• Nearly 700 workers save central city from rubbish

    Nearly 700 workers save central city from rubbish

    11/01/2011 05:00

    This huge number of workers was mobilized to work 24 hours a day to clean up the rubbish that was stuck in the central city of Vinh, Nghe An province for a whole week. The rubbish which was not cleaned up for nine days turned Vinh city...

  • Icy weather freeze cattle to death

    11/01/2011 05:00

    More than 400 buffaloes in the northern mountain provinces have frozen to death due to damaging cold weather, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Bac Can Province suffered the most severe losses with 200 buffaloes dead. Ha Giang,...

  • Getting drunk with imported wine

    10/01/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – The volume of imported wine going through the ports in HCM City is soaring these days, just three weeks before Tet. The Tet wine market has been dominated by hundreds of imported wine products. Despite the high...

  • Cold weather threats Hanoi’s peach village

    Cold weather threats Hanoi’s peach village

    10/01/2011 05:00

    Gardeners in Hanoi’s Nhat Tan village are sitting on fire because the cold spell is forecast to prolong, which would mean a poor harvest of flowers. Only three weeks before the lunar New Year are left, but Nhat Tan peach trees don’t blossom yet....

  • Architectural heritage crumbles

    Architectural heritage crumbles

    10/01/2011 05:00

    Historic buildings in two localities that functioned as commercial port towns during the Nguyen dynasty are in a severely dilapidated condition. Safe as houses ? This unique two-storey wooden house in Gia Hoi Old Town is in a bad...

  • Made-in-Vietnam robots dream of going further into the world

    Made-in-Vietnam robots dream of going further into the world

    10/01/2011 05:00

    The year 2010 witnessed an important milestone in Vietnam’s robot industry, when a made-in-Vietnam robot was warmly welcomed in the world market. Being flexible in operation, doing things quickly and exactly, being able to work in the noxious environment and do...

  • Red-headed cranes flock to southwestern Vietnam

    Red-headed cranes flock to southwestern Vietnam

    09/01/2011 05:00

    Experts of the International Crane Foundation have come to the southern province of Kien Giang to watch the number of red-headed cranes (Grus antigone sharpii) which are heading to the bang grass (Lepironia articulate) fields there. Red-headed...

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