More Swing for the Kids scholarships go out to excellent students in Hung Yen province By By Anh Duc 11:02 | 17/08/2017 In the lead-up to the 2017-2018 school year, Vietnam Investment Review, the press agency of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, has ... Swing for the Kids 2017 hands out 160 scholarships By By Duc Hanh 08:00 | 19/05/2017 Vietnam Investment Review honours 160 disadvantaged students who produced stellar results in the previous academic year with scholarships worth VND80 ... Swing for the Kids 2017 a fun and meaningful competition By By Hong Anh 18:39 | 22/04/2017 The 11th Swing for the Kids charity golf tournament, co-organised by the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency, Vietnam Investment ... VIR's Swing for the Kids 2017 teed off By By … [Read more...] about Society, The latest news about Society
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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 15
Check out the news you should not miss today, July 15 Politics -- Ho Chi Minh City chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong received Choi Jae-sung, chairman of the Korea-Asia Friendship Foundation, on Friday, affirming that the Vietnamese metropolis is willing to strengthen ties with South Korea in education and training Society -- Vietnamese national Nguyen Thanh Dung, who was charged for torturing a Cambodian toddler in 2016, was sentenced in absentia to 18 years in prison by a court in Cambodia on Friday. -- A total of 35 solutions on controlling public and individual vehicles to resolve the chronic traffic congestion in Ho Chi Minh City were brought to discussion during a conference on Friday. -- A new speedboat service, running between the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang and Con Dao Island, off the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, was inaugurated on Friday. -- A tropical depression … [Read more...] about Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 15
Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – January 18
Read what is in the news today, January 18: Politics -- U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink said on Wednesday he and U.S. President Donald Trump had absolute faith in Vietnam to be a trusted partner of the U.S. in the modern era during a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on “Vietnam – U.S. Relations under President Donald Trump’s Administration." -- Two Vietnamese deputy ministers of foreign affairs – Ha Kim Ngoc and Dang Dinh Quy – will take office as Ambassador to the U.S. and Ambassador to the United Nations, respectively, as the lawmaking National Assembly approved the government appointments on Wednesday. -- Parliamentary delegations from 21 countries in the Asia-Pacific region will be in Vietnam from January 18 to 21 to attend the 26th Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF), during which matters that affect the region will be discussed. Society -- Crew members of fourteen sand-mining vessels were arrested in Ho Chi Minh … [Read more...] about Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – January 18
Happy birthday to us! Thank you for reading Tuoi Tre News!
Dear valued readers, Dear valued readers, Tuoi Tre News is celebrating its fifth birthday today, June 18. We have been around for five years with a mission of being a news gateway to Vietnam for everyone who wants to know what is happening in the country through accurate, updated news stories published in English. To celebrate this milestone, we have asked readers to tell us what they expect from our website, and what they think needs to be improved. And our call received an enthusiastic reply. We owe you, readers, great appreciation for this. But allow us to first show off our birthday wishes, which kept arriving and overwhelming us over the week. Another heartfelt thank you to all our valued readers. "Congrats. Long may you continue," Mark McKellar-Harding told us on Facebook, while Graeme Marr hailed our good work and Choat Gemini said she loves Tuoi Tre News and what we are doing. "It's great to find an English publication for news and happenings in Vietnam," Vickie Le said … [Read more...] about Happy birthday to us! Thank you for reading Tuoi Tre News!
Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – March 14
Tuoi Tre News briefs you on some of the leading stories published today, March 14, in Vietnamese media. Politics -- Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his spouse will pay official visits to Australia from March 17 to 18 and New Zealand from March 19 to 20, at the invitations of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. These visits aim to strengthen the strategic partnership relations between Vietnam and the two nations. Society -- According to a proposal raised on Friday by a research group under the Vietnam’s Party Central Committee's Commission for Internal Affairs, civil servants holding positions at ministerial bureau and department levels or higher should be banned from depositing money or property abroad or owning overseas property, as a new measure to prevent corrupt acts and improve recovery of losses in corruption cases. -- Police in Vietnam’s southern hub Ho Chi Minh City on Friday said they have … [Read more...] about Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – March 14