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BKAV offers early warning system against cyber attack
BKAV offers early warning system against cyber attack HCM CITY (VNS)-- The Bach Khoa Anti-virus Centre has promised to help companies and other organisations combat cyber attacks by providing them early warning systems. Its Network Inspector will look for signs of an attack and warn administrators through text messages or email. "In fact, online attacks are happening quietly around the ...
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NZ group to sell colostrum supplements in Viet Nam
NZ group to sell colostrum supplements in Viet Nam HCM CITY (VNS)-- New Zealand's New Image Group, which sells nutritional supplements made from cow colostrum, says its plan to penetrate the Southeast Asian market by starting a representative office in Viet Nam. Colostrsum, also called foremilk, is a thin, yellowish fluid secreted by the mammary glands at the time of parturition that is ...
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Quang Nam mineral water plant targets 100cu.m per day
Quang Nam mineral water plant targets 100cu.m per day DA NANG (VNS)-- The central Quang Nam Province inaugurated the Mineral Water Plant in Phu Ninh District on Saturday. The VND43-billion (US$2.05-million) plant is located on 5,700sq.m of land. It will exploit 100cu.m of mineral water each day from a mine in Phu Ninh Lake. At the ceremony, Hung Cuong Tourism investment joint stock company, ...
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Largest poly-metallic mine to be operational soon
Largest poly-metallic mine to be operational soon THAI NGUYEN (VNS)-- The country's largest poly-metallic mine in the northern province of Thai Nguyen is set to roll out its first products, deputy director-general of Nui Phao Mining Company Limited Vu Hong said. Hong said construction on Nui Phao poly-metallic mine in Thai Nguyen's Dai Tu District had been completed, three years ...
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FPT targets Myanmar broadband
FPT targets Myanmar broadband HCM CITY (VNS)-- Viet Nam's software giant FPT Corporation will open an office in Myanmar soon as it prepares to develop ICT infrastructure for providing internet broadband services in the country. Truong Gia Binh, co-founder, chairman and CEO of the Vietnamese corporation, revealed this in talks with Myanmarese reporters after the closing ceremony of the ...
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Projects presented to Japan investors
Projects presented to Japan investors HCM CITY (VNS)-- A delegation from the central province of Binh Dinh introduced 21 projects needing investment during a visit to Japan last week. Japanese investors targeted for these projects include Pacific Development, Elliott, Mitsui Sumitomo Finance & Leasing Bank, Sumitomo Corp, Tokyu Land, Mitsubitshi Estate Co, Recof Corporation, and Itochu ...
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Inspectors slam manufacturers of poor quality black boxes
Inspectors slam manufacturers of poor quality black boxes HCM CITY (VNS)-- Transport officials inspecting 19 manufacturers of black boxes - devices installed in vehicles to supervise their operation - have discovered nine of them to be falling short of national standards. The Ministry of Transport's inspection campaign, which runs until June 29, is concentrating its investigations in ...
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US programme marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby
This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid ...
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Low-income buyers shun social housing apartments
Low-income buyers shun social housing apartments HCM CITY (VNS)-- Commercially built apartments have become more popular with low-income buyers than social housing, as prices of the former have dropped substantially in recent years, according to real estate experts. Many commercial, or non-government-funded, housing projects in Ha Noi and HCM City have lowered prices to VND10-14 million ...
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Small firms need more support
A pumping machine is assembled at the Hai Duong Pump Manufacturing Co. The Government is considering improving its support and incentives for small- and medium-sized enterprises. -- VNA/VNS Photo Hoang ...
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Retail giants target Viet Nam
Retail giants target Viet Nam HA NOI (VNS)-- Foreign retail giants have shown their hunger to develop modern retailing in Viet Nam by pouring money into trade centres and supermarkets. According to the Institute of Information and Business Research (IIB), the retail industry in the country, which has a population of 88 million, holds huge potential despite local consumers tightened their ...
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City to focus on safe vegetables
A farmer waters his safe vegetables in Tam Phu Ward, HCM City. The municipal agriculture department plans to expand the application of VietGap standards to 1,730ha, or 50 per cent of the city's vegetable gardens, by 2015. -- VNA/VNS Photo Pham ...
