Posts Tagged ‘ Saigon Tiep ’

Do hot pots melt contact lenses? 

January 9, 2012
Do hot pots melt contact lenses? 

People wearing refractive glasses, especially contact lenses, are always warned by doctors to stay away from fire and heat. Rumors about a Taiwanese man wearing contact lenses being hospitalized with eye trauma after eating hot pot – the steam apparently melted the lenses – has prompted Vietnamese doctors to warn about the poor awareness of [...]

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A diva’s homecoming 

September 27, 2011
A diva’s homecoming 

  Tran Thu Ha’s three new albums and poetry collection traverse the personal and the political, revealing a dynamism rarely found in young artists Ha Tran posed with a fan and her first book of poetry Thap ky yeu at Phuong Nam Bookstore in Ho Chi Minh City For 34-year-old singer Tran Thu Ha, releasing [...]

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Authorities dismiss treasure hunter's claims in northern Vietnam 

July 30, 2011
Authorities dismiss treasure hunter's claims in northern Vietnam 

Nguyen Hong Cong, 60, has hunted a royal treasure over the past 30 years in the northern province of Quang Binh. Local authorities have said there is no treasure to be found. Authorities in the northern province of Quang Binh Wednesday officially dismissed the possibility of a royal treasure being found by a man who [...]

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HCMC schools lack resources to relocate 

November 9, 2010
HCMC schools lack resources to relocate 

The Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics faces serious difficulties in moving to the outskirts as ordered by the municipal authorities. Universities in Ho Chi Minh City are facing difficulties in moving to the outskirts from downtown areas as ordered by municipal authorities in 2006, local newspaper Saigon Tiep Thi reported Monday. Â According [...]

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Scandal-ridden Czech writer to visit Vietnam

December 28, 2009
Scandal-ridden Czech writer to visit Vietnam

Jan Cempirek has become famous in Czech after he was revealed as the author of White Horse, Yellow Dragon, which had won a prestigious annual award under the name of a Vietnamese girl. Writer Jan Cempirek and the Vietnamese girl who played Pham Thi Lan in the video clip sent to the jury of the [...]

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SBV threatens black market

December 7, 2009
SBV threatens black market

VietNamNet Bridge – SBV has announced that it will take “drastic measures” put a halt to illegal foreign currency trading, which affects the foreign currency market. In an interview with Lao Dong newspaper, Director of the Foreign Exchange Management Department under SBV, Nguyen Quang Huy, maintained that while the trading volume on the black market [...]

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Rice price to rise as Vietnam wins Philippines export prize

November 24, 2009
Rice price to rise as Vietnam wins Philippines export prize

LookAtVietnam – Vinafood 2 won a bid to export 150,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines, which, analysts believe it will push up export rice prices. According to Saigon Tiep Thi, Vinafood 2 won the rice exporting contract at the relatively high price of $480 per tonne – much higher than previous deals.  Therefore, Agroinfo, [...]

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Expats say it’s smart to buy made-in-Vietnam

November 18, 2009
Expats say it’s smart to buy made-in-Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – A mini-survey reveals that expats have found many Vietnamese goods to be good values.  Since July, when a Politburo resolution called on consumers to buy goods made in Vietnam, newspapers have been ruminating on why many Vietnamese seem to favor foreign brands.  Now Saigon Tiep Thi, a business paper, has reported on [...]

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Taming beasts for Saigon’s tables

October 28, 2009
Taming beasts for Saigon’s tables

LookAtVietnam – Weasels and porcupines, wild boar and pythons and crocodiles are now being farm-raised near HCM City. As expensive as if they were shot in the forest Nguyen Van Ky’s wild boar farm on the southern fringe of HCM City is always full of visitors, according to recent story in Saigon Tiep Thi.  The visitors [...]

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The so-called ‘dirty meat’ – why does it end up in Vietnam?

October 20, 2009
The so-called ‘dirty meat’ – why does it end up in Vietnam?

LookAtVietnam – The Veterinary Agency’s office in HCM City has stopped a number of shipments of American chicken on suspicion that it’s been refused entry to other countries. The papers accompanying some recent shipments of meat to Vietnam say that their destination is Russia and China, but these have somehow reached our ports.  That’s not [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...