Posts Tagged ‘ The Future ’

Book Streets to complement Flower Street 

January 7, 2012
Book Streets to complement Flower Street 

Visitors read special editions of local magazines and newspaper at last year’s book street in Ho Chi Minh City. The annual Nguyen Hue Flower Street display during this year’s Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday will be once again accompanied by three book streets in Ho Chi Minh City from January 20-26. The event, which aims [...]

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Poetry in silky motion 

October 9, 2011
Poetry in silky motion 

  Artist says she was destined to depict the story of Kieu The silk paintings by Ngoc Mai have Kieu wearing Vietnamese traditional dresses like ao dai and ao tu than. Each painting took Mai several months to complete. Vietnam’s most famous literary work of all time, “The Tale of Kieu,” has been rewritten in [...]

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The more things change… 

September 10, 2011
The more things change… 

An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan is [...]

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Coal exports make no sense 

June 27, 2011
Coal exports make no sense 

Coal mining in the northern province of Quang Ninh. Vietnam, a major coal exporter, imported its first load of the fuel this month. Vietnam imported its first load of coal this month even as it continues exporting large quantities of the fuel. This is irrational and the country should have stopped exporting it years ago, [...]

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Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says 

June 4, 2011
Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says 

Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. The [...]

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Local firms feel the heat of rising input costs 

March 17, 2011
Local firms feel the heat of rising input costs 

A worker at a plastic product factory in Ho Chi Minh City Local firms struggling to manage soaring input costs and high interest rates will find government support critical for getting through tough times, experts say. However, some of them are worried about the lack of resilience shown by some enterprises which they say does [...]

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South Sudan votes 98.83 percent to secede 

February 8, 2011
South Sudan votes 98.83 percent to secede 

A Sudanese man shows the palms of his hands after he dipped them in the blood of a sacrificial cow as he and others celebrate the results of the January referendum on the secession of southern Sudan from the north in the capital Khartoum. Southern Sudan was well on track to become the world’s newest [...]

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Retail sector to grow vigorously in Vietnam

February 7, 2010
Retail sector to grow vigorously in Vietnam

LookAtVietnam – Despite the global economic crisis, Vietnam’s retail turnover rose by 18.6 percent in 2009 – an encouraging figure in light of the fact that many retail markets in the world recorded negative growth.The Association of Vietnamese Retailers (AVR) says this result shows a comprehensive development of the Vietnamese retail business with regard to [...]

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DMC in the HCMC

January 30, 2010
DMC in the HCMC

American rapper DMC, formerly of legendary band Run DMC, was warmly welcomed by the audiences in HCM City.  VietNamNet translates an interview with American rapper DMC (Darryl Matthews McDaniels) from VNExpress. How does it feel to making your first trip to Vietnam? I arrived in HCM City on January 22. I couldn’t avoid feeling strange in my [...]

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Dang Thai Son – The lonely pianist

January 28, 2010
Dang Thai Son – The lonely pianist

“A single man like me doesn’t have to suffer from any pressure in art. The piano has become my closest friend,” said the world renowned pianist in a recent interview.  Dang Thai Son has returned to Vietnam to perform in a single concert in HCM City this week. LookAtVietnam: The year 2010 marks milestones in your [...]

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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...