January 25, 2012
Property projects under construction seen from a high-rise building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Many companies in Vietnam were dealt a harsh blow by the real estate market slump last year. Singapore property developer Keppel Land, though not completely untouched, has weathered the downturn well. Linson Lim, President of Keppel Land Vietnam, is [...]
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January 25, 2012
Property projects under construction seen from a high-rise building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Many companies in Vietnam were dealt a harsh blow by the real estate market slump last year. Singapore property developer Keppel Land, though not completely untouched, has weathered the downturn well. Linson Lim, President of Keppel Land Vietnam, is [...]
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January 14, 2012
Pham Phuoc Hung has become the second Vietnamese gymnast to have qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Pham Phuoc Hung has qualified for this summer’s Olympics in London after earning a total of 83.532 points at the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Qualifying contest in London on Wednesday. Forty-nine gymnasts from around the world competed for [...]
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January 14, 2012
One of the pleasures, and risks, of attending the gigantic Consumer Electronics Show is seeing a bunch of new products that look incredibly cool. Why a risk? Because things that look incredibly cool under carefully controlled conditions in Las Vegas sometimes turn out to be less than stellar successes by the time they hit [...]
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January 9, 2012
A man (L) stands in front of an ATM while a homeless man sleeps in front of an advertisement on a street in Hanoi January 3. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has acknowledged the surging influence interest groups have on the policymaking process, calling for increased transparency to tackle the issue. Prime Minister Nguyen [...]
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December 14, 2011
 12-year-old Singaporean-Australian teenager Charlotte Lau during the cycling adventure from Hoi An Town to Hue Town When did you first participate in a charity event to help people in need? This week, Thanh Nien Weekly talked with Charlotte Lau, a 12-year-old Singaporean-Australian, about her recent cycling adventure from Hue Town to Hoi An [...]
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December 3, 2011
Real estate has regained the top spot as the most attractive sector for private equity investment, Grant Thornton says. Private equity investors’ optimism in the Vietnamese economy has dropped sharply as they continue to worry about inflation, high interest rates and a slowdown in domestic growth, according to Grant Thornton. Negative sentiment toward the economy [...]
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November 17, 2011
Lam Thien's team won top prize for best movie in this year's "Canon 48 Hour Film Project". Photo by 57 Bananas. The story of a burglar who is trapped and pays dearly for his greed in the short film "The safe," by the team Lam Thien, has won the top prize of the second season [...]
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November 12, 2011
Right fullback Au Van Hoan celebrates after doubling the score for Vietnam against Timor-Leste. The Vietnamese men’s national football team beat Timor-Leste 2-0 in their third Group B match at the 26th South East Asian Games in Indonesia on Wednesday. It had been expected to be a hard game for Vietnam because Timor-Leste was leading [...]
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November 4, 2011
GM Le Quang Liem (L) has fallen three positions to 28th while GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (R) has jumped 23 spots to 83rd. Photo by NLD. Chess ace GM Le Quang Liem slipped three spots in the World rankings while the country’s second best Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son jumped 23 places, according to FIDE [...]
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