Archive for December 11th, 2008
Hanoi (VNA) – The aerospace company Boeing has granted 30 scholarships, worth 1,000 USD each, to students enrolled on the information technology (IT) training course organised by the Vietnam Software Engineering Group (SEG Vietnam). The Boeing scholarships were presented to outstanding but disadvantaged students from SEG Vietnam who study at Duy Tan University ( Da [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – Central bankers of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will hold regular meetings to discuss regional economic and financial issues, Chinese media reported on December 10. The mechanism is aimed to enhance dialogue among the financial policymakers of those countries, China’s central bank said in a statement. The exchange will [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – The armies of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have moved forward in enhancing and institutionalising their regional cooperation at the 9th ASEAN Chiefs of Armies Multilateral Meeting (ACAMM) in the Philippines.“We have moved forward from 8th ACAMM in enhancing and institutionalising regional cooperation,” Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a budget of more than 2.3 trillion VND for a national programme to cope with climate change from 2009 to 2015.The budget, expected to come from non-refundable aid and long-term soft loans, will support the programme implementers to assess levels of climate change impacts on [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – Over 300 Vietnamese doctors and nurses have enjoyed the seventh symposium of the Asian Spinal Cord Network (ASCoN), a chance for them to get updated with advanced spinal cord lesion management and treatment from their Asian counterparts.Some 67 doctors and experts on spinal cord from 20 Asian countries participated in the three-day [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – The second Hanoi forum on Information-Communication Technology (ICT-Hanoi 2008), themed “ICT industry issues and challenges”, opened in Hanoi on Dec. 11. Prof. Dao Trong Thi, chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children and almost 200 policy makers, IT businessmen and specialists from the US, France, Finland, Germany, [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – A US dollar has cost more than 17,200 dong on the black market in recent weeks, while the official exchange rate has reached almost 17,000 – the upper reaches of the daily trading band. The daily trading band is now at plus or minus 3 percent against the interbank rate. On Dec. [...]
HA NOI—Traffic police nationwide would begin a campaign next Tuesday to ensure traffic safety and social order for the Tet holiday, said Tran Son, vice head of the Traffic Accident Investigation and Law Instruction Unit under the Ministry of Public Security.
The traffic police would mobilise their force to the maximum extent to implement this campaign, [...]
HA NOI — Brokerages serving the OTC market will form a co-operative working system under the Ha Noi Securities Trading Centre aimed at boosting the effectiveness of investments in this market, under a draft rule currently being circulated by the centre for comment.
Referring to the new, more tightly regulated OTC market as the market of [...]