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Hanoi on Thursday won the right to host the 2019 Asian Games, ahead of Indonesia’s second biggest city of Surabaya and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said. The Vietnamese capital was selected at the OCA’s general assembly in Macau, after Dubai pulled out at the last minute to [...]
CapitaValue Homes Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CapitaLand Limited, launches PARCSpring, its first value housing project in Vietnam. The phase 1 structural work is expected to be completed by end of 2012. PARCSpring will be an urban living community along the river promenade in the established Binh Trung Dong Ward in District 2. Strategically located [...]
Dozens of excited “Twilight” fans set up tents in Los Angeles on Thursday ahead of next week’s world premiere of the last film in the vampire romance franchise. Some 2,200 people from all over the world have registered to camp on a concrete plaza outside a downtown Los Angeles movie theater, movie studio Summit Entertainment [...]
Seven out of 10 officials in the medical sector, when asked about the qualification of newly graduated physicians, said the education quality has been decreasing. As many physicians as possible “I really cannot understand what medical schools teach their students. All of newly graduated physicians have vague knowledge and cannot do anything,” T, chief [...]
A teacher at a ‘VIP’ class in a Hanoi public school uses an interactive board A proposal by the Ministry of Education and Training to charge students extra for “quality” classes in public schools has come under fire for creating a rich-poor gap. The ministry said public institutions from the kindergarten to high school levels are encouraged [...]
Deputy chairman of the National Assembly Huynh Ngoc Son warned that “the traffic death toll in the past nine months of this year equaled to a division strength,” considering it a great loss to the nation. Son made the statement at yesterday’s meeting to review the Government’s report about the traffic situation in the past [...]
Slim houses, which are often less than 1 or 2m in frontal width, come into being after their original full-sized versions are partially demolished to make way for road expansion projects. Their remains are then renovated, and in some cases when space was lacking, expanded upwards. The capital, Hanoi, and southern hub of Ho Chi [...]
The director of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Agency told VietNamNet, that in the near future, the police would be tough with robbery criminals targeting foreign tourists. Meanwhile, there are concerns that the slogan “HCM City – attractive, friendly and safe destination” will not be achieved if robbery on the street still threatens people [...]
Google announced on Wednesday that its online store for media and applications Google Play has hit 25 billion downloads. To celebrate the milestone, Google said it will discount a variety of popular apps which will be on sale for 25 cents apiece. The company is also promoting special collections at special prices like 25 movies [...]
Vietnam’s police agency on Thursday afternoon (September 27) announced the indictments against Tran Xuan Gia, former bank chairman and former government minister and three former deputy bank chairmen. The information was released by Vu Duc Dam, Minister and Chairman of the Government Office, at the regular press conference held at the Government Office late Thursday afternoon. [...]