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Many girls pursuing high school or tertiary education have opted to earn money by acting as sex workers. Many female students are seduced into easy money through the sex industry Student prostitutes According to the Ministry of Public Security, recently Hanoi and HCM City have detected several cases where many girl students have acted as [...]
Many businesses, agencies and domestic and foreign social organizations have joined charitable activities to help the poor and disadvantaged in the central and southern provinces prepare for the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival. In the central province of Binh Thuan, the Lawrence S.Ting Community Support Fund in Ho Chi Minh City, in cooperation with the [...]
The Vietnam Golden Heart Fund made its debut in Hanoi on January 12, calling on individuals, organisations, and benefactors both at home and abroad to join hands to help the poor, AO/dioxin victims and families of martyrs and invalids. At the launch ceremony, war veteran-turned entrepreneur Nguyen Ngoc Khoi, who is one of the fund [...]
Internal strife has been ruining the education environment at local private universities where economic interests, instead of teaching or other educational issues, now dominate attention. “Our board meetings have never been centred on education or the school’s development plans, but on financial issues instead,” says Nguyen Ngoc, chairman of the board of directors at [...]
Vietnam has earned $515 million in revenue from exporting vegetables and fruit to become the fifth largest exporter in the world. In 2011, Vietnam’s vegetables and fruit exports have increased by 40.6 percent compared to last year due to the growing consumer demand in the Asian market, especially from China, Japan, Indonesia and the Republic [...]
Vietnam is ready to celebrate Teacher’s Day, its biggest festival of the year for educators, with many art activities. Music shows A show titled “Teachers in integration time”, to be held by the Ho Chi Minh City Education Newspaper, will take place at the Lan Anh Music Stage at 7pm on November 19. The show, [...]
Tran Van Khe, a renowned Vietnamese music professor, is set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in Music from the San Francisco – Ho Chi Minh City Sister City Committee on Sunday, November 20 for his contributions to the study and research of traditional Vietnamese music. A delegation of the committee paid a visit to [...]
The mysterious robbery at Tin Huy gold shop in central Quang Ngai Province’s Binh Son District is no more than a play set up by the owner and her relative, said local police department after the four-day investigation. After analyzing the scene, fingerprints, and personal identities of the suspects, the police have arrested the 22-year-old Ngo Quang [...]
Nearly every morning for more than half a century, 85-year-old Ruth Ziolkowski rises around dawn, puts her feet on the ground and gives thanks she is part of a dream. Since 1947, she has worked at the Crazy Horse monument to Native Americans in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where she is leading the [...]
Local authorities and industrial enterprises, in a master plan to protect the environment, are moving ahead with the projects on generating electricity from organic rubbish and redundant heat in the production process. According to Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon, the HCM City Department is considering building power plants which generate power from the rubbish gathered [...]