December 20, 2011
No disciplinary measures taken after civil aviation authority finds national carrier breached its own procedures and regulations A Vietnam Airlines aircraft taxiing at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport. The national flag carrier has broken its own rules in hiring foreign pilots, an inquiry has found. National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has been breaking its [...]
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December 12, 2011
The World Health Organization describes primitive cooking stoves as the world’s top environmental killer On Thanksgiving, we cook and, if we’re doing it right, we give sincere thanks for being alive. But we rarely think of how the two really interact. We don’t recognize that in many parts of the world, cooking provides not [...]
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November 19, 2011
Shakespeare’s classic tragedy fails to win local hearts and minds The sound wasn’t great; voices were sometimes hushed and the words and music muddled together. And if the Old-English wasn’t difficult enough for local Vietnamese audiences to understand – native English speakers often don’t understand it – the poor audio system at the Ho [...]
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November 15, 2011
 Several economists are saying the government should not commit itself to any gross domestic product target, adding economic growth cannot be a forced process. Vietnam should just follow other countries and release regular economic forecasts instead, they suggest. Vu Quang Viet, who has worked with the United Nations Statistical Division, said GDP growth [...]
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November 14, 2011
What’s wrong with Ec 10? The dozens of Harvard University undergrads who walked out of the school’s famous introductory economics course this month think they know. The students’ general criticism is that Ec 10, in which some 700 students are enrolled, “espouses a specific — and limited — view of economics.” Their specific criticisms [...]
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October 15, 2011
Unprecedented move against Chinese contractor not easy, but ‘wise’, local firm says Vietnam’s state-owned Construction Corporation No.1 has decided to end its contract with a Chinese supplier due to poor performance at a major hydropower project in the Central Highlands. Beijing IWHR Corporation was terminated from the contract to supply and install the main [...]
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October 7, 2011
The fast and furious take over city streets throughout Traffic Safety Month An illegal racer performs tricks on Ho Chi Minh City’s Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Street. The central government is looking to crack down on street racing in the country’s biggest cities. The Ho Chi Minh City municipal administration has asked the central [...]
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September 25, 2011
About two weeks before the new school year started, at least 17 children drowned in rivers, lakes and construction pits across the country. The latest incident was reported in Hanoi, where six children, all 12, drowned when their boat capsized in the Red River on September 2. Although two big rivers, the Red and [...]
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September 24, 2011
Workers clean the Keangnam residence tower in Hanoi September 20, 2011. Like many hoping for easy cash in Vietnam’s property market, Nguyen Thu Huong borrowed VND500 million ($24,000) from a bank in April to buy a new flat she didn’t need and planned to flip. The only question, she thought, was how big the [...]
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September 10, 2011
A young woman (C) reads exam materials as she leaves with others after taking part in a college admission test in Hanoi on July 5, 2011. In Vietnam, it is the mother of all battles that is fought year after year: more than close to a million or more students sit for their university entrance [...]
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