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China declares highest level of emergency for worst drought in 50 years

China raised the drought emergency class Thursday from level two to level one, the highest alert, in response to the worst drought to hit northern China in half a century, according to a State Council meeting. People irrigate the wheat field at Xiaolu Village in Yuzhou, a city in central China’s Henan Province, on Feb. 4, 2009. Henan, China’s major... Read more

Measles epidemic shows no sign of abating in Hanoi

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of people infected with measles continues to increase in Hanoi, mainly among students and pupils.According to Dr Do Si Hien, chairman of the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI), the increase in the number of adults infected with measles is normal in those countries including Vietnam, which have implemented a measles... Read more

VN to import 1.2mil tonnes of fertiliser

Lookatvietnam – Viet Nam will need to import roughly 750,000 tonnes of urea and 450,000-500,000 tonnes of potassium diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertiliser in 2009 to meet local demand. The country will have to import at least 500,000 tonnes of fertilisers annually until 2010 and may only stop importing by 2020.The country’s demand for fertilisers this... Read more

A lot of garment companies face shutting down

Many garment companies may have to shut down, leading to tens of thousands of jobs to be cut as they have been facing difficulties from both the domestic and export markets. The month of Tet was considered the right time for garment companies to boost sales to earn money. However, the statistics released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade showed that the... Read more

Exhibition of Vietnamese temples in Rotterdam

VietNamNet Bridge - Besides introducing the movies Moon in the Bottom of Well t the Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands from January 20 to February 2, director Nguyen Vinh Son organized a small exhibition about Vietnam’s temples at the request of the festival organizers. The organizing board proposed the exhibition because a temple was used... Read more

LCD TVs to see price decreases by the end of February

Though the shelves for LCD TVs remain empty as people rushed to purchase TVs before Tet, major electronics distributors all said that the supplies will become more profuse by the end of February at the latest. The distributors said that the prices of LCD TVs will drop by 10-15% by the end of February, to around VND 8-8.5 million ($531) per 32 inch HD Ready... Read more

Desperately seeking translators of Vietnamese literature

Books by Nguyen Ngoc Tu, Nguyen Nhat Anh and Nguyen Ngoc Thuan continue to attract readers. Some books have been proposed for translation into foreign languages for export. Yet, it is difficult to find qualified translators. Writer Nguyen Ngoc Tu and one of her books. In late 2008, Tre Publishing House was ordered to publish more book titles by writer Son... Read more

Distributors reported decreases of Tet sales

The majority of trade companies have reported the decreases in 2009 Tet sales in comparison with the last year, since the purchasing power has decreased sharply by 20-30%. The majority of trade companies have reported the decreases in 2009 Tet sales The information was confirmed by the Domestic Market Policy Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade... Read more

Test of locally-made H5N1 vaccine continues

Vietnamese scientists is going to conduct the second testing phase of locally-made H5N1 vaccine on human, said an official Wednesday.  The first phase of testing on volunteers was reported successfully and the Health Ministry approved the second phase of testing on human, announced the Chairman of the Military Epidemiology Faculty, the Army Medical Institute,... Read more

Vietnam to ship 1.5 million tons of rice to the Philippines

Vietnam expects to export 1.5 million tons of rice this year to the Philippines, the government said Wednesday, in its first confirmation of the size of a massive deal that boosted export quotations. The pact, accounting for 30 percent of Vietnam’s projected export volume this year, would fill the annual grain... Read more

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