January 9, 2012
 Street vendors ply their goods in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The Asian Development Bank has lowered Vietnam’s economic growth forecast in 2012 to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent forecast last September. With the world economy remaining mired in difficulty, the Asian Development Bank forecasts a difficult year ahead for Vietnam. However, it [...]
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December 6, 2011
Gymnast Pham Phuoc Hung is expected to win 2012 Olympic berths for Vietnam Vietnam has halved its target for Olympic berths in London next year to 10 after reconsidering its athletes’ qualifying chances. According to Hoang Vinh Giang, vice chairman and general secretary of the Vietnamese Olympic Committee, Vietnam has won five berths through badminton [...]
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November 23, 2011
Poster of Hanoi Dreams Exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Five well-established Hanoian artists will introduce their "Hanoi Dreams," a debut group exhibition, to Canadian art-lovers from Nov 22 to Dec 5. The exhibition marks the Canadian debut for all five emerging and established artists: Trinh Quoc Chien, Vu Huong Quynh, Nguyen Minh Thanh, Ngo Van Sac, [...]
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July 23, 2011
Almost 500 competitors from 12 countries and territories will participate in the 9th International Taekwondo Club Competition in Ho Chi Minh City July 22-24. The Asian Taekwondo Federation will inspect the meet as it considers granting Ho Chi Minh City the right to host the Asian Taekwondo Championships in April 2012, organizers announced at [...]
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May 16, 2011
Hoang Thi Bao Tram won the Asian Blitz Chess Championship, in Iran, on Wednesday. The female master came into the win on the heels of a defeat at the Asian Individual Women Chess Championship which ended Tuesday – also in Iran. In the first game, Tram (ELO 2325) upset China’s chess prodigy Hou Yifan, [...]
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May 14, 2011
ruong Thanh Hang (L) and Vu Thi Huong are training hard to qualify for the 2012 Olympics in London. The Vietnam Athletics Federation has set a goal for the country’s leading athletes, Vu Thi Huong and Tr Æ°Æ¡ ng Thanh Hang to win gold medals at the Asian Athletics Championships in Japan in July. Of [...]
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May 8, 2011
The ninth Dep fashion show won the Asian Top Fashionable Contest of the Year. The ninth Dep fashion show “Dreaming” won the Asian Top Fashionable Contest of the Year. The award was given at the second Fashion Asian Award (FAA 2010) in Dalian city, China on April 29. Launched by Vietnam Pictorial’s publication Dep magazine, [...]
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May 6, 2011
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Vietnam sign a loan package during the annual ADB meeting in Hanoi The Asian Development Bank and the State Bank of Vietnam on Thursday signed a US$1.38 billion financial assistance package to enhance the country’s clean water access, conserve threatened forests and ease traffic gridlock. The total cost of [...]
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May 6, 2011
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung talks at the meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Hanoi Thursday Despite its economic achievements, Vietnam is still poor and hopes to receive more international support, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) meeting in Hanoi Thursday. Â At the opening session of the [...]
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May 4, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai speaks at the Vietnam Business Summit during Asia Development Bank's 44th annual meeting in Hanoi on May 3 Vietnam will continue to improve its business environment and fully mobilize domestic and foreign resources as it aims to become an industrialized nation in 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai [...]
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