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Vietnam has become the first production country which Liffe (the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange) allows setting up a storehouse and send samples to London to have quality tested at its center. On September 20, Peter Blogg, head of the coffee division of Liffe, which is now put under the management of [...]
Cable music channel MTV Vietnam’s Vietnamese Music Video Contest has raised eyebrows, with industry insiders expressing concern that only 24 singers and music bands, all selected by the organizers, have been allowed to compete. Artists ranging from top singers Hong Nhung, My Tam, and Dam Vinh Hung to emerging names such as Anna and Van [...]
Around 550 items and pictures on Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) islands are displayed at the “Quang Ngai –Sea and Island Culture Heritage” exhibition in Quang Ngai province. The exhibition opened on August 29 and will last until September 2. A retired official is reading quotations from ancient books about [...]
The Sports House of the Hanoi University of Technology exploded on the evening of August 28, by the cheers of hundreds of students who participated in the finale of “Buoc Nhay Xi tin”, a dancing contest for youth, of the northern region. 20 dancing groups from northern provinces devoted to the audience a wonderful [...]
While the majority of students are busy preparing for the new academic year, many other students are still weeping because they still don’t know where to go. Getting overloaded, schools refuse students A lot of parents gathered some days ago in front of the Phan Van Tri Primary School in district 1 in HCM City, [...]
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has submitted to the government, a golf-course development plan to 2020, under which the total number of golf courses in Vietnam will rise to 118. The K’Ren golf course at present. However, there is a fact that many licensed golf course projects are idle though thousands of hectares of [...]
VietNamNet’s annual “Everlasting Things” concert is also accompanied with an exhibition. This year, it will be supported by the photo exhibition of conductor Le Phi Phi. In 2009, the first “Everlasting Things” concert was accompanied by old, valuable pictures of Hanoi in the past. In 2010, it was the collection of colorful paintings by famous [...]
Host player Nguyen Tien Minh will be the No 1 seed at the Viet Nam Open Badminton Grand Prix. Minh, the world No 7, is the highest ranking athlete registered for the annual event. The two-time Olympian, will have a chance to make up for his defeat at the hands of Japan’s Sho Sasaki at [...]
Several foreign companies have showed their keen interest in airport infrastructure development in Cam Ranh Airport at recent meetings with the authorities of Khanh Hoa Province. Khanh Hoa Province’s official info portal said representatives of a venture involving Airis International proposed a plan to develop a terminal for low-cost carriers in Cam Ranh Airport and [...]
The moon cake market for this year’s mid-autumn festival has made an earlier start over last year with higher prices due to rising input costs and soaring prices of food, rice and cooking gas. Many well-known bakeries including Kinh Do, Dong Khanh, Bibica and Thanh Long have started production for the moon festival since mid [...]