• HCM City targets 10% growth

    29/12/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – HCM City aims to achieve a Gross Domestic Product growth rate of at least 10 per cent next year. HCM City is still the country’s biggest economic and service hub. The city aims to achieve a Gross Domestic Product growth rate of at least 10 per...

  • HCM City reallocates vacant public land

    HCM City reallocates vacant public land

    29/12/2009 05:00

    The HCM City People’s Committee decided to reallocate 58,000sq.m of disused public land in District 8 to make it available for schools and resettlement projects. Storehouse 627, a public land area on Ben Binh Dong Street, HCM City’s District 8 has been rent for...

  • Buddhist women discuss role in tackling global problems

    29/12/2009 05:00

    The role of Buddhist women in tackling emerging global issues is being discussed during a one-week international conference that opened yesterday in HCM City. Ceremony welcomes domestic and international Buddhist women to the 11th international conference held...

  • Quang Tri request government help to prevent cattle-smuggling

    Quang Tri request government help to prevent cattle-smuggling

    29/12/2009 05:00

    Quang Tri province’s officials met on December 28 to seek ways to control illegally-imported cattle into the province from Laos and Thailand. They agreed to ask for the government’s assistance. Quang Tri Vice-Chair Nguyen Huu Thang said that illegal...

  • Smoking ban and capital crimes among new 2010 regulations in Vietnam

    Smoking ban and capital crimes among new 2010 regulations in Vietnam

    29/12/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – A smoking ban on public sites and the abolition of the death penalty for eight crimes are among new regulations that will take effect as of January 1, 2010. A smoking ban on public sites and the abolition of the death penalty for eight...

  • Commune of big families

    Commune of big families

    28/12/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – A Ha Tinh commune is very famous for its big families. On average, each household has six to eight children. The largest ones have up to 14 children. This woman has 14 children. Eight of them have had their own families. (photo: hatinhonline)...

  • SOCIAL IN BRIEF 29/12

    SOCIAL IN BRIEF 29/12

    28/12/2009 05:00

    HCM City urged to deal with traffic congestion; HCM City holds first ethnic minority congress; Head-on collision kills eight in Soc Trang Province; Khmer kids learn native tongue HCM City urged to deal with traffic congestion Traffic jams are...

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