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As eight provinces and cities have reported a slowdown of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), the Ministry of Health has decided not to announce a HFMD pandemic. The decision was announced yesterday by Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan at an online conference with eight provinces and cities that have been most affected by HFMD: Hanoi, [...]
Vietnam has a big “gold mine” – the heritage – which is very attractive to travelers. However, Vietnam’s tourism industry still does now how to exploit the mine. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has decided to name the 2012 tourism year “the national tourism year of coastal provinces in the north of the [...]
Spending a few days at a coastal resort on hot, dry days or visiting pagodas during summer retreats are among many things for tourists to experience. Subsidiaries of Saigontourist Holding Company are launching summer tours of various itineraries and prices so that customers can easily choose one tailored to their interests. First-class tours As an [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors to Sa Dec Town in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap can admire gardens full of colorful flowers in spring time or visit Huynh Thuy Le House where French hit movie L’amant (The Lover) was filmed. But there is another side to this area of the delta and tourists [...]
A tour of the top of Ba Na Mountain in the central coast city of Danang is never complete without a walk around the Linh Ung-Ba Na Pagoda. This is one of the three Linh Ung pagodas in Danang with the other two being Linh Ung-Bai But on Son Tra Peninsula and Linh Ung-Non Nuoc [...]
Ba Vi National Park and its surroundings will be transformed into a geopark. The news was announced by Dr. Tram Tan Van, head of theInstitute of Geosciences and Mineral at the 2ndgeopark international conference, recently held inVietnam. Mr. Van remarked that Ba Vi National Park and its surroundings have still kept many sites of natural heritage, including ancient volcano activity and cultural values associated with [...]
Vietnamese firms are becoming more aware of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in terms of building brand, securing key staff and winning future contracts, said a recent report. For them, enhancing public attitude towards the brand is seen as most important (93 percent), followed by Investor Relations (89 percent) and Staff Recruitment and Retention (86 percent), [...]
German Falko Goetz will be the head coach of Vietnam ’s national football squad and Olympic team for the next two years. Goetz, 49, and Tran Quoc Tuan, Secretary General of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) signed a contract in Hanoi on June 6. The new coach said he hoped that with 30 years of [...]
Vietnam always attaches importance to Vietnam-Laos special relations and does its best to foster those ties, affirmed General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. General Secretary Trong, who doubles as National Assembly Chairman, made this affirmation while receiving Cheuang Sombounkhan, Minister-cum-Chief of the Lao Government Secretariat, in Hanoi on June 6. The Vietnamese Party leader expressed his [...]
I like to occasionally make beef jerky because it always seems like the stuff sold at markets is pricey. Plus, there’s never enough to satisfy me. A while back, I made a Vietnamese-stylelemongrass and chile jerky and used it for snacking and green papaya salads (goi du du). Most recently, I tried a jerky recipe [...]