Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told Da Nang authorities to temporarily close the casino ran by Silvershore Hoang Dat JV Company to address the firm’s violations.

The casino can only reopen once Silvershore Hoang Dat meets the conditions requested by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI).

Da Nang authorities were told to review management of Silvershore Hoang Dat and to closely work with relevant agencies to instruct and supervise this company to deal with violations previously defined by the MoPI.

The Ministries of Finance, Public Security, Labour-War Invalid-Social Affairs, Culture-Sports-Tourism and Foreign Affairs will cooperate with Da Nang to consider and solve the issues related to this casino and hotel.

The Silver Shores International Tourist Site was inaugurated on January 26, 2010 in Da Nang, consisting of a five-star hotel and Vietnam’s largest casino. This was also the largest foreign-invested project in Da Nang in 2006, at $86 million.

Previously, the MoPI asked Da Nang to inspect and supervise the Silver Shores project. According to MoPI, the firm’s license allowed it to have 8 card tables, but it had over 10. The investor also employed a large number of unskilled foreign workers, while Vietnamese law only permits use of foreign experts when the domestic labor market can’t provide workers.

Source:vietnamnet

Amid the mountains of official World Cup kit on sale, frustrated South Africans are snapping up "FEEFA 2.010 WHIRLD CUP" T-shirts as they ridicule FIFA's strict enforcement of its marketing rules.

Argentinean soccer memorabilia is for sale on a street during the South Africa 2010 World Cup match against South Korea in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, June 17, 2010. Argentina won the match 4-1. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

While giants images of Cristiano Ronaldo and Robinho clad in Nike sportswear dominate the Johannesburg skyline, FIFA's determination to stop smaller fish from associating themselves with the World Cup has rankled its hosts.

"South Africa is no longer ruled by the rule of law. South Africa at the moment is ruled by FIFA," said intellectual property rights lawyer Tim Burrell.

"They act very cowardly. They won't take on Nike because Nike is far more powerful financially that they are... They take on the small guys and go for them."

Burrell is defending a man who was placed in FIFA's crosshairs for making keychains depicting a football, a vuvuzela and 2010 -- without paying for the right to do so.

Others to land themselves in legal hot water include two Dutch women who were arrested for bringing into a stadium a group of women in orange mini-dresses, made by a brewery that was not an official sponsor.

They were forced to surrender their passports and pay 1,300 dollars (1,000 euros) bail, but FIFA withdrew the charges after the Dutch foreign ministry called the case "absurd".

A restaurant in southern Port Elizabeth was forced to take down a picture of a football painted on its window while a bar in Pretoria was forced to remove a banner deemed too closely linked to the tournament even before it began.

Generally the country feels grateful to FIFA for choosing South Africa to host the World Cup and for standing up for the nation when sceptics worried that the tournament would never get off the ground.

But FIFA's rules still sometimes grate, as the global body vigorously defends the rights of its official sponsors who have spent one billion dollars for their links to the tournament.

FIFA, which owns exclusive rights to the phrases "2010 World Cup", "World Cup in South Africa", has enjoyed record revenue of 3.2 billion dollars this year.

Still, the organisation says it prefers compromise over litigation, and says it has been more lenient with small businesses.

"FIFA is not preventing small local businesses benefitting from the increased activity during the event period," it said in an email to AFP.

"On the opposite, FIFA is much more lenient with (small businesses), always embarking on an educational and non-aggressive approach."

Nike, however, has never been bothered even though its advertisements around the World Cup have been so successful that many viewers believe the company is an official sponsor, according to a study by Nielsen group.

Others bristle at the commercial restrictions around stadiums and fan parks where only licensed products are allowed, with a preference toward the official sponsors.

"Why should I be forced to pay 30 rands for one reddish American beer when the pub opposite the road sells local quarts for 12 rands?" said investigative journalist Adriaan Basson on his website thoughtleader.co.za.

"FIFA: time for a coup?" he asks.

Source:AFP

Vietnamese and international artists are doing their best to get of the Pottery road recognised as the longest pottery picture in the world.

