November 19, 2011
Vietnamese athletes earned 12 gold medals at the SEA Games on Wednesday, raising the total to 56 golds and jumping to second place behind hosts Indonesia. The 12 gold medals on Wednesday came in swimming, billiards, vovinam, free style wrestling, shooting, chess and rowing. Billiards player Ma Minh Cam closed the day with a [...]
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January 16, 2010
ASEAN General Secretary Surin Pitsuwan (R) in conversation with the media General Secretary Surin Pitsuwan has said ASEAN should tackle transnational challenges as a single community. Residents of ASEAN nations should forge a new regional identity in addition to their nationality in order to strengthen political and economic integration, ASEAN general secretary Surin Pitsuwan said [...]
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January 9, 2010
Despite the recent hike, sugar prices in the country are not that high compared to the regional market. Many enterprises are very worried about rising sugar prices as they prepare for the peak production period of the year with the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival just weeks away. On December 30, sugar was priced at [...]
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November 27, 2009
Visitors at the fifth Vietnam Motorshow in Ho Chi Minh City last week. Vietnamâs regional and global tax-cut commitments could mean the death of local car makers within the next ten years if there are be no improvements to the industryâs development strategy, a trade official said. That scenario would also include an ballooning trade [...]
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November 21, 2009
In the late afternoon light, a few fluorescent lights have been switched on in the stilt houses in Luc Village, Hoa Binh Province. LookAtVietnam – In the late afternoon light, the sun is gradually sinking, reflecting off the dark clouds and the surrounding mountains. A few fluorescent lights have been switched on in the stilt houses [...]
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October 30, 2009
Hotels ready for Asian Indoor Games’ guests, athletes; Ooc Om Boc fest gets going in Soc Trang Province; Russian tourists arrive on chartered flights All 45 hotels across the country designated for accommodating athletes and guests at the Asian Indoor Games III are well prepared for the regional sports event.All 45 hotels across the country [...]
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September 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Confusion over food imports has meant food left rotting in ports months after its delivery date and subsequent expiration. Currently nearly 100 containers of frozen food are stuck in HCM City ports in HCM with importers refusing to receive them. Clamp downs and bureacratic changes have meant many importers trying to dodge responsibility for [...]
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September 4, 2009
More Chinese students have been confirmed as having contracted A/H1N1 influenza as classes resume after the summer break. Health authorities in east China’s Zhejiang Province confirmed nine more cases of A/H1N1 influenza had been reported by Thursday in Qianjiang College of Zhejiang Normal University, bringing the total of confirmed cases in the college to 16. [...]
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August 28, 2009
The third APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) meeting wrapped up in Da Nang Thursday, calling on APEC members to take effective measures to accelerate economic reform and realize the regional free trade area. At the three-day event, officials, CEOs, researchers and policymakers from the 21 APEC member economies discussed proposals to cope with the economic [...]
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August 25, 2009
Vietnam supports Bogor Goals for free trade; Conference examines preparations for local Party congresses; Experts discuss how to strengthen Vietnamese-Chinese ties Vietnam supports Bogor Goals for free trade Vietnam supports APEC’s leading role in liberalising and facilitating trade and investment to fulfil the Bogor Goals and vision for a free trade area in the Asia-Pacific [...]
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