Although affirming the stable ratings on Vietnam’s debt payment ability, the international credit rating agency Fitch warned that it would downgrade the country if current uncertainties continue.
Teachers and school management staffs in HCM City are being trained on ways to prevent the spread of dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth disease as the new school year opens.
Four Utah State University graduate students and two professors recently spent a month in Vietnam training teachers to work with hearing-impaired children.
The Canadian smart phone manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) entered the Vietnam phone market last month, following cooperative agreements with the country’s largest network operators.
State President Truong Tan Sang noted that Hanoi and Vientiane played an important role in realising cooperative ideas set by the high-ranking leaders of Vietnam and Laos.
US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed progress towards a security handover from US to Afghan forces by 2014, the White House said.
A famous YouTube clip of two policemen fighting in HCM City has now been hilariously turned into two “Star Wars” masters fighting each other with lightsabers.
The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the British Embassy held a ceremony to mark the UK’s financial support for a project to review Vietnam’s business laws.