South central Phan Thiet City will host an international windsurfing tournament later this month, said Do Van Ba, deputy director of the Binh Thuan Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Hong Kong-based hotel management company Swiss-Belhotel International, will take over the Sacom Resort in Central Highland’s Dalat City. The hotel operator signed a contract with property owner, the Cables and Telecommunication Material Joint Stock Company (SACOM) on October 2.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has shocked critics by saying under fire Phan Thiet University meets all the requirements to open. It follows newspaper allegations of faked and duplicated lecturers, poor facilities and of the University being set in a tourist village rather than a traditional centre for education.
Yet another abuse has been uncovered at Phan Thiet University, which has become famous when local newspapers dubbed it a “three no university” - no facilities, no curriculum and no lecturers. The university has enrolled triple the number of students allowed.
The recent exposure of a university without proper infrastructure and qualified teachers has prompted fresh calls for the education ministry to tighten control over the establishment of new higher education institutions.
In a press conference to confirm under fire Phan Thiet University can be allowed to provide training, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) says it’s unfeasible to license universities only when they meet all requirements.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has shocked critics by saying under fire Phan Thiet University meets all the requirements to open. It follows newspaper allegations of faked and duplicated lecturers, poor facilities and of the University being set in a tourist village rather than a traditional centre for education.
It provided a false list of lecturers with counterfeit signatures and has no facilities, yet still Phan Thiet University has still been granted a licence, according to Tuoi tre newspaper.
Farmers complain that consumers seek imported fruits and that they also cannot “access” supermarkets because of strict barriers. Instead, China boasts high fruit sales and profits, leaving Vietnamese fruits in the dust.
The National Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control has asked central coastal provinces to brace themselves for a tropical low pressure system which is expected to strengthen into a storm in the East Sea on September 26.
Inspectors in southern Binh Thuan Province found a 35-year-old hawksbill turtle (Ertemochelys imbricata ) being slaughtered for sale in Cau Ke Market last Friday.
The Vietnamese Defence Ministry on August 29 announced it would set up an additional naval unit to protect Vietnam’s southern continental shelf from Binh Thuan to Bac Lieu provinces. The unit will be based in Nhon Trach, Dong Nai province.
Experts from the Environment Protection Department yesterday said that the proliferation of red seaweed off the Binh Thuan coast, that has been blamed for killing fish, had come to an end and that the sea was clearing.
Tourism officials are considering lowering the travel sector’s 2009 target of 4.2 million foreign visitors to 3.7-3.8 million as the global economic slowdown continues to take its toll on Vietnam.
It’s past three in the afternoon and the tide is going out at Phu Hai Ward in Phan Thiet on the central coast. Several children are gathering at a rocky beach. Each one holds a bucket in one hand and an iron hook with a sharp end in the other hand to collect barnacles from the rocks.
Two men carrying Myanmar identity papers were rescued at sea by a Vietnamese fishing vessel, a border military officer of the southern central province of Binh Thuan said on Aug. 10.
The qualifying round of the 2009 Faldo Series Asia is taking place at the Ocean Dunes golf course in Phan Thiet City of central Binh Thuan province, on August 8-9. The championships, founded by golfer Nick Faldo, who won six champion titles at senior UK golf tournaments, has been designed for Asian amateur golfers aged between 12 and 21.
Big investment capital, a long period for investment capital recovery, fastidiousness about clients, incomplete infrastructure and H1N1 flu pandemic are all factors experts have cited to suggest the tourism real estate market in Vietnam has a lot of potential but is unattractive at this moment.
Thirty teachers and volunteers from social organisations nationwide took part in camp festival held in Hon Rom- Phan Thiet tourist resort in the southern part of Binh Thuan on July 28-29 to help both street and disadvantaged children.
The prosecution office of Ham Thuan Nam District in the southern province of Binh Thuan Sunday said they have charged two former district officials with wrongly granting agriculture land to other officials since 1996.
A research institute’s report on the impacts of the global economic crisis on Vietnamese farmers says that over 60 percent are strongly affected. The institute’s director argues that farmers need protection against land conversions and help in innovating.
