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Tiger bone glue has been advertised on many websites at VND3 million per 0.1 kilo.
Thousands of elephants massacred to decorate the rich’s houses
Collecting elephant tusks is now in fashion among the
rich men who believe that the tusks can show the upper class of their owners.
Vietnam will be the country with no forest?
The deforestation has not been stopped as promised by
local authorities and forest ranger units. Vietnam’s forest coverage has dropped
to less than 40 percent.
Government thinks too much when rescuing businesses
The national economy remains very pale, while businesses
have died like flies. Meanwhile, the government is still busy with particular
calculation when mapping out the solutions to rescue businesses.
Clip exposing Vietnamese education’s problems stirs up the public
Vietnam does not need a generation of people who have to
receive training in everything, but they don’t know what they will do, what they
want to obtain and what their purposes are in life.
Existing TVs won’t be wasted when Vietnam digitalizes TV
Scientists believe that the currently used TV sets would
still be useful for receiving image signals once Vietnam enters the digital TV
era.
Vietnam considers building nuclear science & technology center
Scientists have urged to build up
a nuclear science & technology center, saying that this is an important link of
the national program on developing nuclear power, a crucial testing for the
capability of implementing the program
Foreign partner withdraws from biofuel project
The Japanese partner in the Ethanol Binh Phuoc project
has decided to withdraw from the project on the worry about the slow sale of the
biofuel.
Both analog and digital TV to be broadcasted by 2014 in 5 big cities
Vietnam plans to stop analog TV in the 5 biggest cities by
2015. Therefore, digital TV would be broadcasted in the cities together with
analog TV from 2014.
Central coastal areas turn topsy-turvy with mineral exploitation (part 1)
The whole land strip in the central region, which is
believed to possess big tourism potentials with beautiful beaches, has been
damaged by the mineral exploitation activities.
Heavy drought put forests in danger
Mekong Delta’s provinces have been urged to get highly
ready to fight against the forest fire in the dry season.
Vietnam cannot attract tourists because of low budget for tourism promotion?
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has
attributed the stagnation of the tourism industry to the lack of money to run
tourism promotion campaigns.
Domestic anti-virus software doesn’t have many opportunities on home market
Analysts believe that new domestic anti-virus products
will not be able to compete with the existing products on the market, even if
domestic firms can get the support from the State.
Selling cars in lots – the good solution in economic recession
The first rays of hope have been flashed on the
automobile market, but the demand remains weak in the economic downturn.
Therefore, selling cars in lots remains the top choice for automobile
manufacturers.
Higher foreign ownership ratio will help IPO shares to be salable
Analysts have warned about the possible oversupply of
shares when a series of equitized enterprises would make IPO.
Non-fiction book plagiarism gets more problematic in Vietnam
While literary authors now feel more secure because their
copyright has been protected by the laws, the authors of on-fiction books cannot
be so optimistic.
The technology of infusing rice flour into pangolin
According to the wildlife conservation society, Vietnam
is the gateway through which pangolins are smuggled and carried to China.
Foreign tourists go to Vietnam to… eat, why not?
Vietnamese food, which is considered one of the
healthiest cuisines worldwide, would be developed to attract more tourists to
Vietnam.
MOET vows to renovate curricula, but forgets renovating teachers
Experts say they can foresee the failure of the program
on renovating textbooks and education curricula, because the program does not
tend to renovate the teaching staff.
Vietnam considers setting up standards for IT skills
Being concerned about the qualification of new IT school
graduates, Vietnam now considers setting up new standards for IT skills in an
effort to internationalize the quality of Vietnamese IT engineers.
