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VIETNAM: Prospects of Total Facebook Blackout Loom Large
HO CHI MINH CITY, Nov 25 (IPS) - While much of the world is busy chatting with friends or posting photos via Facebook, Internet users in Vietnam are worried that government restrictions on access to this popular social...
Untreated hospital waste overflowing in Vietnam
Hanoi - Health experts Wednesday were troubled by news that Ho Chi Minh City hospitals are discharging 20,000 cubic metres per day of untreated wastewater into public sewers and rivers. Municipal environmental authorities...
Church celebrates Jubilee Year
The Catholic Church celebrates on November 24 the Solemnity of the 117 Vietnamese martyrs canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988, beatified in four groups: 64 in 1900 by Leo XIII, 8 in 1906 and 20 in ...
Taipei Fubon Branch In Vietnam Gets OK To Provide Forex Services
The branch will be permitted to provide a wide range of foreign exchange services to clients, including raising and lending funds, transmitting funds, and underwriting and managing foreign exchange ...
Parliament to vote on nuke plants
Deputy Tran Ngoc Vinh from Hai Phong spoke at the 12th National Assembly Deputies at the on-going session of the 12th National Assembly (NA) will vote for the construction of the US$12 billion nuclear power project, the first...
For first time Vietnamese government allows collection of hymns to be published
Presented the first volume of the work, which contains 500 sacred texts. The lack of an official hymnal has resulted, at times, in massive changes to original texts. New songs, in some cases use moder...
Recycling Center Makes An Offer You Can Reuse
In 1989 I had the chance to return to Vietnam with a group of fellow veterans. The trip was emotional, sobering, uplifting and, in some ways, surprising. One of the biggest surprises was our visit to Long Binh, the huge supply...
Luxury Travel Unveils Day Trip to Vung Tau Beach from Saigon Every Day
Vung Tau was known as Cap Saint-Jacques under French occupation. It is just 125 km southeast of Ho Chi Minh City.Once this seaside resort was a popular beach destination for French and American service man.Vung Tau is one of...
Mum, you’re the best!
RECENTLY, I travelled to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in Vietnam with my mum on a five-day/four-night trip. The best part of this trip was that my best friend, a guy, was tagging along, too. For instance, she does not believe in...
Bumi Armada and partner win US$700mil contract in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY: Bumi Armada Bhd and Vietsovpetro have signed a US$700mil deal with Vietnam-based Hoang Long Joint Operating Co for the lease of a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to be deployed at...
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