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Toba Mika’s new painting exhibition
08/12/2010 05:00
Japanese painter Toba Mika has pursued only one topic for 16 years: Vietnam. Her latest exhibition opened in Hanoi on December 6. Japanese artist Toba Mika and art critic Phan Cam Thuong. The exhibition entitled “Nara and Hanoi – Linking Eternal...
Slow construction of Thang Long Avenue costs Vietnam $50 million
08/12/2010 05:00
Inspectors announced that the slow pace of Vietnam’s longest avenue project cost the country at least an additional VND1 trillion dong (over $500 million). The Ministry of Transport approved the project to expand the Lang-Hoa Lac road in July 2003 at...
Two Misses Vietnam appear at Fashion Week
08/12/2010 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – Miss Vietnam 2008 Thuy Dung and Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han appeared at the fashion show introducing collections by 20 Vietnamese designers at the French Consulate General in HCM City on December 4. The show, entitled Vietnam Fashion...
HCM City to host int’l gastronomy festival
08/12/2010 05:00
The festival will take place within a week at HCM City’s 23/9 Park from December 26, 2010 through January 2, 2011. There will be 60 stalls, presenting cuisines and culture from 24 countries. The festival promises to be very interesting...
Imbalances create worker shortages
07/12/2010 05:00
Viet Nam has a huge shortage of human resources to cope with pressing urbanisation and climate change issues, a national conference was told yesterday, Dec 6. Viet Nam has a huge shortage of human resources to cope with...
Vietnamese beauties shine in the UK
07/12/2010 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – The first-ever Vietnamese fashion show in the UK took place in London on December 5 evening. The most famous Vietnamese models presented around 100 costumes by Vietnamese famous fashion designers Gosto, Kelly Bui and Hoang Hai at the Grange...
Vietnam hosts animal trafficking summit
06/12/2010 05:00
Smuggled wildlife animals being confiscated by Vietnamese authorities. Key international and national organizations met in Hanoi on Thursday in a summit designed to bolster co-operation in tackling the illegal trans-boundary wildlife trade....