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  • Low-income buyers shun social housing apartments

    Low-income buyers shun social housing apartments HCM CITY (VNS)-- Commercially built apartments have become more popular with low-income buyers than social housing, as prices of the former have dropped substantially in recent years, according to real estate experts. Many commercial, or non-government-funded, housing projects in Ha Noi and HCM City have lowered prices to VND10-14 million ...

  • Small firms need more support

    A pumping machine is assembled at the Hai Duong Pump Manufacturing Co. The Government is considering improving its support and incentives for small- and medium-sized enterprises. -- VNA/VNS Photo Hoang ...

  • Retail giants target Viet Nam

    Retail giants target Viet Nam HA NOI (VNS)-- Foreign retail giants have shown their hunger to develop modern retailing in Viet Nam by pouring money into trade centres and supermarkets. According to the Institute of Information and Business Research (IIB), the retail industry in the country, which has a population of 88 million, holds huge potential despite local consumers tightened their ...

  • City to focus on safe vegetables

    A farmer waters his safe vegetables in Tam Phu Ward, HCM City. The municipal agriculture department plans to expand the application of VietGap standards to 1,730ha, or 50 per cent of the city's vegetable gardens, by 2015. -- VNA/VNS Photo Pham ...

  • Petrol price hike spooks markets

    HA NOI (VNS)-- The unexpected rise in petrol prices late on Friday hit the stock market yesterday with indices falling on both major exchanges. Steeper declines for large-cap shares in the afternoon pushed the VN-Index down by a further 11 points, or 2.06 per cent, to close yesterday's session at 498.52 points. On the HCM City Stock Exchange, up to 25 of the top 30 shares by market ...

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Wild Wild West

Barry Sonnenfeld's "Wild Wild West" is a giant, bombastic flop of a movie. It's a $100-million science fiction-Western-comedy-action hybrid with elaborate special effects and big name stars that never manages to balance itself, let alone gain momentum. It just sort of chugs along on good intentions and the hope that some of its tedious jokes might land with something other than a thud. ...

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  • Russians talk up trade in Far East

    Russians talk up trade in Far East HA NOI (VNS)-- President Truong Tan Sang greeted visiting Russian Minister for Far East Development V. I. Ishaev in Ha Noi yesterday, expressing the country's support for Vietnamese companies investing in the Far East. Welcoming preparations for the second round of negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement, Sang proposed the Russian side devise ...

  • US offers to help fight emerging epidemics

    US offers to help fight emerging epidemics HA NOI (VNS)-- US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has said her country is committed to working with Viet Nam to combat emerging epidemics, especially infectious diseases, and to promote the transfer of technology to fight HIV/AIDS. Received by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Ha Noi yesterday, Sebelius stressed that the US ...

  • ILO to help improve social insurance laws

    ILO to help improve social insurance laws HA NOI (VNS)-- A project to improve the nation's social insurance system was launched by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) yesterday. The project on Strengthening the performance of the social insurance system in Viet Nam through improved legislation and legal framework ...

  • Lam Dong expands job training

    Lam Dong expands job training LAM DONG (VNS)-- The Central Highland province of Lam Dong plans to increase its financial support to local ethnic minority labourers so they can continue to attend vocational training schools. Lam Dong has more than 40 ethnic minority groups, accounting for 24 per cent of the province's population. For the past three years, the province has implemented a ...

  • Early intervention improves fertility odds

    Children play in Phu My Hung New Urban Area in HCM City. Infertile couples are given stronger hope of having children with the development of modern intervention science and technology. -- VNA/VNS Photo The ...

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