That High, Not That High Compared, Of Industry And, Of Industry And Trade, Per kilogram, Per month, percent, Percent Over, Percent Over The, period, price, Price Hike, prices, production, Production costs, products, profits, Recent, Recent Hike, Recent Hike Sugar, Recent Hike Sugar Prices, Regional Market, selling, Selling Prices, shortage, sugar, Sugar Accounts, Sugar Accounts For, Sugar Price, Sugar Price Hike, Sugar Prices, Sugar Shortage, Sugarcane, supply, Supply From The, Thanh, That High Compared, The 2009, The 2009 2010, The 2009 2010 Crop, The country, The Country Are, The Country Are Not, The domestic, The Domestic Market, The ministry, The Recent, The Recent Hike, The Recent Hike Sugar, The Regional, The Regional Market, The Sugar, The Sugar Price, The Sugar Price Hike, The tet, The world, The world market, Their products, To Allow Firms, To Increase Its, To Increase Its Selling, To The Regional, To The Regional Market, Vietnam, world, World market
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off
October 3, 2009
Writing on the wall: A class in progress at the University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City Teacher friendly policies and more effective school management are urgent imperatives, experts say. Vietnamâs education sector is in a crisis, with universities not producing the educated workforce that the nationâs economy and society need.In an âopinionated analysisâ [...]
Tags: 11 Years, 90 Students, According, Adequate, autonomy, Average, Average Monthly, Average Monthly Salary, brain, Brain Drain, Budget, By The State, Central, Central highlands, Chi minh, Chi minh city, Ciecer, college, Cover Living, Cover Living Expenses, difficult, drain, Education, Education And Training, Education System, Education Union, Education Union Said, educational, expenses, family, financial, Financial Autonomy, Government, higher, Higher Education, Higher Education System, Highlands, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, Improving, Improving The Quality, In Higher Education, In Improving The, In Improving The Quality, In The Central, In The Central Highlands, International, International Schools, Last month, Late Last, Late Last Month, lecturers, little, living, Living Expenses, Low Quality Education, Low Remuneration, Low Salaries, Low-quality, management, million, Minh city, Minister, ministry, monthly, Monthly salary, More Difficult, nation, National, Nguyen, Nien Weekly, Of Education And, Of Education And Training, Of Higher Education, Of Low Quality, Of Low Quality Education, Of The Education, Of The Education Union, percent, policies, Private, Private Schools, quality, Quality Education, receive, remuneration, researchers, Run Schools, Salaries, salary, school, schools, spend, state, State budget, State Run Schools, State Universities, students, system, teacher, teachers:, teaching, Thanh, Thanh nien, Thanh Nien Weekly, The Average, The Average Monthly, The Average Monthly Salary, The central, The central highlands, The education, The Education Union, The Education Union Said, The Future, The government, The Government Has, The Low, The Low Remuneration, The Low Salaries, The ministry, The Nation, The national, The Quality, The Researchers, The Researchers Say, The right, The state, Their Teaching, They Receive, They Ve, times, To Cover Living, To Cover Living Expenses, To The Low, training, Union, universities, university, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Higher, Vietnamese Higher Education, Vietnamese Universities, years
Posted in News, Social | Comments Off
October 2, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: applications, choice, difficult, Division, Enroll, Enroll Students, Enroll Students This, Enroll Students This Year, Explains Ldquo, For Students Who, Group Who Take, Group Who Take Mathematics, He Explains, He Explains Ldquo, Hung Vuong, In Previous Years, Last year, Ldquo, lower, Luong The Vinh, Many Universities, marks, More Difficult, Nguyen, Of The Training, Of The Training Division, owned, Owned Universities, percent, Previous years, problems, Rdquo, Required, Required Marks, Required Marks For, Second Choice, state, State Owned Universities, State-owned, students, Students This Year, study:, Take Mathematics, The fact, The Fact That, The Required, The Training, The Training Division, The Vinh, This year, To Enroll Students, To Enroll Students This, Too Many Universities, training, Training Division, universities, university, Who Take Mathematics, years
Posted in Education, News | Comments Off
September 5, 2009
LookAtVietnam - A gentle breeze sways the reeds along the banks of the Lang Giang River. Then, like a dream of bygone days, evocative singing fills the air … (From left) Le Huy Duoc, Le Thi Tî, Le Thi Tran and Nguyen Thi Dung from the Mung Village.LookAtVietnam - A gentle breeze sways the reeds along [...]
