• Over three million households categorized poor in Vietnam 

    03/06/2011 05:00

    Vietnam has over three million poor families, accounting for 14.2 percent of the population, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs reported at a conference held early this week.   "Nearly poor"...

  • Students beaten by building guards in Vietnam metro 

    03/06/2011 05:00

    Tran Hoang An, the most seriously injured student, had black and swollen left eye, congested blood in his head and other injuries. Four high school students in Ho Chi Minh City were hospitalized on Monday night after being beaten by security...

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 3/6

    02/06/2011 05:00

    Cities need to set up cooking safety committees Major cities, including HCM City, should set up a food safety committee that would be responsible for managing product quality, an expert has recommended. The establishment of a committee to coordinate these activities...

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 1/6

    SOCIETY IN BRIEF 1/6

    01/06/2011 05:00

    No chemicals found in Taiwan products: VFA The Vietnam Food Safety Administration (VFA) of the Ministry of Health has verified that no imported products, listed on Taiwan’s warning list, which contained carcinogenic...

  • Vietnamese man falls to death in Thailand 

    01/06/2011 05:00

    A Vietnamese man died after falling from the eighth floor of a building in central Thailand on Monday morning. The body of Tran Huu Dan, 24, was found on the road alongside the Chalerm Phrakiat building of...

  • Vietnamese fishing boat crashed by unknown ship 

    01/06/2011 05:00

    A Vietnamese fishing boat was crashed by an unidentified cargo ship off the coast of the central province of Quang Tri on Tuesday. The boat was fishing on the waters, some 97 nautical miles southeast of Con...

  • Royals’ house turns into a cafe 

    31/05/2011 05:00

    The large poster that used to hang on the citadel’s perimeter wall, bearing the words Tu phuong vo su café-giai khat have since been removed following strong public criticism....

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