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Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 November, 2008, 18:45 (GMT+7)

Chief gov’t inspector discusses new anti-corruption strategy

VietNamNet Bridge – “The government will consider law amendment and banking reforms to make public government officials’ incomes,” said chief government inspector TranVan Truyen in regards to the Corruption Prevention Strategy, announced by the government on Tuesday.

POLITICS
On the path to ending poverty

VietNamNet BridgePrime Minister  Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to co-operate with sectors and localities in revising its policies in support of poor households.

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Chief gov’t inspector discusses new anti-corruption strategy
Vietnam calls on Czech to rethink visa postponement
POLITICS IN BRIEF 19/11
President heads to Venezuela
BUSINESS
No one tells farmers what rice to grow: experts

VietNamNet Bridge – While Vietnamese farmers cannot sell their rice, high-quality rice has been flocking in from Cambodia, and low-quality rice is being sent by farmers from the Cuu Long River Delta to HCM City.

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Real estate market: who needs to be rescued?
Interest rates down, banks in a dilemma
It’s time to install technical barrier on glass imports
Vietcombank plans zero growth on this year’s mobilization
INTERNATIONAL
Bahrain prince sues Michael Jackson in UK court

A son of the king of Bahrain took U.S. pop star Michael Jackson to court on Monday for reneging on an agreement to record a new album and write an autobiography.

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U.S. treasury secretary reluctant to aid automakers
Hijacked supertanker moors off Somalia as eight pirates escape prison
"Pregnant man": My wife and I are normal couple
Family history key in breast cancer risk
SOCIAL
No flowers in Hanoi’s flower village

VietNamNet Bridge – The period from November 20 (National Teachers’ Day) till the lunar New Year is normally the busiest time for Tay Tuu flower village, one of the two major sources of supply of flowers for Hanoi. But at this moment, Tay Tuu has no flowers.

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Wide-ranging counterfeit document ring smashed
Official suspended in connection to PCI scandal
Nearly 20 beauties to raise funds for disadvantaged kids
58 provinces, cities fail to reach target birthrate
EDUCATION
A lecture by the Minister of Education and Training

VietNamNet Bridge – A special lesson took place on November 14 in the morning at Dong Da Secondary School in Hanoi. It was special because the lecturer was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan.

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The call of the classroom
Not enough young lecturers to go abroad
Teen murder puts focus on youth crime
Viettel sets up edu-network for HCM City
SCI-TECH
70% local firms fail to deal with information security incidents

VietNamNet Bridge – According to the Vietnam Information Safety Association (VNISA), most of Vietnamese companies are ignoring information security and most of them don’t have procedures to solve information security-related incidents.

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Vietnam takes a silver award at APICTA 08
More arrested related to black web
National e-government workshop scheduled in Dec.
Investors move to foster agricultural growth
LIFESTYLE
Good morning Korea, Good morning Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – As the follow-up to the Vietnam – RoK exhibition held in Seoul, the Republic of Korea in 2007, an exhibition entitled “Good morning Korea, Good morning Vietnam” will be held in Hanoi from November 20-26.

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Thien Ly’s first pictures at Miss World pageant
Miss World: Vietnamese contestants in top five bet to win
Duong Quoc Dinh’s photographic arts
Idecaf plans drama for children on X-mas
TRAVEL
Largest pagoda of Vietnam on the way

VietNamNet BridgeThe largest pagoda complex in Vietnam, Bai Dinh Pagoda, is located at Gia Sinh Commune, Gia Vien District in the northern province of Ninh Binh, 95 kilometers south of Hanoi.

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Southern resident scours the country for old motorbikes
Vietnam Airlines to sell tickets online
Coastal provinces protect tourists from tropical storm
PM approves hiring foreign consultant for airport project
SPORTS
VFF willing to spend over $2.4 million to get MU

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) said it is willing to pay VND42 billion (over $2.47 million) to bring Manchester United club to Vietnam next year.

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VFF to invite MU, AC Milan to Vietnam next year
Nhan dominates first tour stage
SPORTS IN BRIEF 19/11
SLNA puts pressure on former football star
‘$1bil club’ now has one member only

VietNamNet Bridge – The ‘$1bil club’ became a one-member club late last week after the other remaining members withdrew due to the continued fall of the market.

30% credit growth rate – tough task

Inflation rate in 2009 will be one digit?


LIFE IN VIETNAM

What’s On November 17 - 23

VietNamNet Bridge - Weekly exhibition, performance, cinema and dining out information at your fingertips. Plus a list of local festival of the month: time, locations and attraction.

What’s On November 10 - 16
Happy couples brave floods to say I do
THE GOOD LIFE

Where the streets have no names

TGL – After four odd years prowling Hanoi’s streets in living The Good Life, I’ve discovered I have a startlingly small mental map of the city.

Technophobe: Tape to PC conundrums
The new black

PHOTOGALLERY
Panorama of Miss Vietnam in Europe pageant
Hanoi farmers trying to get up from flood
Hanoi: On 5th day, some places still 1m under water