Tags: At Mung Temple, banks, boats, Can Says, cannot, Cheo Tho, Cheo Tho Ceremony, difficult, Drum Roll, Festival, Four Acts, Huy Duoc, In Mung Village, Le Huy, Le Huy Duoc, Le Thi, Le Thi Tran, Local, Local people, Long Drum, Long Drum Roll, melodies, More Difficult, Mung Temple, Mung Village, Nguyen thi, Nguyen Thi Dung, Of The Cheo, Of The Cheo Tho, Of The Club, Of The Mung, Of The Mung Temple, On The Banks, people, perform, plays, procession, River, River Procession, sacred, singers, singing, Singing All The, Singing Cheo, Singing Cheo Tho, Songs, Temple, Thanh, The art, The banks, The Cheo, The Cheo Tho, The Club, The Mung, The Mung Temple, The river, The song, The Sound, The village, The Villagers, The Voices, The water, The Youngest, Thi Dung, Thi Tî, Thi Tran, Tho Ceremony, To Hit The, Traditional, Trung, Trung Thanh, Unique, village, villagers, years, Years Old, Young people
Posted in Lifestyle, News | Comments Off
July 27, 2009
More than 90 percent of mathematics exam papers at many universities have reportedly got below average marks. University lecturers have blamed the exam question structure. Checkign information about examsBy July 26, 40 universities across the country had reportedly announced exam marks of examinees. Many of them have reported abnormally low marks for A-group mathematics exam [...]
Tags: 10th And 11th, 10th And 11th Grades, 11th Grades, 12th Grade, 90 Percent, Above Average, Above Average Marks, And 11th Grades, Average, Average Marks, Been Given, Below Average, Below Average Marks, City University, Danh Said That, difficult, Easier Questions, Education, Exam Papers, Exam Questions, Exam Questions Were, Examinees, Five Marks, Five Marks The, Got Below Average, Got Below Average Marks, Got Less Than, Got Less Than Five, Got Zeros, Grade, grades, group, Group Mathematics, Group Questions, Group Questions Should, Has Reported, Have Been Given, Have Reported, Hcm city, Hcm City University, knowledge, Less Than Five, Less Than Five Marks, Low Marks, marks, Mathematics, Mathematics Exam, Mathematics Exam Papers, Mathematics Questions, More Difficult, Of 10th And, Of 10th And 11th, Of 12th Grade, One Mark, Papers, percent, Previous years, question, questions, Questions Blamed, Questions Were Not, reported, Required, Said That The, Said That The Mathematics, structure, students, Than Five, Than Five Marks, Than Five Marks The, That The Mathematics, That The Mathematics Questions, The Exam, The Exam Questions, The hcm, The Hcm City, The Hcm City University, The Knowledge, The Mathematics, The Mathematics Exam, The Mathematics Questions, Thien, Three Marks, universities, university, Unreasonable, Unreasonable Structure, Zeros
Posted in Education, News | Comments Off
May 23, 2009
Trinh Cong Luan does not take things lying down. Struck by polio, he lost use of his legs when he was just a year old. But he did not allow this to rob him of a ânormalâ childhood. Luan joined his friends in all their activities every day.His disability did not even prevent him from [...]
Tags: asked, Athletes, But Luan, Cong Luan, disabled, Disabled Athletes, Disabled Person, District, Every Day, friends, He Was Very, His Friends, His Hands, His Job, His Parents, Labor Order, Labor Order Third, More Difficult, Order Third, passion, Play Football, Sports, Tan Binh, To Play Football, Trinh Cong, Trinh Cong Luan, With His Friends
Posted in News, Sports | Comments Off
May 18, 2009
A woman walks past a furniture display at the Vietnam International Furniture and Home Accessories Fair in Ho Chi Minh City in March. Vietnamese exporters who have been affected by the downturn in international markets say it is more difficult to win hearts of locals than overseas customers. The global economic recession has hindered expansion [...]
Tags: At Home But, company, customers, difficult, domestic, Domestic Market, export, Export Market, Export Oriented, exporters, exports, focus, For Export Oriented, Furniture, Furniture Products, General, General director, High prices, High Quality, International, Its Furniture, Its Furniture Products, Last year, Local, market, markets, More Difficult, percent, prices, production, products, Said The Domestic, Said The Domestic Market, The company, The domestic, The Domestic Market, The global, Their Focus, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Exporters
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off