UN officials visit Central Highlands provinces

Sun, 05/16/2004 - 14:40


05/15/2004 -- 21:30(GMT+7)

Dac Lac, May 15 (VNA) - A group of officials from United Nations agencies in Viet Nam visited the central highlands provinces of Kon Tum, Gia Lai, and Dac Lac from May 12-15 to study key socio-economic development indexes for the UN to develop its next five-year cooperation and development plan with Viet Nam.

The officials were from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organisation, and the International Labour Organisation.

Foreign tourists to Viet Nam increase

Tue, 05/04/2004 - 18:57


05/04/2004 -- 19:05(GMT+7)

Ha Noi, May 4 (VNA) - The number of foreign tourists to Viet Nam in the first four months of this year reached 933,800, an annual increase of 7.6 percent, according to the Viet Nam Administration of Tourism (VAT).

In April, 219,000 foreign tourists visited the country, a year-on-year increase of 38.7 percent. The number of tourists from the Republic of Korea tripled, while those from the US increased 2.2 times, from France, 1.7 times, from Japan and Taiwan 1.5 times.

Dien Bien Phu: a victory for all oppressed peoples

Tue, 05/04/2004 - 17:47

By Thanh Ha, Viet Nam News

Half a century after the victory at Dien Bien Phu, the commander of the campaign, General Vo Nguyen Giap, talks about the legacy of the battle.

Q: General, could you explain the historical significance of the Dien Bien Phu victory?

A: With the victory at Dien Bien Phu and other battlefields throughout the winter and spring of 1953-54, our army and people inflicted heavy losses on the French Expeditionary Corps.

Vatican envoy visits Dac Lac in aftermath of troubles

Tue, 05/04/2004 - 17:39



HA NOI — Monsignor Pietro Parolin, Vatican under-secretary for foreign affairs, said foreign media reports about the April 10 incident in Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) were untrue and had misled many, especially religious people, in Italy.

Parolin and his entourage visited Dac Lac Province in Tay Nguyen last Friday and met with chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, Nguyen Van Lang.

City hammock maker files patent suit in US

Wed, 04/28/2004 - 12:17



HCM CITY — A HCM City hammock maker has filed a patent rights lawsuit against a Taiwanese man in the US.

The director of the privately-owned Duy Loi Company, Lam Tan Loi, said his Taiwan-based distribution agent had received a letter a few weeks ago ordering him to stop importing his hammocks as a similar brand had already been registered.

Loi had the Pham and Associates law firm investigate the case and discovered a man named Chung Sen Wu had received a US patent for a portable hammock exactly like Duy Loi’s.

Foreigners come to Vietnam for healthcare services

Wed, 04/28/2004 - 12:08


The number of overseas Vietnamese and foreigners using healthcare services at Vietnamese clinics is increasing.

Healthcare cost in Vietnam is now cheaper than some ASEAN countries.
Good equipment, quick operations, reasonable prices are the reasons attracting foreigners to Vietnamese clinics, according to Dr. Phan Thanh Hai, Director of the HCM City-based Medic Centre, which attracts many foreigners.

Dac Lac disorder planned abroad: province chairman

Wed, 04/28/2004 - 11:59



DAC LAC — Dac Lac authorities have told US diplomats the leader of the group the Vietnamese Government blames for the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) disturbance had planned the event carefully.

"On April 9, one day before the out-break of the disturbances, the US-based Montagnard Fund, with Ksor Kok at the helm, reported that 150,000 local residents would take part in the demonstration," the chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, Nguyen Van Lang, told Noah Zaring from the US Embassy in Ha Noi, and Marc Forino, from the US Consulate General in HCM City.

Vietnam waging war on corruption

Thu, 04/22/2004 - 10:44



VietNamNet – Vietnam has shown progress in fighting corruption, especially the use of international methodology and consultancy to detect and effectively tackle manifestations of corruption, said World Bank’s Lead Economist in Vietnam Martin Rama.

Vietnam should pursue administrative reform, said WB. The comment was delivered at the press conference announcing the WB’s East Asia Update report in Hanoi on April 20.

Ex-Saigon regime's vice president pledges reconciliation

Thu, 04/22/2004 - 10:42



Almost thirty years after he left the country at the end of a bitter war, an ex-vice president of the old Saigon regime returned home as an overseas Vietnamese and has pledged to act for national reconciliation.

"It's time to put the past behind us, forget the hatred, look towards the future and try for Vietnam to earn a place in the world, ex-general Nguyen Cao Ky said at an interview with the Voice of America on Sunday.

Beauty of Central Highlands undisturbed

Thu, 04/22/2004 - 10:32



LAM DONG — A four-day trip to the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) this week seemed to please Spanish tour leader Aznar Fernandes Fernando who, when asked for his opinion of the trip, said: "very good, very enjoyable."

Aznar took a group of fellow Spaniards to the remote province of Gia Lai from April 15 to 18, an area where some Western news organisations had reported "unrest" and "suppression of ethnic minority people" a week earlier.

But Aznar, 45, described the area as "dramatically peaceful and highly secure."

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