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My first month in Vietnam - Hanoi, Vietnam

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Hanoi, Vietnam I can't believe I've been in Hanoi for exactly a month now. Time is flying by... Perfume Pagoda On my first proper weekend off, I decided to take a day tour to Perfume Pagoda and escape the city. As we're driving out, I see all the typical Vietnamese scenes....people out in the paddy fields with their conical hats and their rickety old bicycles. It...

www.keytovietnam.com - Hanoi, Vietnam

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Thanks for KTV tourist company. it's www.keytovietnam.com

Hanoi City Tour - Hanoi, Vietnam

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Hanoi, Vietnam Our second day began with breakfast in the hotel.  There is no real kitchen here, but a young guy cooks somes eggs on a burner and serves them with some toast, fruit, and powdered coffee.  Oh, how John yearns for the big country breakfasts of his childhood!

Hanoi Workers Turn To Bikes And Buses

Chao-Vietnam (Free subscription) | yesterday

As fuel prices continue to increase, more Hanoians are leaving their motorbikes at home and riding buses or bicycles to work. Nguyen Minh Anh said her place of employment was not far from her home and even before the surge in gas prices she often rode her bicycle to work a few days a week. “Now I ride to work everyday to save money and be healthier,” Anh said. Many company managers strongly encourage...

Hanoi...a short stay - Hanoi, Vietnam

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Brining some Italian/Philippino/American spice to Asia

Cavico Deploys 150 Additional Engineers and Skilled Workers to Algeria

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

HANOI, Vietnam--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cavico Corporation (OTC BB: CVIC) (“Cavico” or “the Company

Greetings from Vang Vieng

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Hello all. There's quite a lot thats happened since my last post so I'll try to keep this light so as to not go on forever. I left Hoi An at about two in the afternoon a few days ago on a coach to get up to Hanoi. It's a seventeen hour ride to get to there which means out of the last three days two full days would be spent on buses. Make no mistake about it Vietnam is really really long. After

Vietnam Right to Raise Fuel Prices

Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Kelvin Lee, chief executive officer of VinaSecurities in Ho Chi Minh City, comments on Vietnam's attempts to slow inflation. Consumer prices gained 1.1% in July from a month earlier, compared with a 2.1% increase in June, the General Statistics Office in Hanoi said today. Annual inflation quickened to 27%, from 26.8% last month, the fastest pace since at least 1992. Vietnam this week allowed

CPI scheduled to rise 1 percent in July

Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Common prices of commodities in Hanoi in July increased by 1.65% against June, said the General Statistics Office. With this, Hanoi’s CPI increased 18.82% against the end of 2007 and 28.84% on year. Of this figure, entertainment and tourism group increased 2.36%; housing and building materials, 2.01%; medicine and health service, 1.99% and restaurant and eating and drinking service, 1.96%. In

Vietnam Inflation Hits 27% As Fuel Prices Are Raised

Forbes (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Although a bumper rice harvest checked the rise in food prices, Hanoi hiked gasoline, diesel and fuel oil prices by more than 30%; the increase in CPI is cutting into purchasing power.

Inflation slows in Vietnam

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

Hanoi - Vietnam said Thursday that inflation in July has slowed to 1.1 per cent month-on-month, compared with 2.2 per cent in June and 3.9 per cent in May, according to a report released by the government's General Statistics Office. The report was h...

Cavico Receives $187,500 as Cost Adjustment

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

HANOI, Vietnam - Cavico Corporation (OTC BB: CVIC) (“Cavico” or “the Company”), a leading infrastructure development company in Vietnam, today announced that Cavico

• Cavico Receives $187,500 as Cost Adjustment - Business Wire

Inflation Slows as Food, Energy Prices Drop

Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Vietnam's consumer prices rose in July at the slowest pace since October as global food and energy prices declined. The consumer prices index gained 1.1% after a 2.1% increase in June, the General Statistics Office reported today in Hanoi. Annual inflation quickened to 27% from 26.8% last month, the fastest pace since at least 1992. Global food prices have been declining on increased supplies,

North Korean foreign minister to visit Vietnam

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Hanoi - North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun is to visit Vietnam Saturday on his way home from a south-east Asian security forum in Singapore, Vietnam's government announced Thursday. Vietnamese government spokesman Le Dung said Pak was to meet ...

National technological fair to open in September

Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Techmart Hanoi 2008, which introduces and trades new technology and equipment, will be held in the capital city from September 18-21 this year, with a focus on technologies in the fields of biology, information, electronics and telecommunications and automation. In the spotlight are also technologies and services in fields such as planning, architecture, construction, traffic, environments and

Ha Long Bay: the heavenly castles on earth with Indochina Sails

activetravelvietnam | 02/04/2008

Halong Bay is the jewel in the crown of Vietnam cruise travel destinations. Located 165km (102 miles) East of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, the 150,000 ha (370,658 acre) Halong Bay lies on Vietnam's Northeastern coast in the Gulf of Tonkin. Not only are Halong Bay's approximately 1,600 limestone islands and statuesque pillar islets and outcrops breathtakingly beautiful, the bay is deeply entrenched in