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As Liverpool begin their search for a successor to Kenny Dalglish, the burning question is how the once dominant force in English football can become top dogs again? Dalglish, who had his contract terminated on Wednesday after the club’s worst Premier League finish for almost 20 years, was part of the great Liverpool sides of [...]
On May 16, State President Truong Tan Sang received a delegation of former cadres, who served late President Ho Chi Minh, to mark his 122nd birthday anniversary. Delegation members expressed their feelings and recalled their profound memories of the time they worked with and served President HCM. At the reception, President Sang showed his respect [...]
Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency has found a black box flight recorder from a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed during a demonstration flight killing all 45 people on board, an agency official said on Wednesday. The aircraft crashed on May 9 on the slopes of a dormant volcano about 40 miles (64 km) south [...]
A factory with a daily capacity of recycling 9 tons of plastic bags into PO and DO fuel began operations April 20th in the central city of Da Nang. Vietnam’s first factory to turn nylon bags into fuel. The VND120 billion (US$5.8 million) factory is the first phase of a 520 billion project to [...]
Students nowadays do not want to study at pedagogical schools to become teachers, even though they do not have to pay tuition for university study. Students turn their backs to pedagogical schools In 1998, the government released a decision on exempting tuitions for pedagogical schools in an effort to attract more students to the schools [...]
A 28-year-old mother and her three children in northern Bac Giang Province have died after eating cakes made by the woman from mould-gray corn flour, authorities reported. The incident began on April 24 when all four, of Kep B Hamlet, Minh Son Commune, Bac Me District, complained of abdomen pain, dizziness and vomited with blood [...]
Japan now has over 214,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry without overseas investments. This situation offers Vietnam opportunities to attract these firms in a bid to develop the feeble supporting industry at home. After more than 16 years of operating as the leading auto firm on the local market, Toyota has [...]
With vast gardens of green coconut trees, Ben Tre Province is considered the “capital” of coconuts in Vietnam. For the local people, coconut trees have a special place in their cultural life as well as the economic development process. Situated in the Cuu Long River Delta, Ben Tre Province has favourable soil conditions for the [...]
Ornamental fish breeding has been a popular Hanoian hobby for decades, but never has it been so expensive or rare A fish tank containing arowana fish valued at thousands of dollars each at a house in Hanoi Together with growing bonsai trees and bird keeping, ornamental fish breeding is one of Hanoian men’s favorite pastimes. [...]
Ingrid Biraud had to pay ten times the normal fare for a taxi from Tan Son Nhat International Airport to Ben Thanh Market during her visit to Ho Chi Minh City last month. “When we arrived in the center, the counter read VND150,000 (US$7.2) but the driver said not ‘enough money’,” said the French tourist. [...]