At the event (Source: VNA) Tokyo (VNA) - An exchange programme between enterprises operating in Japan’s Aichi prefecture and international students took place at the University of Nagoya last weekend as part of Japan’s recruitment activities. Jointly organised by the Vietnamese Alumni Association in Aichi prefecture Association in Aichi prefecture (VARONET), the Vietnamese Students and Youth Union in Central Japan (VYSA Tokai) and relevant organisations, the event attracted over 50 Japanese companies and organisations such as Denso, Marubushi, Kanefusa, and around 200 foreign students, including those from Vietnam. The event aimed to promote connection between foreign students in Japan with local firms which have demand for international human resources. It also offered a good chance for students to pick necessary information related to the Japanese labour market, and learn experience from those who had studied and worked in … [Read more...] about Japanese firms seek to recruit Vietnamese labourers
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Architect Vo Trong Nghia and his journey to “seek failure”
VietNamNet Bridge - Returning to Vietnam to "seek failure" at the advice of his Japanese teacher six years ago, architect Vo Trong Nghia faced great difficulties at the beginning--to harvest stunning successes later. Since Nghia won the 2007 International Architecture Award (IAA) for his bamboo-made water and wind café in the southern province of Binh Duong, he has received around 30 international architecture awards. Among them are two gold medals of the Asian Architects' Association, five International Architecture Awards (US), four Green Good Design awards (US), two Asia FuturArc Green Leadership Award, etc. So far this year, he has won seven international prizes. Nghia was born in 1976 in a peasant family in the central province of Quang Binh. Graduating from the Hanoi Architecture University, he got a scholarship of the Japanese government in 1996 to study architecture at the Nagoya Technology Institute. He was the first laurette of the architecture faculty in 2002. During his … [Read more...] about Architect Vo Trong Nghia and his journey to “seek failure”
1 American and 2 Japanese physicists share Nobel for work on LED lights
Three physicists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for revolutionizing the way the world is lighted. The 2014 physics award went to Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, for “the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.” From left, the researchers Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.” Photo by AFP. The three scientists, working together and separately, found a way to produce blue light beams from semiconductors in the early 1990s. Others had produced red and green diodes, but without blue diodes, white light could not be produced, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday morning in its prize citation. “They succeeded where … [Read more...] about 1 American and 2 Japanese physicists share Nobel for work on LED lights
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 5/6
Vietnam eager to develop Lien Chieu deep seaport The government has been urging the authorities to appraise Lien Chieu Seaport, showing strong support and promising smoother sailing for the project. Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung recently urged the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) to appraise the capital sources and mobilisation methods of investment capital at Lien Chieu port. Besides, the DPM assigned the Danang People’s Committee to complete the pre-feasibility report for the project after the city studied MPI’ appraisal. Based on reports of MPI and Danang city, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) was asked to build the investment planning evaluation report to submit the prime minister for approval. The assignment of the DPM shows Vietnam’s eagerness to develop the Lien Chieu Seaport project, which is considered one of two key projects that aim to boost the central city as a main logistics centre in the ASEAN and the East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) … [Read more...] about BUSINESS IN BRIEF 5/6
Social Highlights for November 22
Figure of vaccinated children drops in Da Lat Town The figure shows a sharp fall in vaccinations in children compared to previous times when 90 percent were vaccinated, due to adverse information that worried parents. The vaccine Quinvaxem had been earlier suspended due to post-vaccination reactions in children, but then again re-used after several months. Dr. Vinh said six toddlers who were hospitalized after vaccination from November 14 -16 have been discharged from hospitals. They were taken to Lam Dong General Hospital as they suffered side effects from the vaccine, such as fever and vomiting. One of them even turned blue and developed convulsion fits. In addition, 20 others were also taken to health centers in districts and communes for post vaccination side effects. 10 motorbikes seized from foreign caravan in Saigon At 8:30am on November 20, local traffic policemen found the motorbikes travelling on a banned road in district 9 near Suoi Tien Cultural Park and pulled … [Read more...] about Social Highlights for November 22