Vinaseed Group has launched a new brand name and identity Established in 1968, the seeds Vinaseed had sown have grown into "stately trees," contributing to the continuous improvement of Vietnamese farmers’ living standards, technical skills, and actual incomes. Having set the goal to provide high-quality seeds with high productivity and wide adaptation, Vinaseed has been focusing on researching, applying, and transferring technology as well as industrialising the seed industry. Since equitisation (Stock code: NSC), Vinaseed has considered science and technology as an important tool for enterprise development and competitive advantage enhancement, while investing more than VND300 billion ($13 million) into R&D, opening up brighter and more energetic prospects. Vinaseed became the rising star in the Vietnamese seed sector as the first company in the country to be recognised as a scientific and technological company. Tran Kim Lien, Vinaseed chairman and general … [Read more...] about The PAN Group’s Vinaseed – 50 years alongside Vietnamese agriculture
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Remembering Đinh Tôn: 50 years later
Đinh Tôn. Viet Nam News By Thomas Eugene Wilber It began in Thọ Xuân District, Thanh Hóa Province, Việt Nam At about 4pm local time on Sunday, the sixteenth day of June 1968, air force Captain Đinh Tôn and his wingman, Captain Nguyễn Tiến Sâm, taxied their MiG-21single seat fighter jets to the northwest end of Thọ Xuân airbase and lined up to take off. Completing final checks and accelerating to a normal launch transition, they climbed to about 300 metres altitude, banking to the right and heading south at a speed of 800 kilometres per hour. Pilots Tôn and Sâm were assigned to the 921st Fighter Regiment flying from Thọ Xuân. Today was Sâm’s first combat flight, and his job was to protect flight leader Tôn. For Tôn, every combat flight was important, as expectations for him were high. About Đinh Tôn Đinh Tôn had returned to Việt Nam only … [Read more...] about Remembering Đinh Tôn: 50 years later
Live show celebrates composer’s 50-year career
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI - Veteran composer Phó Đức Phương, whose songs have became hits of many famous Vietnamese singers, will hold his biggest live show to celebrate his 50-year career tonight. Together with some other composers of his generation, such as Dương Thụ, Nguyễn Cường, Thanh Tùng, Trần Tiến, Phương has contributed significantly to the music scene of Việt Nam since the 1960s. Inspired by folk tunes of the Red River Delta region, he has composed several songs that became popular among Vietnamese people of all ages. Some of those songs, including Trên Đỉnh Phù Vân (On the Top of 'Cloud Summit'), Không Thể và Có Thể (Can't and Can), Về Quê (Back to Homeland), became the hits of different generations of singers. Alongside folk tune-inspired songs, Phương also achieved success with his songs about lakes and rivers, which once dominated music stages across the country. Those songs, including Một Thoáng Tây Hồ (A Glimpse of West Lake), Chảy Đi Sông Ơi (Let's Flow, River), Hồ Trên … [Read more...] about Live show celebrates composer’s 50-year career
“50 years of Uncle Ho’s house on stilts”
PANO - A seminar entitled "50 years of Uncle Ho's house on stilts at the Presidential Palace" was held in Ho Chi Minh relic area in the Presidential Palace on May 15. The wooden stilted house erected within the Presidential Palace in May 1958 is where Uncle Ho lived and worked for the last 11 years of his life. The house so far has received nearly 50 million Vietnamese people and foreigners who came to study the lifestyle of the President and express their love for the beloved leader of the Vietnamese nation. Experts said, Uncle Ho's house on stilt and the Presidential Palace area are a precious museum as they keeping valuable belongings and memories of the eminent revolutionary leader and great cultural icon of Vietnam. Participants to the seminar discussed and gave some opinions and information that partly helped identify the day when the house was built and when President Ho Chi Minh moved in to live. Translated by Mai Huong … [Read more...] about “50 years of Uncle Ho’s house on stilts”
Agent Orange’s horrific legacy remains 50 years on
Len Aldis (L), chairman of Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society, talks with two brothers Le Van Binh (R), 28, and Le Van Thuan, 26, two Agent Orange victims at the opening of the exhibition '50 years of Agent Orange/Dioxin disaster in Vietnam' at War Remnants Museum. Aldis, 80, has voluntarily helped Vietnamese Agent Orange victims for 22 years … [Read more...] about Agent Orange’s horrific legacy remains 50 years on