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Money isn’t everything 

January 15, 2012
Money isn’t everything 

  Do Ngoc Tuan (R), 42, of Long An Province’s Ben Luc Town won more than US$300,000 after buying unsold tickets from vendor Pham Thi Lanh (L) Tuan’s equanimity in the face of such a change in his fortunes has made the news as much as the winning itself. Just as impressive is the story [...]

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Toyota Concert Tour 2011 to cover four Vietnam metros 

June 27, 2011
Toyota Concert Tour 2011 to cover four Vietnam metros 

  The annual Toyota Concert Tour 2011 will take place in Vietnam’s four big cities nex month (July 7-16).   Under the baton of Japanese conductor Honna Tesuji, the Vietnam National Sumphony Orchestra will perform famous music international compositions including Saint Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso op.28, Bizet Prelude from “Carmen” and J.Strauss II’s Tritch [...]

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Vietnam airlines increase domestic fares 

May 11, 2011
Vietnam airlines increase domestic fares 

Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific, along with Air Mekong, Saturday increased their airfares on domestic flights (Photo by TBKTSG Online). Budget airline Jetstar Pacific and private carrier Air Mekong raised their prices on Saturday, half of month after the Finance Ministry approved a 22.7 percent increase in domestic airfares.   Ta Huu Thanh, deputy general director [...]

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French music hits Hanoi 

April 19, 2011
French music hits Hanoi 

French female vocalist, will perform Mouron will perform in Hanoi on April 20-21 L’Espace, the French culture center in Hanoi, has prepared a variety of new programs for the coming summer. All performances will begin at 8pm at 24 Trang Tien, Hoan Kiem District—unless otherwise noted. – April 20 –21 Mouron, a French female vocalist, [...]

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Bob Dylan to perform in Vietnam? 

February 18, 2011
Bob Dylan to perform in Vietnam? 

  Tickets for Backstreet Boys concerts almost sold out, organizers say Bob Dylan is rumored to perform in Ho Chi Minh City this April Vietnam will be one of four Asian destinations for American music icon Bob Dylan who will perform in Ho Chi Minh City this April, according to several local media reports. The [...]

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Hunting for air tickets to fly on Tet days

December 18, 2009
Hunting for air tickets to fly on Tet days

LookAtVietnam – Passengers complain that they cannot book air tickets to fly on Tet holiday, though Tet two months is two months away. It is very difficult to get a ticket from December 24 of Lunar Year (February 8, 2010) and afterwardsGiang, who lives in HCM City, decided to take his five-month-old son to his [...]

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SMS train booking service now available

December 2, 2009
SMS train booking service now available

The HCM City Railway Station on December 1 launched its train booking service via SMS in a bid to save time for passengere.  According to the station’s announcement, it would not sell tickets for the lunar New Year 2010 (Tet) via the Internet by via SMS. The fees for sending a message is 12,000.  Passengers [...]

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Do Vietnam’s youth need or want traditional arts?

November 13, 2009
Do Vietnam’s youth need or want traditional arts?

Young people in Vietnam are spending their free time playing online games, writing blogs, socialising and shopping – is it a problem that they seem to have no time for traditional arts?    Cheo or rock? Le Thi Ngoc Mai, a final-year student of the Hanoi Foreign Trade University, admits she has never gone to theatre [...]

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Vietnam Airlines plans to meet EU rules on emissions control

October 15, 2009
Vietnam Airlines plans to meet EU rules on emissions control

Viet Nam News speaks to Vietnam Airlines’ general director Pham Ngoc Minh about the European Union’s request for aviation emissions controls to be imposed on the carrier’s aircraft. Under commission regulation No 748/2009 published in the Official Journal of the European Union on August 22, 2009, Vietnam Airlines is listed among those aviation carriers that [...]

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Cinemas in great demand

September 9, 2009
Cinemas in great demand

With over 80 million people, Vietnam’s demand for entertainment services, particularly movies, is huge. However, it has less than 100 movie theatres. Young audience at the Megarstar Hanoi. Along with the country’s development, living standards have improved so the demand for entertainment services is rising, including movies. However, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s statistics [...]

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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...