Party and State leaders receive Cao Dai representatives

Thu, 09/04/2003 - 17:23

(09/03/2003 -- 22:59GMT+7)

Ha Noi, September 3 (VNA)- Tong Thi Phong, Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam's Central Committee and Pham Gia Khiem, Deputy Prime Minister on Wednesday received on separate occasions dignitaries of the Cao Dai religious sect who are visiting Ha Noi.

Representatives of Cao Dai Executive Council’s Committee for Religious Reform and Cao Dai Bach y expressed their gratitude for the Party and the State for ensuring freedom of belief and for their care of the life of the Cao Dai believers.

Viet Nam's eight-month export value - US$ 13.3 billion

Tue, 08/26/2003 - 11:41


(08/26/2003)

Ha Noi, Aug. 26 (VNA) - Viet Nam's export value grew at 27.5 percent to 13.3 billion USD in the first eight months of this year, with the foreign-invested sector posting a 38.2 percent growth to nearly 6.7 billion USD and the domestic economic sector, 18.3 percent, said the General Statistics Office.

Coffee enjoyed the highest growing rate of 64.5 percent in export value, due to the hike in prices, while the volume of exports decreased by 6 percent year-on-year.

VN students win at International Olympiads in Informatics in U.S.

Mon, 08/25/2003 - 11:30

Eleventh-grade student Nguyen Le Huy won a gold medal at the Microsoft-sponsored 15th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2003) held at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin, from August 16-23.

Huy's other three contenders, all students of mathematics and informatics at the College of Natural Sciences of the Hanoi National University, won prizes - a silver by Cao Thanh Tung, and bronze by Phan Tran Duc and Dinh Ngoc Thang.

Domestic firms call for competition reforms

Fri, 08/22/2003 - 12:11



HA NOI — Business leaders are feeling the pressure from foreign competitors and have called on both Government and business to make substantial changes so Viet Nam’s economic integration will be a success.

The entrepreneurs sounded the warning at a symposium in Ha Noi on Sunday, where they gathered to suggest ways to stimulate a domestic economy they described as "not competitive and sluggish."

VN condemns UN blast

Fri, 08/22/2003 - 12:07


HA NOI — Viet Nam has sent its sympathies to the victims of a car bomb which tore through the United Nations’ headquarters in Baghdad on Tuesday.

"We were very shocked at the bomb attack on the UN headquarters in Iraq on August 19, causing huge losses in life and property, and we strongly condemn this violent action," Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman, Le Dung, said on Wednesday.

Ha Noi’s past gets a facelift

Wed, 08/20/2003 - 12:06

by Phuong Anh

An old postcard of Ha Noi’s Old Quarter would show a district that is worlds apart from today’s hustle and bustle, as the capital city’s trademark is quickly losing touch with its ancient features.

Leading historian Duong Trung Quoc is among the Hanoians who are getting homesick without leaving the city, as they feel out of touch with their own past.

"There is very little space of the Old Quarter left unchanged," he laments. "This is reflected in the architecture as well as the local spirit and culture."

The belated reunion of a war photographer and his subject

Tue, 08/19/2003 - 00:42



by Tri Binh

He became famous through a war photograph – then disappeared.

Soldier Le Xuan Chinh was presumed dead by many, including the man who took the well-known picture, former war correspondent Doan Cong Tinh.

In fact the young fighter had survived the horrendous fighting in the American War. But only to go on to a life of poverty in the remote north.

How Chinh finally found redemption is a tale of compassion and coincidence – all of it revolving around that one photograph.

A rocket-launcher by his side

Ten-year-old boy wins maths prize

Tue, 08/19/2003 - 00:37



HCM CITY — A fifth-grade student from HCM City has developed software on math study for first-grade students.

Nguyen Khanh Anh Hoang, 10, a student at the Nguyen Dinh Chinh Primary School in Phu Nhuan District, won one of five top prizes for his software "I Love Studying Math" at a national competition for young information technology (IT) students, held recently in Da Nang.

Speech by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan

Thu, 08/07/2003 - 10:43



WTO Seminar, Hanoi Aug 5-6, 2003

Ladies and Gentlemen:

First of all, on behalf of the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, I would like to highly appreciate the initiative of New York Life International and U.S. – Vietnam Trade Council, and other significant Vietnamese agencies, to cooperate in organizing this seminar on the relevant topic of Vietnam acceding membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The winding road to WTO more difficult each day

Wed, 08/06/2003 - 10:29


VietNamNet – At the Moving towards WTO membership workshop on August 6, Demetrios J. Marantis, legal chief advisor of the Vietnam–US Trade Council said that Vietnam should accelerate its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) because the path will become increasingly difficult. In addition, after the Doha round, new conditions for WTO membership may be set.

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