TTN – UPDATED : 08/20/2015 13:26 GMT + 7
If you have walked by colleges around Ho Chi Minh City recently, it is not hard to see long lines of students and parents tiredly waiting to withdraw their profiles.
By Ngoc An, TNN
Friday, August 21, 2015 13:56
An undated photo of students singing the national anthem in a school in Hanoi. Photo: Ngoc Thang
Vietnam’s national anthem “Tien quan ca” (Marching song), composed by late musician Van Cao, has come under copyright protection.
The Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright announced recently that from now on any public performance of the song, including political and free art shows, and commercial use of it would be subject to royalty. Continue reading Vietnam national anthem gets under copyright protection
By Oliver Massmann, TNN
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:26
A footwear factory in Hanoi. Photo: Reuters
Vietnam is the most investment worthy place in ASEAN – this is a common response of many foreign investors when being asked about their investment plan in the upcoming years.
This is not an exaggeration about Vietnam’s current investment environment as well as its potentiality but is in fact based on valid and practical grounds, where improved economic diversification, international integration, reformed investment legislation and good economic policy must be counted.
TTN – UPDATED : 08/18/2015 20:03 GMT + 7
It was 10:00 pm on August 9, and the atmosphere at the Tan Binh Exhibition and Convention Center in Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, was still bustling, as local customers were busy packaging goods they had bought from an exhibition of Thai goods there to bring them home. Continue reading Thai goods silently penetrating Vietnamese market ahead of regional economic bloc establishment
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Monday, August 17, 2015 00:06
Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the U.S. for the loss of almost $14,000 this year.
Farmers such as Tuyen say the only way American companies can undercut Vietnamese poultry prices is if they export chicken at artificially low prices or ship damaged meat to the Southeast Asian country. Continue reading Chicken war with U.S. shows free trade threat to Vietnam farmers
TTN – UPDATED : 08/16/2015 17:57 GMT + 7
After suddenly owning a very big sum of money through selling land when land fever swept through Phu Quoc Island, many farmers and fishermen could only enjoy the rich life for a short time due to their lack of skills in managing cash.
Some recalled that the wealth flashed to them as quickly as a dream. Continue reading Penniless billionaires on Vietnam’s tourism haven of Phu Quoc
TTN – UPDATED : 06/11/2015 12:22 GMT + 7
In recent years, more young people have volunteered to offer free guidance to tourists, particularly foreigners, in several touristy cities in Vietnam, which helps create a friendlier image for the country’s tourism sector.
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The cheery young volunteers, mostly students from local universities, have celebrated their passion for tourism and love for the cities where they are living by launching groups or clubs offering free-of-charge tourist guidelines. Continue reading Youths act as free tour guides for foreigners in Vietnam’s popular locations
TTN – UPDATED : 08/13/2015 10:40 GMT + 7
A grower is seen harvesting her hydroponically produced veggies. – Tuoi Tre
In recent years, a number of farming businesses in the resort town of Da Lat and its neighboring areas have turned to hydroponics, or cultivation of plants in a nutrient liquid with or without a supporting medium, in a bid to produce safe, quality greens.
Under the hydroponic model, vegetables, mostly leafy ones, are grown in nutrient-filled water pipes. Continue reading Farmers in Da Lat grow greens in water
TTN – UPDATED : 08/12/2015 14:12 GMT + 7
Vietnamese workers make garments that will be exported to the European market at Garmex Saigon JSC. – Tuoi Tre
The Vietnam-EU free trade agreement, which will be reached soon following the conclusion of final negotiations between the two parties, will bring benefits worth billions of U.S. dollars to Vietnamese firms, a senior state official told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in an interviewed published Tuesday. Continue reading Vietnamese enterprises to reap huge benefits after signing of EU trade pact
TTN – UPDATED : 08/12/2015 16:55 GMT + 7
With the devaluation of the Chinese yuan on Tuesday sparking fears of a global currency war, Vietnamese exporters also face immediate concerns as their goods are now more expensive in China, their major exporting market.
The People’s Bank of China devalued the yuan by 1.9 percent against the U.S. dollar, sending the currency to a four-year low, in a move to boost exports following a run of poor economic data, according to Reuters. Continue reading Weaker Chinese yuan to take toll on Vietnamese exporters
TTN -UPDATED : 08/05/2015 14:44 GMT + 7
Nguyen Danh Thai is now the chairman of the Vietnam Tennis Federation after he retired from the post of deputy sports minister in 2010. Tuoi Tre
The development of national sports federations in Vietnam has been stuck in a Catch-22 situation for a long time, with the direct involvement of sports officials from the central government.
Outdated regulations result in ineffective outcomes of the organizations, and consequently they cannot attract the contributions of qualified people. Continue reading In Vietnam, sports federations’ progress obstructed by government officials
THOAI TRAN/TTN – UPDATED : 08/07/2015 10:40 GMT + 7
Do Xuan Quang, chairman of the Vietnam Logistics Business Association, and Thong Tangsritrakul, vice president of the Thai Federation of Logistics, talk about cooperation opportunities in the logistics sector between Vietnam and Thailand at a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on August 3, 2015. Thoai Tran/Tuoi Tre News
Multinational logistics enterprises take most of the market share in providing logistics services in Vietnam, while local firms have to compete fiercely for the remaining, an expert said at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday. Continue reading Vietnam’s logistics sector still weak ahead of regional economic integration
TNN – DAK LAK – Friday, July 31, 2015 12:11
Vietnam’s last elephants dying due to poaching, deforestation
Another domestic elephant dies in Central Highlands
Several mahouts have been taking turns to look after a 20-year-old male elephant around the clock since it had a tusk almost cut off by some thieves on July 14. Continue reading Tusk thieves threaten Vietnam’s fast dwindling domesticated elephants
DONGXING, CHINA – Thursday, August 06, 2015 14:00
Reuters – On a quiet river bend on the China-Vietnam border, a group of people clambered up a muddy bank. They had just glided across the river from the Vietnamese side in a longboat, guided by men on both banks signaling with flashlights.
The passengers scurried over to a group of men standing by their motorcycles, climbed aboard the bikes and disappeared into the night. Two Chinese police officers in uniform, stationed at a small post near the crossing point in the border town of Dongxing, watched impassively as they rode past. Continue reading How smuggled workers power ‘Made in China’
by cogitASIA Staff • July 31, 2015
By Zachary Abuza
A drought in the middle of monsoon season brought on by the El Niño effect has affected farmers across Southeast Asia, hampering economic growth and exacerbating political tensions between urban elites and farmers. Though rains have recently begun, reservoirs are at such low levels that they will not be refilled in a shortened season with average rainfall. A record level of paddy has gone unplanted, and where the fall crop has been planted, seedlings have withered in parched paddy. Continue reading Southeast Asia’s Real Security Concern
