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  • Investors eye up industry potential

    A corner of Bao Minh Industrial Zone in the northern province of Nam Dinh. Over the past 20 years, industrial, economic and export processing zones have become an attractive destination for investors, especially foreign ones. -- VNA/VNS Photo Danh ...

  • Azerbaijani ambassador presents credentials to Vietnamese President

    Azerbaijani ambassador to Vietnam Anar Imanov has presented his credentials to President of this country Truong Tan Sang. The ambassador conveyed greetings of President Ilham Aliyev to Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang. The Vietnamese President, in turn, asked the diplomat to convey his greetings and best wishes to President Ilham ...

  • VN encourages foreign home buyers

    HA NOI (VNS)-- Regulations on foreigners' rights to buy houses in Viet Nam could be loosened further in a bid to stimulate the domestic property market. The Ministry of Construction has announced a review of the current regulations, due to take place in the coming months with possibility of the law coming into force by 2015. The policy allowing foreigners to buy houses was first ...

  • Viettel mulls ambitious expansion

    Customers register for the services of Star Telcom (Unitel), a joint venture between Viettel and Lao Asia Telecom. Viettel plans to expand to other developing countries in 2015. -- VNA/VNS Photo Hoang ...

  • Tax code reforms to decipher dependents

    People pay taxes at a State Treasury in District 1, HCM City. FromJuly, not ony personal income tax payers but also their dependents will be granted tax codes. It is expected to improve tax management and better implement the amended Personal Income Tax Law which takes effect in July. -- VNA/VNS Photo Pham ...

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Onibaba [DVD]

Onibaba [DVD]

Kaneto Shindos Onibaba, which was made independently outside of the Japanese studio system, is an atmospheric melodrama based on an ancient Buddhist folk tale. Set in the Warring States period of feudal Japan, it tells the story of desperate people trying to not just s ... ...

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  • UN congratulates Viet Nam gay rights progress

    People at the HCM City Labour Cultural Palace during a recent gay rights campaign that was organised in most big cities around the country. -- Photo Courtesy of ...

  • State Bank package fires property market

    State Bank package fires property market HCM CITY (VNS)-- Property developers are beginning to sell apartments in anticipation of the State Bank's credit package of VND30,000 billion (US$1.5 billion) for builders, the Sai Gon Giai Phong ( Liberated Saigon) newspaper reported. One developer, the Thuy Loi 4A Property Investment Joint Stock Co, for example, showed a sample apartment in its ...

  • Bamboo plantations stem poverty in Lam Dong

    LAM DONG (VNS)-- Co Xanh Company has begun to buy the bamboo harvested by farmers in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong's Da Teh District. As part of a poverty alleviation programme initiated by the provincial authorities and non-profit Winrock International five years ago, Co Xanh is expected to buy some 28,000 tam vong bamboo trees this week from plantations in Huong Lam and An ...

  • Lower land-use fees help City homeowners

    Lower land-use fees help City homeowners HCM CITY (VNS)-- Lower land-use fees will help residents in HCM City become homeowners and have better access to land-use right certificates, according to a source from the city's People's Committee. The decision to reduce land-use fees was made at the 99th meeting of the HCM City Party Committee's Standing Board held on Thursday. ...

  • Central coast eyes huge tourist wave

    Central coast eyes huge tourist wave HCM CITY (VNS)-- Tourism investors are hoping the central coast will become a new Phuket or Bali, and have continued to build resorts and other tourism destinations in the region despite the recession and property-market slump. The Liberated Saigon quoted an investor as saying it is difficult to find beaches as beautiful as the ones between Da Nang and ...

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