Vietnam – Latin America: Potential energy partners

Vietnam – Latin America: Potential energy partners

(VOVworld) - Vietnam now considers energy a spearhead economic sector in realizing its Millennium Development Goals, industrialization, and modernization, and Latin America is seen as a potential region for energy development. A...
Da Nang tourism seeks to promote brand name

Da Nang tourism seeks to promote brand name

(VOVworld) - Da Nang city’s tourism sector has been promoting its brand name by upgrading infrastructure and services. On today’s edition of Discovery Vietnam, we will look at...
June 27th 2012

June 27th 2012

A: This week we received an email and a letter from 59-year-old Hans Kronkvist from Malmoe, Sweden, who said he listened to our June 2nd broadcast on the frequency of 9730 kHz from...
Exchange program for families to eschew social evils

Exchange program for families to eschew social evils

(VOVworld) - Outstanding individuals and organizations carrying out the Resolution on management and education of the children in their families to eschew crime and social evil were celebrated on Tuesday in...
VietJetAir signs agreement with CyberSource

VietJetAir signs agreement with CyberSource

VietJetAir has announced an agreement signed with CyberSource for payment services and the fraud-management solution. Decision Manager aims to support its online ticketing services as the carrier looks to...
National Assembly passes five laws

National Assembly passes five laws

l(VOVworld) – The National Assembly today approved 5 laws: Laws on Deposit Insurance, Law on Anti-money Laundering, Law on Tertiary Education, Law on Prevention of Tobacco's Harmful Effects and Law...
Lên Đồng or “Going into a trance” Ritual

Lên Đồng or “Going into a trance” Ritual

(VOVworld) – Worshipping the Mother Goddess – Mother of the Universe - has been a time-honoured spiritual practice in Vietnam since prehistoric times. The ancient Vietnam people initiated the practice of communicating with the...
May 30, 2012

May 30, 2012

Our regular listener Gerry Neuman of Hampshire, England, emailed us Sunday with detailed reports of our May 19th, 20th, 22nd, 24th, and 27th broadcasts. He said: “Dear friends, this will be my last report...
Buddhist monk stays on Truong Sa Islands

Buddhist monk stays on Truong Sa Islands

(VOVworld) – Venerable Thich Giac Nghia is one of the first six Buddhist monks in Khanh Hoa who volunteered to relocate to the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands to manage temples there. He...
Revision of Land Law – an urgent task

Revision of Land Law – an urgent task

(VOVworld) - The 5th plenary session of the Party Central Committee which concluded on May 15th have made with major decisions relating to land policy and law. The Land Law will be...
Comprehensive measures to combat corruption

Comprehensive measures to combat corruption

(VOVworld) - The fifth conference of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Committee has concluded with important decisions made. Anti-corruption measures were a primary focus of the conference. Huong...
A Japanese friend of Vietnam

A Japanese friend of Vietnam

(VOVworld) - “I want to write about Nguyen Thi Binh, a typical woman of Vietnam, about Vietnam’s land and especially Vietnam’s war and things behind it”. That was what Japanese...