May 7, 2011
This undated file photo provided by New Mark Communications shows Greg Mortenson of Roseville, Minn., who founded the Central Asia Institute, a Montana-based organization which builds schools for girls in remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Greg Mortenson, author of the bestseller “Three Cups of Tea,” was sued for fraud on Friday in a [...]
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March 30, 2011
Ca tru singer Pham Thi Hue (L) and her teacher, folk artisan Nguyen Phu De, have just released the first-ever ca tru recording in an extensive effort to promote the art The first recorded ca tru album (an ancient genre of chamber music featuring female vocalists) has just been released as part of an extensive [...]
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January 1, 2010
LookAtVietnam – In 2009, Vietnamese diplomacy achieved many important results to improve the country’s status, position and strength in its process of development and integration. PM Dung delivers speech at the conference on climate changeVietnam continued to uphold its foreign policy of independence, sovereignty, peace, cooperation and development in active and comprehensive ways that built [...]
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July 23, 2009
Le Thanh Chien from the Viet Nam Craft Villages Association spoke to Kinh Te & Do Thi (Economy & Urban Areas) newspaper about the plight of craft villages during the economic slowdown. Craft villages should also speed up registration for intellectual property rights. They should also build a website and increase tourism to promote [...]
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July 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Le Thanh Chien from the Viet Nam Craft Villages Association spoke to Kinh Te & Do Thi (Economy & Urban Areas) newspaper about the plight of craft villages during the economic slowdown. Craft villages should also speed up registration for intellectual property rights. They should also build a website and increase tourism to [...]
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July 4, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The country’s tourism promotion program Impressive Vietnam will be extended until the end of this year rather than end-September to appeal more international travelers and local tourists in the high season, “The program is attracting fewer tourists than expected because of some reasons but we need programs like this to woo foreign visitors”.The [...]
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June 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Local golf courses will be featured on international TV channels under a publicity program to promote the country’s tourism sector, according to a program being mulled by the International Cooperation Bureau under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. A golfer makes a tee-off in the Central Highlands city of Dalat. The country’s [...]
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May 20, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The possibility that trading hours on the nation’s stock exchanges would be extended to the afternoon in near future is concerning investors, many of whom think that the market is struggling to reach higher trading levels even with trading limited to half-a-day. Earlier this month, the State Securities Commission released several measures to [...]
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March 9, 2009
The US Deputy Chief of the Mission in Vietnam, Virginia Palmer, is impressed by female Vietnamese leaders, who are very active in social activities. She talked about them on the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8). The US Deputy Chief of the Mission in Vietnam, Virginia Palmer, talked with VietNamNet reporter. On March 8, Vietnamese [...]
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March 5, 2009
Job opportunities created for 6,000 work-hands; Meeting marks Women’s Day; Blue-ear pig disease ravages Quang Nam province; Finland considers employing Vietnamese workers; US firm to build ‘Creation City’ in Phu Yen Job opportunities created for 6,000 work-handsThe fifth Job Festival was held by the Lao dong Thu do (Capital Labour) Newspaper in co-ordination with the [...]
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