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  Lack of space for new wharves and uncertain profit prospects have prompted an investor to withdraw from a waterway bus project in Ho Chi Minh City. "We did have great hopes of carrying out the project. However, we have to scrap it after two years of study because of too many difficulties," said Nguyen...

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  The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has pledged to provide US$3.8 million in non-refundable aid to a project to control drug-resistant bacteria in Vietnam. The project will be carried out from 2012 to 2017 in Hanoi, Thai Binh, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. Under the project, JICA...

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  A foreign language class at Nong Lam University in Ho Chi Minh City Education officers admitted at a Friday conference that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has been a “failure,” as many college students cannot use the languages. Experts at the conference...

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  A foreign language class at Nong Lam University in Ho Chi Minh City Education officers admitted at a Friday conference that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has been a “failure,” as many college students cannot use the languages. Experts at the conference...

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  Japanese experts check Thu Thiem Tunnel before it was officially open to traffic under the Saigon River on Sunday   The longest cross-river tunnel in southeast Asia, Thu Thiem, was opened to traffic across the Saigon River in southern Vietnam on Sunday. A big ceremony...

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  Vietnamese lawmakers questioned the safety of projects to build golf courses in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Hanoi’s Gia Lam Airport at a National Assembly session on Thursday. NA Deputy Vo Thi Dung from Ho Chi Minh City delivered her question to Prime Minister Nguyen...

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  Vietnam’s new cabinet makes a strong start with several “smart technocrats”, but economic woes and lack of transparency pose hurdles, according to analysts Residents fishing next to Han River bridge in central coastal city of Da Nang. New Transport...

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  The central government currently doesn’t have enough money to build a huge statue commemorating women whose children and husbands sacrificed in wars in the central province of Quang Nam, the VnExpress news website said. Quang Nam’s authorities last week announced that they need...

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  Land-locked neighbor reveals plans to start construction of controversial dam months before regional meeting decides on the issue A handout photo released by the US-based environmental group International Rivers shows construction on the Xayaburi dam’s access road and work-camps...

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  A file photo taken just downstream of the proposed site for the Xayaburi dam. Thailand doesn’t actually need the power the massive hydroelectric dam will create, experts have said. Laos plans to start construction this year on the $3.8 billion Thai-financed Xayaburi hydropower...

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