January 18, 2012
New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]
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December 25, 2011
After years of sky-rocketing credit growth to finance development, Vietnam’s banking system is now weighed down by toxic loans that have forced the communist nation to launch tough reforms. The Southeast Asian country’s financial sector consists of about a hundred banks — either state-owned, private or foreign bank branches. But most have only limited [...]
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October 31, 2011
The poverty of the male modeling industry forces many into prostitution Male models say they usually have 30-50 percent of their payment taken by the modeling company that recommended them to the show. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre newspaper. Hoang Phi quit his job working at a Mekong Delta television station to enroll in [...]
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October 21, 2011
An underground war bunker has been uncovered at Hanoi’s landmark Metropole Hotel Construction workers at Hanoi’s landmark Metropole Hotel have uncovered an underground war bunker that American folk singer Joan Baez took cover in as her countrymen bombed the capital city. While upgrading a hotel bar in August, the workers found ghostly remnants of those [...]
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October 11, 2011
 Nguyen Thi Lanh, 106, and her youngest daughter, 71, from HCMC’s District 12. She and her husband, Huynh Van Lac, 110, have been certified by Vietnam Records Book as the country’s oldest couple. Huynh Thi Hoa, 71, says that ever since her parents reached the age of 90, during every Tet Festival their home [...]
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January 23, 2010
SGGP reporters recently left bustling Ho Chi Minh City for Bao Loc – a town in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong – for a visit to Bat Nha monastery. Bat Nha monastery located near Bao Loc town in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong (Photo: SGGP)We were enjoying the peaceful and poetic [...]
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December 9, 2009
President Triet begins visit to Italy; PM urges increasing high-quality lawyers for integration; Vietnam supports reconstruction process in Cote d’Ivoire; President meets with Amway Corp. chairman President Triet begins visit to ItalyPresident Nguyen Minh Triet left Hanoi on December 9, beginning his four-day official visit to Italy at the invitation of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.During his [...]
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November 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The second stimulus package, via a banking rate subsidy programme, could further exacerbate banks’ funding shortages. “With the first bank rate subsidy programme, the banking system has been facing a fund scarcity. Now the second is coming, it is hard to imagine how the system will cope,” said a Vietinbank official.The interbank market, [...]
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October 31, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam has fortified its economy in 2009 through effective economic stimulus measures and is looking at some ambitious socio-economic targets for 2010. Many enterprises have prospered during the global economic downturn, while many regional competitors have struggledMany enterprises have prospered during the global economic downturn, while many regional competitors have struggled This year [...]
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August 30, 2009
Vietnam’s shrinking agricultural land has raised concerns amongst the public. Can the situation be improved by the government’s iron hand? LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s shrinking agricultural land has raised concerns amongst the public and international organisations. Can the situation be improved by the government’s iron hand? It was 3.30am when Nguyen Thi Tra woke up. Though [...]
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