January 20, 2012
The Tet flower road will return to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City this Friday, highlighted by a giant dragon blowing blooms, as the city starts celebrating the Year of Dragon. With the Lunar New Year starting Monday next week, work to transform Nguyen Hue Street into a street of flowers began on January 10. The 12 meter long, [...]
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November 17, 2011
A part of Dung Quat oil refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai. The refinery is the mainstay of the Dung Quat Economic Zone. Coastal economic zones have developed strength in numbers, but failed to pull their weight. They are characterized by sluggish development, low occupancy rates, modest investments and very small contribution [...]
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August 13, 2011
Tourists use a hanging bridge to cross a river in Bangkok, Thailand A road tour between Vietnam, Laos and Thailand has been attracting more tourists to the countries since a bridge was launched across the Mekong River in December 2006.  But the country that has exploited its potentials most, unsurprisingly, is Thailand, which has for long [...]
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March 12, 2011
Houses swept by a tsunami are seen as residents walk in Kesen Numa, Miyagi prefecture March 12, 2011 Japan scrambled on Saturday to reduce pressure in two nuclear plants damaged after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck its northeast coast probably killing at least 1,300 people. A day after the biggest quake on record in [...]
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December 2, 2009
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved Vietnam’s golf course construction plan to 2020, which scheduled 89 golf courses for the country by 2020. Of this number, 19 golf courses are operating already. Twenty-nine others will locate in the northern part of the central region and the coastal area of the southern part of the central [...]
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October 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Scientists are having to think the unthinkable – that Vietnam could get hit by a tsunami. After the tsunami off Indonesia’s Sumatra island in 2004 which killed over 230,000 people, the Vietnamese government issued two tsunami warnings. Later, in 2007, the Centre for Earthquake and Tsunami Warning was set up. Now, deputy prime [...]
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October 2, 2009
LookAtVietnam – From their treetop perches in the dusk, the black-shanked douc – a type of monkey – look down on two tourist resorts and a new road construction Monkey business: Tam settles down in a lookout to keep an eye out for doucs.Development is putting the squeeze on these amazing animals at aptly named [...]
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July 22, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Construction will start on two roads linking Dong Nai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces in this quarter which once completed will greatly help promote goods transport in the southern focal economic zone, the developer said. National Highway 51 will be widened into six-lane road, while the other expressway will link Bien Hoa city [...]
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July 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The country’s longest road will run 3,127km along the coast from Nui Do port in the northern province of Quang Ninh to the Xa Xia Border Gate in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kien Giang. Construction of the coastal road’s first phase, which will last until 2020, will focus on building [...]
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May 4, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The East Meets West Foundation recently introduced a model programme to help communities in the central areas of Viet Nam adapt to climate change. People in the coastal areas of Quang Nam Province’s Thang Binh District train each other to make dugouts to protect themselves from storms.According to the foundation’s survey, climate change [...]
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