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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August 9, 2011
50 years after the US began spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam and 36 years after the end of the war, victims suffer as realpolitik considerations offer faint glimmers of hope Teacher Nguyen Ngoc Phuong (C), 31, an Agent Orange victim, walks among other victims during a lesson at a hospice in Vietnam’s Da Nang [...]
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July 31, 2011
Anti-corruption advocates and international experts hope a new president and National Assembly will get tough on graft and economic problems A boy walks with water buffaloes in Lao Cai Province’s Sapa District in northwest Vietnam. Anti-corruption advocates and international analysts hope that Vietnam’s new leadership will get tough on graft and economic problems. Le [...]
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February 20, 2011
Experts still divided on ways to treat turtle too old and special for conservation efforts The badly injured giant soft-shell turtle living in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake, pictured here on February 8, is said to be one of four remaining Rafetus swinhoei specimens in the world. The photograph has initiated a new round of [...]
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January 10, 2011
New wounds open old fears about survival of legendary Hoan Kiem Lake turtle This photo taken on December 30 shows new injuries on the neck of the Hoan Kiem Lake turtle, according to Ha Dinh Duc, who has kept a close watch on the conditions of the giant soft-shell species since 1991 Vietnam’s only [...]
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December 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Doan Nguyen Duc says he’s sure he’ll become the first ever Vietnamese dollar – billionaire next year. The chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company (HAG) has maintained his top position on the list of the ten richest Vietnamese citizens for the second year in a row, according to rankings by [...]
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November 25, 2009
Hoang Anh Gia Lai club’s chairman Doan Nguyen Duc said he would “protest to the end and be the winner,” over new V League rules on foreign footballers. LookAtVietnam – Hoang Anh Gia Lai club’s chairman Doan Nguyen Duc has said he will “protest to the end and be the winner,” over new V League rules on [...]
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June 24, 2009
Photographer Nguyen The Duc, 38, from the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, has recently won silver medals at the Hong Kong and Macau international photo contests. “Young Girl with ruou can” by Nguyen The Duc. (ruou can is a special wine of the highlanders). Duc’s “Old woman and her grandchild” (featuring a Bana ethnic minority [...]
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