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Royalty of foreign pay channels: unresolved issue
29/06/2011 05:00
Copyright exchange, negotiation or trading is such a pressing issue in Vietnam these days that the government is looking into the many ways to resolve this problem. More than 70 foreign pay channels are broadcasting in...
TV channel gets serious with teen serials
27/06/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Television has begun broadcast of several serials based on the lives of urban school students and their families during summer. Targeting teens : Popular young actress Phuong Trinh...
State firms told to reduce non-core investment operations
27/06/2011 05:00
The Vietnamese government will require state-invested enterprises to reduce the percentage of capital they invest in non-core business activities under a draft regulation compiled by the Ministry of Finance (MoF). In a draft decree on management and use...
Movement of hunting for old furniture breaks out
27/06/2011 05:00
The old wooden tables, chairs, wardrobes or beds, which several years ago would be considered too old and fit for the garbage can, are now being hunted by wooden furniture traders. Having become fed up with artificial wood, people now prefer natural wood made...
Hanoi in the ripe rice season
27/06/2011 05:00
The capital city’s suburban villages are now as beautiful as paintings in the harvest season. Harvesting rice in the afternoon in a field of My Duc district. Women are hastily cutting rice. A woman cannot...
New tax aims to banish plastic bags
24/06/2011 05:00
A special environmental tax will be imposed on non biodegradable plastic bags next year in an attempt to stop them being used to carry home goods from shops and markets. Environmental-friendly bags are distributed for...
Smoking may increase risk of prostate cancer recurrence, death: study
24/06/2011 05:00
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of California, San Francisco, researchers suggests that men with prostate cancer who smoke increase their risk of prostate cancer recurrence and of dying from the disease. The study will be...