Pham Sanh Chau, chief of the Foreign Cultural Exchange Department of the Foreign Ministry and the “idea manager” of the Vietnam Fashion Institute Dang Minh Hanh will represent Vietnam in the jury of the Mrs. World 2009 pageant.

VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Sanh Chau, chief of the Foreign Cultural Exchange Department of the Foreign Ministry and the “idea manager” of the Vietnam Fashion Institute Dang Minh Hanh will represent Vietnam in the jury of the Mrs. World 2009 pageant.

VietNamNet Bridge – Time has run out for organizers of Miss World Vietnamese – a beauty pageant for Vietnamese women living, working or studying overseas.

Information on 24,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing large numbers of international clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.

Representatives from twenty businesses from Kansai, Japan paid a three-day visit to Ho Chi Minh City in an effort to seek business opportunities in the country’s largest city.

Hanoi, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City will hold various events to celebrate the 2010 International Francophone Day which is scheduled to run from mid March to early April this year.

A book entitled “Traces of Indian culture in Vietnam” by Indian writer G.Sharma has been made available to the Indian public.

The Ascending Dragon Music Festival will kick off this week in Hanoi with musicians from the Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music orchestra and members of the Vietnam National Academy of Music (VNAM).

Accor, the largest international hotel operator in Viet Nam, announced yesterday, March 10, its strategic expansion plans including additional hotels within the Novotel, Mercure hotel brand, launching of the ibis brand and MGallery label.

An Ninh Thu Do (Capital Security) newspaper talked with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hoang Tuan Anh, about tourism prospects for this year.

I told a man in nearby Sin Ho Township that not long ago a British travel company (Gecko Travel) rated this place as one of the top five trekking destinations in Southeast Asia. He looked doubtful.

The experimental tour by electric cars around Hoan Kiem Lake and the Old Quarter was not launched in the first quarter of 2010 as scheduled because the imported electric cars are not yet licensed to run.

When Hollywood blockbusters Avatar and Transformers were released in Viet Nam at the same time as their world premieres last year, it marked a major breakthrough for the local cinema industry.

The launch party for Cosmopolitan Magazine of Vietnam was held at the Intercontinental Hotel on March 9. Attending the event, there were magician Ngo My Uyen, Former Miss Vietnam Ha Kieu Anh, actress Do Hai Yen, model Duong Yen Ngoc and others. Cosmopolitan will release its first edition on March 15, 2010.

Buiret, a 3-member rock band from South Korea, will rock HCM City on the evening of March 19.

The Ascending Dragon Music Festival will kick off this week in Hanoi with musicians from the Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music orchestra and members of the Vietnam National Academy of Music (VNAM).

“The decision to import 170,000 tonnes of salt when the year has just started and the salt season has not yet come has to be reconsidered," Mr. Pham Nang Phong, Vice General Manager of Vietnam National Salt Corporation told DTiNews.

Carlos Slim Helú of Mexico beat Bill Gates and Warren E. Buffett for the top spot on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires, becoming the first person from outside the United States to lead the rankings in 16 years.

Raw ingredients, such as cucumber, carrots, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, and fresh mint leaves, make this refreshing dish ideal for summer.