Posts Tagged ‘ Viet Nam ’

Festival celebrates cashews

February 5, 2010
Festival celebrates cashews

The first Golden Cashew Festival this March would seek to entrench Viet Nam’s position as the world’s largest exporter and further popularise its produce . . . Currently, the country has a total cashew cultivation area of 450,000ha and about 200 processing factories.The festival will be held in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, the nation’s [...]

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Viet Nam’s ties with China based on mutual trust: NA Chairman

February 5, 2010
Viet Nam’s ties with China based on mutual trust: NA Chairman

LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam has tried its utmost to widen and deepen its friendship and co-operation with China on the basis of mutual trust. NA Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong (right) receives President of Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament Han Qide in Ha Noi.The top Vietnamese legislator made this statement in Ha Noi yesterday, [...]

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LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 4/2

February 5, 2010
LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 4/2

Hue to host national hip-hop contest; Cakes made for underprivileged; Music show to raise funds for Haiti; Korea’s Steel King pays a visit A hip-hop contest entitled “Urban Kingz 2″ will be organised over two days from this Saturday at Celadon Hotel, Hue.The contest will see nearly 50 hip-hop crews from 15 cities and provinces [...]

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Anti-corruption work improves, but many loopholes still exist

February 1, 2010
Anti-corruption work improves, but many loopholes still exist

At recent meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-corruption, Deputy Prime Minister and Vice Chairman of the committee Truong Vinh Trong spoke with Vietnam News Agency. LookAtVietnam – At recent meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-corruption, Deputy Prime Minister and Vice Chairman of the committee Truong Vinh Trong spoke with the Vietnam [...]

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Overseas workers remit $2b a year

January 31, 2010
Overseas workers remit $2b a year

More than 1 million Vietnamese labourers have worked abroad in the past 30 years, according to Nguyen Thanh Hoa, deputy director of the Overseas Labour Management Department. LookAtVietnam – More than 1 million Vietnamese labour-ers have worked abroad in the past 30 years, according to Nguyen Thanh Hoa, deputy director of the Ministry of Labour, [...]

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Athletes suffer health shortfall

January 31, 2010
Athletes suffer health shortfall

LookAtVietnam – Despite more and more Vietnamese athletes competing in regional athletics events over the last three years, there are just 80 sports doctors in the country, according to the National Sports Administration.At the main national sport centre in Ha Noi, each doctor has to take care of between 80 and 90 athletes.More serious injuries [...]

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Filtering a dream through porous pottery

January 30, 2010
Filtering a dream through porous pottery

LookAtVietnam – After spending twenty-three years at the drawing board, inventor Pham Tien Bo has finally finished his masterpiece, a traditional pot that filters water. A mug which could filter water in an instant intrigued potter Pham Tien Bo so much that he spent 23 years researching and developing his own Vietnamese version. When did [...]

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PM proposes an East Asian Forum on Climate Change

January 30, 2010
PM proposes an East Asian Forum on Climate Change

It is necessary to set up an East Asian Forum on Climate Change to address this huge challenge of mankind, said PM Nguyen Tan Dung at the special session on East Asia today. LookAtVietnam – It is necessary to set up an East Asian Forum on Climate Change where regional countries can work closely to [...]

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Vietnamese PM suggests increase of power for FAO

January 30, 2010
Vietnamese PM suggests increase of power for FAO

“We should think of reform and increase of mandates and power for the FAO,” said PM Nguyen Tan Dung at the WEF’s session on rethinking how to feed the world on January 29. Hereafter is the PM’s full speech at the session: Food security is not merely an economic or humanitarian issue, but also plays [...]

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Dung pushes democratisation

January 29, 2010
Dung pushes democratisation

One of the urgent demands in the world today was to generate bigger democratisation in global governance, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Davos yesterday. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets Swiss President Doris Leuthard on his working visit to Switzerland.Dung, addressing the 40th Davos plenary session on reshaping global governance, said this was [...]

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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...