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  • Govt urged to provide credit fund support

    Farmers receive a loan from the People's Credit Fund in Bac Giang Province's Luc Ngan District. People's credit funds should be allowed to offer cheap credit services to compete with commercial banks, experts say. -- VNA/VNS Photo Dinh ...

  • Reforms improve Da Nangs ranking

    Local people complete administrative procedures at Hai Chau district in Da Nang. The central city has simplified administrative procedures at 32 agencies. -- VNS Photo Cong ...

  • Central region plans ahead with drought-resistant rice

    Central region plans ahead with drought-resistant rice HCM CITY (VNS)-- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has instructed central provinces to plant rice varieties that are drought resistant and have shorter maturing periods in this year's summer-autumn crop. The summer-autumn rice crop, which lasts until September, is the main rice crop of the central region. However, ...

  • Vietnam Memorial Replica at Sumter Iris Festival

    Sumter, SC (WLTX) - A replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall has been set up for Memorial Day weekend at the Iris Festival in ...

  • VN needs more support to clear bombs mines

    VN needs more support to clear bombs, mines HA NOI (VNS)-- Viet Nam is seeking further international support in its continued attempt to overcome the consequences of post-war bombs and mines that still litter the country. This is among the many actions to be taken under a national programme to deal with post-war ordnance from now until 2015. The plan, which was outlined in a Prime ...

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Paranormal Activity 3

Paranormal Activity 3

As the third part of a triptych that, given the enormous opening weekend at the box office, will surely become a tetraptych by this time next year, Paranormal Activity 3 has even less opportunity than its immediate predecessor to do anything new. Directors Henry ... ...

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  • Draft decree clamps down on imports of obsolete machinery

    Draft decree clamps down on imports of obsolete machinery HCM CITY (VNS)-- A draft decree prepared by the Ministry of Science and Technology seeks to tighten controls over the import of machinery, equipment and production lines by State-owned enterprises (SOEs). The decree aims to stop the inflow of obsolete technologies into the country, Dau Tu (Vietnam Investment Review) newspaper report ...

  • Alarm raised over power security

    Workers of the Power Transmission Company No4 clear trees along power lines in southern Dong Nai Province. Concerns over the security of the national power grid were raised after a massive blackout in 22 southern provinces on Wednesday. -- VNA/VNS Photo Ngoc ...

  • Residents to drink filtered pond water

    Residents to drink filtered pond water HA NOI (VNS)-- Authorities in Ha Noi plan to install water filters in 100 households in Quoc Oai suburban district who have been forced to use stagnant pond water for daily use due to a shortage of clean water. Deputy director of the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Dao Duy Tam said around 1,000 households in the district's ...

  • Healthy meals to be promoted in HCM City

    Healthy meals to be promoted in HCM City HCM CITY (VNS)-- The "Com ngon cong dong (Good meals for the public)" programme was launched in HCM City yesterday with the aim to provide meals with essential nutrition at reasonable prices for local employees. The meals will be sold in locations where there are a large number of workers such as industrial parks, schools and hospitals at ...

  • High-tech Chinese criminals prosecuted

    High-tech Chinese criminals prosecuted HAI PHONG (VNS)-- Police in the northern port city of Hai Phong decided to prosecute a group of four Chinese people allegedly involved in using high-tech devices to illegally appropriate billions of dong on Thursday. The four, aged between 20 and 49, were thought to have used forged credit cards to steal over VND3.9 billion (US$185,000), and ...

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