Lookatvietnam – Seventy per cent of pre-construction work on the Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien metro project’s depot in HCM City has been completed. The metro’s 19.7km route has been designated to run from the Ben Thanh Market in District 1, along the Dien Bien Phu Street in Binh Thanh District and the Ha Noi [...]
The Vietnam Waterway Administration said that there are around 2,300 piers in the country but nearly 1,000 fail to meet conditions for being licenced; meanwhile, the VND900 billion ($52.9 million) project to ensure the safety of piers has not been implemented yet. Ministry of Transportation inspectors started checking piers on Tuesday to verify the above [...]
Lookatvietnam – Hospitals across the country treated and gave first aid to nearly 30,000 victims of accidents during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival; half of them were affected by traffic accidents, according to the Ministry of Health. Lookatvietnam – Hospitals across the country treated and gave first aid to nearly 30,000 victims of accidents [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – While businesses can give hundreds of thousands to millions of VND in Tet bonuses to their labourers, nearly 1mil teachers in nursery and general schools won’t receive Tet bonuses. Nhan has sent a letter to leaders of provincial and municipal localities, asking for help for the nearly 1mil teachers who aren’t scheduled [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – According to Facebook’s statistics for the fourth quarter of 2008, posted on Techno/Marketer, one of the leading blogs on marketing, nearly 40,000 Vietnamese people are using Facebook. VietNamNet Bridge – According to Facebook’s statistics for the fourth quarter of 2008, posted on Techno/Marketer, one of the leading blogs on marketing, nearly 40,000 [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – In the current situation, the volume of blood in the blood bank is not enough for hospitals within one day, reported the Director of the Central Hematology and Blood Transfusion Institute, Nguyen Anh Tri. Young people donated blood in HCM City. The Institute is supplying blood for more than 60 hospitals in 16 [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Export turnover in 2008 reached nearly US$63 billion, an increase of 29.5 per cent over last year despite the global economic downturn, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). Apparel exports followed with $9.1 billion, up 17.5 per cent over last year.However, the GSO said if there had been no re-exporting of [...]
Gold dropped more than 2 percent in thin volumes Friday as the euro lost ground against the dollar and bullion’s recent rally slowed the pace of physical purchases, traders and analysts said. Spot gold fell to US$833.70 an ounce by 11:16 GMT, against $852.15 an ounce late in New York on Thursday. It had traded [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Since early this year, Hoi An City has received nearly 450,000 tourists, including more than 320,000 foreigners, earning VND28 billion from selling visiting tickets. VietNamNet Bridge – Since early this year, Hoi An City known as a World Culture Heritage Site in the central province of Quang Nam has received nearly 450,000 [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City police on December 12 raided two massage centres named Tan Hoang Phat in Thu Duc district and rescued 80 girls in this disguised brothel. Nearly 100 rural girls were rescued from massage centres owned by a couple named Yen and Tri in HCM City. The two massage centres were owned by [...]
