Small village home to Ha Noi’s sporting elite

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HA NOI — Co Loa village in Dong Anh district is about 20km north of Ha Noi had previously been known as a potential site for the nation’s capital sportsmen and women.
The village is native place of Nguyen Thi Nu, who won a gold medal in the 1,500m event at the [...]

Exhibition presents 1,000 years of Vietnamese ceramic works

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HCM CITY — An exhibition of Vietnamese ceramics spanning 1,000 years and several dynasties has opened at the HCM City Museum.
Ngan Nam Gom Viet (A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Ceramics) features 260 artefacts that traces the development of national traditional ceramics during the reigns of the Ly, Tran, Earlier Le, Mac, [...]

INDOCHINA EXPERIENCES

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Each of the Indochinese countries has its own unique attractions, diverse cultures and beautiful landscapes. Ancient monuments, historic towns and old [...]

WELCOME TO CAMBODIA

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We’ve trusted our eyes our whole life, but once visiting Cambodia, we may start doubting them.
In front of Angkor Wat, one of the [...]

WELCOME TO LAOS

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On the journey to conquer the beauty of unspoiled nature and culture over Asian countries, [...]

WELCOME TO VIETNAM

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To the rest of the world, Vietnam is known as a poor country, which has been suffered a lot from the wars. Nowadays, with huge efforts from different social classes and [...]

Mobile phone rules difficult to enforce

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HA NOI — The Ministry of Information and Communications admits that it has failed to successfully regulate prepaid mobile phone services.
In an online dialogue with citizens on Sunday, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Le Nam Thang said many challenges remained in enforcing existing regulations on this market.
A regulation which took [...]

Capital property boom increases risks

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HA NOI — Land fever in Ha Noi has become boisterous in the last two months with projects spanning across the new urban areas in the capital’s western region and beyond to many neighbouring areas.
Real estate analysts have warned of potential risks in real estate investment at this time because markets [...]

Japan agency to help boost health services

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HA NOI — A project entitled “Improving Quality of Human Resource in Medical Service System” was signed yesterday by the Ministry of Health and the Japanese International Co-operation Agency (JICA).
The five-year project will start in June this year with a JICA grant of US$5.3 million pledged to focus on priority activities [...]

Viet Nam welcomes 50 percent increase in tourism

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Ha Noi — Viet Nam welcomed nearly 440,000 foreign arrivals in May, an increase of more than 50 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Most of the tourists were from mainland China, Australia, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, France, Malaysia and the US. [...]