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MobiFone plans to list shares on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange this year (Photo courtesy of Thanh Nien News)

Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Co. said sales soared in 2009 and it plans to list shares this year on the Ho Chi Minh stock exchange.
Revenue for the year to Dec. 31 rose 52 percent to VND27.4 trillion [...]

MobiFone plans to list shares on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange this year (Photo courtesy of Thanh Nien News)

Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Co. said sales soared in 2009 and it plans to list shares this year on the Ho Chi Minh stock exchange.
Revenue for the year to Dec. 31 rose 52 percent to VND27.4 trillion [...]

Cambodian NA chairman wraps up Vietnam visit

Cambodian National Assembly (NA) Chairman Heng Samrin and his wife departed Hanoi on January 20, concluding their official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of NA Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong. During their six-day stay in Vietnam, the Heng Samrin held talks with Vietnam’s NA Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong and [...]

Architect Mai The Nguyen’s wish to publish a handbook to introduce Hanoi architecture to foreign visitors has become true. He has brought handbooks, which were printed in Norway, to Vietnam. 

Architect Mai The Nguyen and his book.

 
 
The handbook’s cover is edged in light green. His sweater also had light green. Even his name-card has a light-green [...]

President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Huynh Dam visited families of war martyrs’ and social policy beneficiaries in Ho Chi Minh City on Jan 18.
He also visited families of revolutionary veterans, including those of late Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, late Chairman of the State Council Vo Chi Cong, and [...]

Exhibitions

Hanoi

Exhibition House

16 Ngo Quyen St.

- Oil-on-canvas and poonah painting exhibition by Dabg Tin Tuong, till Jan 29.

Bookworm

4B Yen The St., Tel: 37478778

- Love and Marriage acrylic on diep paper by Le Chi Hieu, till Jan 25.

Maison Des Arts

31A Van Mieu St, Tel: 37478096

- Photo, painting, video & sculpture exhibition entitled Long Bien Bridge’s Memory, till [...]

The Saigontourist Travel Company welcomed 450 foreign tourists and crew who joined the five-star cruise liner ‘Columbus’ on January 12. The ship’s passengers were predominantly German.
The Columbus is the second cruise liner to be received by Saigontourist during the first half of January 2009. More than 200 tourists disembarked from the vessel to explore [...]

Vietnamese music professor Vinh Bao was presented with France’s Order of Arts and Literature by Hervé Bolot, the French ambassador in Vietnam, on January 12.

Vietnamese music professor Vinh Bao. (Photo: VNS)

Vinh Bao, 92, was one of the founders of the Saigon National School of Music, which is now Ho Chi Minh City’s Conservatory of Music, [...]

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong has requested government staff involved in religious affairs to focus their attention on improving the living conditions for religious followers across the nation.
Addressing a conference on religious affairs in Hanoi on Jan. 13, the Deputy PM underlined the importance of the issue in the context of the rapid increase [...]

Viettel boasts over 150,000 mobile phone subscribers abroadThe military-run telecom service provider, Viettel, on Jan. 13 said it has so far attracted over 150,000 mobile phone subscribers in Cambodia and Laos .

The company registered more than 100,000 mobile phone subscribers in Cambodia and 50,000 others in Laos , after only two months entering these two [...]