Posts Tagged ‘ The Moment ’

Hand, foot and mouth disease spreads to pandemic levels 

August 27, 2011
Hand, foot and mouth disease spreads to pandemic levels 

  Official re-classifies the outbreak as death toll reaches 81 A child being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnamese health ministry is considering declaring the disease a pandemic, as more than 32,000 cases of the illness have claimed 81 lives across the country so far this year. [...]

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Larger high-quality orchards needed for growing exports 

July 30, 2011
Larger high-quality orchards needed for growing exports 

Farmers harvest dragon fruit for export in the central province of Binh Thuan. The US decided to import more varieties of Vietnamese fruit, creating further opportunities for the nation’s fruit industry. The market often pays high prices for imported fruit, but maintains strict quality standards. At the moment, it requires imported fruit to meet VietGap [...]

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Recording artists rail against government CD stamp 

July 23, 2011
Recording artists rail against government CD stamp 

Two policemen are classifying the seized pirated CDs. At the same time, the recording officials said they are fed up with government-issued authenticity stamps which have done little more than proving a financial and logistical burden. Prominent members of Vietnam’s recording businesses are requesting permission to issue their own authenticity stamps. The recording officials say [...]

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Vietnamese scholar discusses East Sea disputes on Chinese television 

July 5, 2011
Vietnamese scholar discusses East Sea disputes on Chinese television 

Vietnam-China relations expert discusses East Sea disputes on Hong Kong based television. PhD Vu Cao Phan, a researcher on Vietnam-China relations and deputy chairman of Vietnam-China Friendship Society, last week had an interview with Phoenix Television, a Hong Kong-based Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese television broadcaster. Phan spoke on behalf of the Institute of Chinese Studies [...]

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Novelist turns fantasy into reality 

May 22, 2011
Novelist turns fantasy into reality 

Jenny-Mai Nuyen, now 23, is the writer of six best-seller fantasy novels which have been translated into German, English, and Vietnamese. Jenny-Mai Nuyen started writing when she was five years old. At the age of 13, she penned her first fantasy novel. At 18, the Vietnamese-German published, Nijura – Das Erbe der Elfenkrone (Nijura – [...]

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Eurovision cheers down-in-the-dumps Europe 

May 14, 2011
Eurovision cheers down-in-the-dumps Europe 

Europe has few reasons for cheer at the moment, but tens of millions of people across the continent and beyond will Saturday let their hair down for the pop extravaganza that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Europe has few reasons for cheer at the moment, but tens of millions of people across the continent and [...]

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Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disaster 

May 3, 2011
Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disaster 

An official checks a visitor at a radiation screening center in Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture. Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis. The massive March [...]

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Battle plan 

March 22, 2011
Battle plan 

  Vietnam’s government grapples with an unprecedented inflationary predicament  Construction workers have lunch on the sidewalks of a street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City As consumer prices continue to rise, globally, fuel and energy have spiked at home. Minister of Planning and Investment, Vo Hong Phuc, sat down with Thanh Nien Weekly to discuss [...]

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Telcos upgrade networks to reduce jamming

February 4, 2010
Telcos upgrade networks to reduce jamming

Mobile carriers have completed their network upgrades to reduce jamming incidents caused by overload during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday . . . Viettel now has around 48 million subscribers.Tran Minh Huy, deputy director of Viettel Telecom in HCMC, on Monday told the Daily that network jamming in the Lunar New Year, or Tet, [...]

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In turbulent era, some businesses find ways to escape exchange rate risks

December 8, 2009
In turbulent era, some businesses find ways to escape exchange rate risks

LookAtVietnam – The sharp dollar price increases have hurt a lot of businesses. Others are immune from ‘dollar fever’ because they can negotiate payments in dong. Smart deals Though it’s Government  policy to prevent the ‘dollarisation’ of the national economy – requiring that all transactions in Vietnam be expressed and settled in dong, the national currency – [...]

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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...