January 18, 2012
Nguyen Viet Anh, 5, before (L) and 110 days after getting a bone marrow transplant to treat epidermolysis bullosa (EB) at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi Vietnam has become only the second country in the world to successfully use stem cell transplant to treat Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), an inherited connective tissue disease [...]
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January 16, 2012
The World Bank agreed Thursday to lend US$ 973.5 million to Vietnam for three poverty reduction and infrastructure projects. The projects are the $613.5-million Da Nang – Quang Ngai Expressway, $210-million Medium Cities Development project, and the $150-million 10th Poverty Reduction Support Credit. “It is the first time that the World Bank is financing an [...]
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January 15, 2012
A woman fans coals to heat up a cooker on the railway track in downtown Hanoi. When investment decisions are made based on corruption, it is not only the honest firms that suffer, but also the public through lower quality and higher cost works. As Vietnam sits on the cusp of becoming a middle income [...]
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January 14, 2012
Vietnam signaled that it may cut policy interest rates to “more suitable” levels after the first quarter and weaken the dong this year as Asia’s fastest inflation eases. “The central bank will adjust policy rates to more suitable levels, aiming to help ease the average level of market interest rates,” central bank Governor Nguyen [...]
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January 14, 2012
 Director Le Hoang (L). His latest sleazy movie, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), revolves around a straightforward question that satirizes materialistic relationships: how much does it cost to sleep with you? Le Hoang’s latest soft-porn flick, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), just like his earlier ones, are less “cheap” than many people [...]
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January 11, 2012
Vietnam will adjust policy interest rates to “more suitable” levels after the first quarter and weaken the dong as much as 3 percent this year, central bank Governor Nguyen Van Binh said. “We believe that 2012 will be a hard year, a challenging year for Vietnam’s economy,” Binh said at a conference in Hanoi [...]
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January 9, 2012
 Street vendors ply their goods in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The Asian Development Bank has lowered Vietnam’s economic growth forecast in 2012 to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent forecast last September. With the world economy remaining mired in difficulty, the Asian Development Bank forecasts a difficult year ahead for Vietnam. However, it [...]
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January 9, 2012
Former Italian football star Fabio Canavaro will visit Ho Chi Minh City on Friday. Photo by Dan Tri. Fabio Canavaro, the best player of the 2006 FIFA World Cup and member of the Italian squad as the Cup champions, will come to Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, January 6. Canavaro will meet the media [...]
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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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January 9, 2012
Justin Bieber will help unveil a new entertainment robot made by a Vietnamese company Singing sensation Justin Bieber is expected to help launch a toy robot made by Hanoi-based TOSY Robotics at the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow – the 2012 International CES – later this week. According to an official CESÂ statement, the pop star [...]
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