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  • US offers to help Vietnam fight emerging epidemics

    US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has said her country is committed to working with Vietnam 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 and Vietnamese health sectors enjoyed close collaboration ...

  • New industrial zone to lure Japanese firms

    Construction of the Phu My 3 Industrial Zone starts today in the south-eastern province of Ba Ria Vung Tau to predominantly house Japanese companies. Viet Nam News spoke to Nguyen Thi Thao Nhi, CEO of the Thanh Binh Phu My Joint Stock Company, the major investor in the zone, about its strengths and commitment to the province's ...

  • Thaco to produce truck engines

    Cars manufactured at Thaco Kia Factory in the Chu Lai-Truong Hai Auto Complex in Quang Nam Province. Car engines will soon be produced locally. -- VNA/VNS Photo Tran ...

  • Luxembourg helps local finance sector to develop

    by Vu Hoa HA NOI (VNS)-- Viet Nam has praised the Government of Luxembourg's co-operation and support, especially in the finance sector. Truong Chi Trung, deputy minister of Finance revealed this at the Viet Nam-Luxembourg Finance Forum in Ha Noi yesterday. The forum was to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Trung said the ...

  • Banks offer low rate loans to businesses

    Banks offer low rate loans to businesses HCM CITY (VNS)-- Sacombank and seven other banks yesterday signed credit contracts worth more than VND1,209 billion (US$57.5 million) to support 44 businesses and six households in District 9 and Thu Duc District. The other banks are Agribank, Vietinbank, BIDV, DongA Bank, Eximbank, HDBank and OCB. Sacombank will offer a total of VND50 billion ($2.38 ...

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Jeepers Creepers

Despite the snicker-inducing silliness of its titlewhich is taken from Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren's '30s-era tune for plot-related reasons that are notably strainedVictor Salva's Jeepers Creepers is actually a grimly effective horror movie ... for the first half hour. The set-up, which involves a brother and sister terrorized on their drive home from college for spring break, is simple ... ...

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  • Recovery of blue chips buoys VN index

    Recovery of blue chips buoys VN index HA NOI (VNS)-- Shares continued to sway between gains and losses in the afternoon before closing slightly higher on both stock exchanges yesterday. The benchmark VN-Index on the HCM City Stock Exchange closed up 0.07 per cent at 498.88 points, ending a six-day falling streak. Market conditions were negative, with 101 codes falling, 95 rising and 112 ...

  • Health on the agenda

    US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius at Children's Hospital 1 in HCM City yesterday during her visit to Viet Nam to boost medical co-operation between the two countries. -- VNA/VNS Photo Phuong ...

  • Health on the agenda

    US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius at Children's Hospital 1 in HCM City yesterday during her visit to Viet Nam to boost medical co-operation between the two countries. -- VNA/VNS Photo Phuong ...

  • 700 tourists left stranded

    700 tourists left stranded HCM CITY (VNS)-- A dispute over money between a Vietnamese travel firm and its Thai partner saw 700 Vietnamese package tourists being stranded in Bangkok and ending up paying their own bills and fending for themselves. "It was the worst tour I have ever taken in my life," said one of the unfortunate visitors, a woman who wished to remain unnamed, after ...

  • First Korean-language newspaper hits shelves

    First Korean-language newspaper hits shelves HA NOI (VNS)-- The Vietnam-Korea Times - Viet Nam's first Korean language newspaper made its debut in Ha Noi yesterday. It is a collaboration between Vietnam Pictorial, a Viet Nam News Agency (VNA) publication, and a newspaper for the Republic of Korea's (RoK) overseas citizens. The paper aims to strengthen the strategic partnership ...

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