Africa

11-year-old girl wins Best Actress award

Phung Hoa Hoai Linh, 11, has just won the Best Actress award at the 8th annual Dubai International Film Festival on December 14

Forget China, invest in Africa says Russia's Renaissance

Investors should forget China and park their money in sub-Saharan Africa if they wish to benefit from the growth in emerging markets

Africa, South America seek closer ties

Representatives from 55 African and South American countries opened a conference here on Thursday calling for closer co-opeation between the two continents, some criticising the model of Western powers.

South African NA leader seeks to lift ties

Viet Nam highly regarded its traditional friendship and co-operation with South Africa, Nguyen Sinh Hung, Chairman of the Viet Nam National Assembly told the Speaker of the South African National Assembly Max Vuyisile Sisulu in the capital city yesterday.

VN, S Africa boost legislative cooperation

Vietnam and South Africa should build mechanisms for greater legislative coordination and sign cooperative agreements between the two national assemblies.

Climate to widen sleeping sickness risk to southern Africa

Sleeping sickness could threaten tens of millions more people as the tsetse fly which transmits the disease spreads to southern Africa as a result of global warming, a study published on Wednesday says.

Australia passes landmark carbon price laws

Australia passed landmark laws on Tuesday to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade and injecting new impetus into December's global climate talks in South Africa

Room to Read founder back in Vietnam

John Wood’s nonprofit supports education in Asia and Africa by setting up schools and libraries and donating books to children

Ancient art studio uncovered in South Africa

Two shells containing a primitive paint mixture have been uncovered in South Africa, revealing what researchers believe may be the remnants of a 100,000 year old art studio.

VN, South Africa act on wildlife protection

A delegation from Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Vietnam is on a working visit to South Africa from Sept. 26-Oct. 1 at the invitation of the biodiversity and natural conservation agency under the Ministry of Environmental Affairs.

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Ethanol to become released because of insufficient domestic demand

HN — PetroVietnam has introduced that it'll increase exports of ethanol fuels because of deficiencies in market demand in your own home.Within Government arrange for developing the bio-fuel market through 2015, having a vision to 2025, the audience invested US$270 million in three ethanol plants in Binh Phuoc, Phu Tho and Quang Ngai provinces having a total productive capacity of 300,000cu.m yearly. However, despite being cheaper by about VND500 per litre than conventional A92 gas, customers haven't

Sea food exporters lack capital, demand

Employees from the Thong Thuan Sea food Joint Stock Co process shrimp. Many sea food companies happen to be instructed to suspend production because of deficiencies in capital and falling exports. — VNA/VNS Photo Danh Lam HN — The amount of sea food exporters dropped within the first quarter of the year because of insufficient capital and falling exports, the Viet nam Association of Sea food Exporters and Producers (VASEP) stated.Within the