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VnnNews – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified a scheme to develop a team of lawyers to serve the country’s international integration between 2010 and 2020. Following recent discussions with lawyers, PM Nguyen Tan Dung said that since 2001, the number of lawyers has risen by 250 percent. VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister...

Making safer and higher quality products is not difficult but their biggest concern is how to get their products to the consumers. As it stands, supermarket remains the only distribution channel for processed seafood Nguyen Thi Hai, the owner of Hanoi Supermarket Chain said that consumers nowadays have high requirements for  the quality...

Not only Viettel but also VinaPhone and MobiFone will distribute iPhones in Vietnam in the next few months.  Vice chief of VinaPhone’s Business Department Pham Ngoc Tu said that VinaPhone would distribute iPhone 3G and 3GS in Vietnam. VinaPhone had originally kept silence to respect Apple’s wishes. The two sides signed a contract...

To mark the international conference introducing Vietnamese literature to the world (January 5-10), Tuoi Tre Cuoi Tuan reviews the impact Vietnamese literature is making internationally. From the left: writers Phan Thi Vang Anh, Le Minh Khue, Ho Anh Thai and Nguyen Huy Thiep at the Gothenburg International Book Fair in Sweden 2003. In...

VnnNews - The Vietnam Fund for Supporting Technological Creations honored 66 winners of its 10th competition for technical creativity at a function held at the Hanoi Opera House January 19.  The awards ceremony for the 10th technical creativity competition was held at Hanoi’s Opera House January 19. It gave away six first prizes...

Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu’s proposal to set up the National Committee for Food Safety was rejected by the National Assembly Standing Committee on January 19.  Trieu said that with 9.4 million farmer households directly producing agricultural products and with traders selling foods at small markets, not to mention a long...

The film ‘Sky without Stars’ will be introduced to Vietnamese audiences.VnnNews – Seven typical German films which were produced in between 1940-1950 will be on screen in Hanoi from January 25 to 31 to mark the 60 years of German cinema.This is part of the programme titled ‘German Year in Vietnam’, which will introduce...

MOF said that it can see many problems in the equitisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Vietcombank was the first equitised bankAccording to the group, by early 2009, Vietnam had re-arranged 5,556 SOEs and general corporations, including equitisation of 3,854 enterprises, or 69.4 percent of the total re-arranged SOEs. Equitisation...

VnnNews – More and more Vietnamese people are making online purchases from the US because they believe it allows them to get the best quality products at original prices. However, they have been told to be cautious when making online purchases. Vietnamese consumers began rushing to purchase goods from the US six months ago. The economic...

VnnNews – The Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) is now facing criticism for moving into steelmaking – an area where it is considered to have little expertise. Vinashin’s Chairman Pham Thanh Binh (second from left) and General Director of Cuu Long-Vinashin Nguyen Tuan DuongHowever, the group denies the charge...