• Job training draws an extra one million

    08/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Vocational training programmes have had an estimated 1.64 million attendees this year, a jump of about 1 million above the average in recent years. Viet Nam now has 102 vocational training colleges, 265 vocational high schools, 864 vocational...

  • Cost of parking to be regulated

    08/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Ha Noi People’s Committee has just regulated fees for parking on city streets and near residential buildings. A carpark on Co Tan street in Ha Noi. New regulations by Ha Noi People’s Committee force drivers to pay fees for parking on the city’s...

  • Government orders halt to delta sand exports

    07/10/2009 05:00

    Customs Departments in Mekong Delta provinces have begun enforcing a Government directive banning the export of sand and gravel dredged from the various channels of the Mekong River. There has been an export frenzy in the Delta since May, when Cambodia...

  • Saigon River’s embankment overflowed

    07/10/2009 05:00

    A flood tide which began rising in the evening of October 6 has damaged parts of the Saigon River embankment, submerging roads and flooding houses in HCM City. Many sections of the Saigon River’s embankment in Thu Duc District and District 12 were...

  • US provides $500,000 to typhoon victims

    07/10/2009 05:00

    The US Embassy in Vietnam on October 7 announced an additional $500,000 for typhoon-hit central Vietnam. This grant will be supplied via the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and responds to the call from the International Red Cross to...

  • Ketsana earns dubious distinction

    07/10/2009 05:00

    The 800-odd casualties and over VND14 trillion (US$785.85 million) in property loss made Ketsana one of the worst storms to strike Vietnam in 40 years, the national flood and storm control committee has said....

  • Miraculous return for 33 missing fishermen after typhoon

    07/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Two fishing boats reported missing in typhoon Ketsana returned to Sa Ky port, the central province of Quang Ngai province on October 6 one week after they went missing. One of the two missing boats that returned on October 6. The...

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