The 6km-long colourful mosaic covering the dike from Au Co Road through Nghi Tam, Yen Phu, Tran Nhat Duat and Tran Khanh Du roads is divided into 21.sections with various themes. It is just one of the projects to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long- Hanoi.

Source:VOV

Megan Fox and her fiancé Brian Austin Green have married in a small intimate ceremony in Hawaii according to reports in the U.S.

Couple in love: Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox reportedly married last week on the Big Island in Hawaii

The couple, who met on the set of Hope And Faith back in 2004, married last week at the Four Seasons Hotel on the Big Island.

According to American website TMZ the wedding was attended by only a half dozen people.

It's the first marriage for both, although Green has an eight-year-old son, Kassius, with actress Vanessa Marcil.

Lady in red: Megan Fox sizzled on the red carpet at the premiere of her last movie, Jonah Hex

Fox was just 18 when she met the ex-90210 actor, who was 30 at the time, and the pair have been on and off ever since.

They first got engaged in 2007 before Fox broke it off in February 2009.

Reports surfaced two weeks ago that Fox, 24 and Greeen, 36 had gottten engaged again.

US Weekly reported that Green proposed at The Four Seasons (where they subsequently wed) but Megan lost the ring in the sand.

'I saw her jumping up and down,' a source said. 'Later I saw a half dozen staff sifting through the sand.'

But the search was reportedly unsuccessful.

'Security and maintanence staff spent a couple of hours looking for it,' another source said. 'No one found it.'

Fox denied the story though, saying: 'We've been engaged for four years, so I don't know why the story is breaking now like it's new.

'But I'm happy to still be engaged and still be with him.'

Fox recently opened up about her marriage plans: 'I've been in this relationship so long and I love [Brian] so much,' she said. 'And of course [marrriage is] in the future somewhere.

'I'm not closed to that idea. I just think If you're going to [get married], if you're going to be with someone and make a commitment, it's good to tell the universe, to say I'm commiting to this person and making them my family.'

Source:dtinews

The stuffing of the nem ran is comprised of mince pork, sea crabs, eggs, minced Jew's ears, thin-top mushroom, dried onions, bean-sprouts, pepper, spiced salt, etc. The mixture is then rolled in flat rice cakes and fried in a pan until crispy.
Nem are eaten hot with a sauce that it is, at the same time, somewhat salty, sweet, acidic and scented (with the flavours of onion and pepper). Papaya and a few fresh scented vegetables are added.

Pho, a typical dish of Hanoi people, has been existing for a long-time.

Pho is prepared not only in a sophisticated manner but also in the technique which is required to have sweet but pure bouillon, soft but not crashed noodle, soft and sweet-smelling meat.
Only in cold days, having a hot and sweet-smelling bowl of Pho to enjoy, would make you experience the complete flavor of the special dish of Hanoi.

A film telling the historic Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da victory titled Tay Son Hao Kiet (Tay Son heroic soldiers) produced by Ly Huynh Film Studio was recognized as the first historical movie with a large total investment capital of more than VND12 billion (US$600,000) in the country.

Actor Ly Hung ( King Quang Trung ) in the film Tay Son Hao Kiet

More than thousands of people, an elephant herd and numerous horses joined the film.

The film also received 10 certificates of merit from the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee to artists and producer.

Written by Huy Thanh who was honored with the noble title “People Artist”, Cao Duc Truong and famous writer Pham Thuy Nhan, the film tells the story of King Quang Trung and his Tay Son troop, in which they defeated 200,000 Chinese Qing soldiers in Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da, suburban area of Thang Long (an old name of Hanoi) in 1789. It is one of the nation’s most remarkable and remembered historical moments

The film star Ly Hung and Miss Vietnam Universal 2008 Thuy Lam played in the main roles of King Quang Trung and his wife Princess Le Ngoc Han of Le dynasty.

Princess Le Ngoc Han was a daughter of Le Hien Tong, a talented and beautiful woman who married the national hero Nguyen Hue when she was 16 years old. The marriage led to the peaceful unification of the central Tay Son and northern Le dynasties.

Nguyen Hue became Emperor Quang Trung in 1788 and passed away in 1792. Queen Ngoc Han followed him seven years later when she was just 29 years old.

The film’s release will also mark the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Source:.saigon-gpdaily