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
Rare dermal conditions make 26-year-old woman age 50 years: doctors
Vietnamese doctors said Monday a 26-year-old woman, who looks like she is in her 70s, is the second patient in the world to have two rare dermal conditions, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. Nguyen Thi Phuong of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre was diagnosed with cutis laxa - a group of rare connective tissue disorders in which the skin becomes inelastic and hangs loosely in folds - and mastocytosis - a group of rare disorders caused by the presence of too many mast cells in a person's body. On Monday, Dr Hoang Van Minh of HCMC Medicine and Pharmacy University Hospital, told Tuoi Tre that skin sample results sent to Baylor University based in Texas, United States, confirmed Phuong has the two conditions. The HCMC Medicine and Pharmacy University Hospital conducted the last consultation on Phuong's case, which has attracted much public attention in the past few months. She has been in the news since early October when local media showed photos of her looking 50 years older than … [Read more...] about Rare dermal conditions make 26-year-old woman age 50 years: doctors
Strange condition sees young woman age 50 years in days
Doctors have yet to identify what prompted a rapid-aging process in 23-year-old woman who now looks 70 Nguyen Thanh Tuyen's love for his wife never faded as he watched her youthful beauty crumble over a period of just a few days. … [Read more...] about Strange condition sees young woman age 50 years in days