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Petrol price hike spooks markets
HA NOI (VNS)-- The unexpected rise in petrol prices late on Friday hit the stock market yesterday with indices falling on both major exchanges. Steeper declines for large-cap shares in the afternoon pushed the VN-Index down by a further 11 points, or 2.06 per cent, to close yesterday's session at 498.52 points. On the HCM City Stock Exchange, up to 25 of the top 30 shares by market ...
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Russians talk up trade in Far East
Russians talk up trade in Far East HA NOI (VNS)-- President Truong Tan Sang greeted visiting Russian Minister for Far East Development V. I. Ishaev in Ha Noi yesterday, expressing the country's support for Vietnamese companies investing in the Far East. Welcoming preparations for the second round of negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement, Sang proposed the Russian side devise ...
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US offers to help fight emerging epidemics
US offers to help fight emerging epidemics HA NOI (VNS)-- US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has said her country is committed to working with Viet Nam to combat emerging epidemics, especially infectious diseases, and to promote the transfer of technology to fight HIV/AIDS. Received by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Ha Noi yesterday, Sebelius stressed that the US ...
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ILO to help improve social insurance laws
ILO to help improve social insurance laws HA NOI (VNS)-- A project to improve the nation's social insurance system was launched by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) yesterday. The project on Strengthening the performance of the social insurance system in Viet Nam through improved legislation and legal framework ...
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Lam Dong expands job training
Lam Dong expands job training LAM DONG (VNS)-- The Central Highland province of Lam Dong plans to increase its financial support to local ethnic minority labourers so they can continue to attend vocational training schools. Lam Dong has more than 40 ethnic minority groups, accounting for 24 per cent of the province's population. For the past three years, the province has implemented a ...
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Early intervention improves fertility odds
Children play in Phu My Hung New Urban Area in HCM City. Infertile couples are given stronger hope of having children with the development of modern intervention science and technology. -- VNA/VNS Photo The ...
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Da Nang to host ASEAN meeting on crime
Da Nang to host ASEAN meeting on crime DA NANG (VNS) -- Viet Nam will host the 13th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime, to be held in central Da Nang City from tomorrow until Saturday. The annual rotary meeting among ASEAN countries aims to strengthen co-operation and share experiences in prevention and fighting of crime, with the participation of ASEAN members and ...
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Land law under spotlight
Farmers transplant rice seedlings in Nghe An Province. Nearly 7 million individuals and organisations had their say on amendments to acquisition provisions under the Land Law.-- VNA/VNS Photo Le Ba ...
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Credit growth prospects looking brighter
A discussion of bank loans at Agribank in Phu Yen. As of May, the banking sector's credit growth was 2.98 per cent, much higher than the 0.76 per cent increase recorded during the same period last year. -- VNA/VNS Photo The ...
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Preservation of Duong Lam Village urged
HA NOI (VNS)-- A draft on the way to preserve and restore the ancient architecture in Ha Noi's Duong Lam Village was reached at a recent meeting of cultural managers and experts. The participants decided on Thursday at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism that the hamlets of Mong Phu, Dong Sang, Cam Lam, Doai Giap and Cam Thinh should be preserved. Temples and pagodas in Mong Phu ...
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Coal and Minerals impress at national womens football
Coal and Minerals impress at national women's football Defending champions Viet Nam Coal and Minerals defeated Ha Noi II 2-0 during a second leg match at the National Women's Football Championships (also known as the Thai Son Bac Cup), in the northern province of Ha Nam on Sunday. Ha Noi I currently lead the group with 19 points, followed by Phong Phu Ha Nam (17 points) and HCM ...
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Mysterious Steve Jobs emails hang over Apple trial
NEW YORK (AFP) - The late Steve Jobs took center stage Monday in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks.A federal court attempted to plumb the meaning of a series of unsent emails Jobs addressed to Eddy Cue, an Apple senior vice president assigned with negotiating ebook contracts with major publishers in late 2009 and early 2010 before the launch of the iPad.Even though the ...
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Tens of thousands protest Confed Cup costs in Brazil
People take part in a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 17, 2013. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of major Brazilian cities Monday protesting the billions of dollars spent on the Confederations Cup and higher public transport costs, police ...
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