• Driving train – a dangerous job in Vietnam

    Driving train – a dangerous job in Vietnam

    28/02/2011 05:00

    Many fatal railway accidents have been reported recently. VietNamNet’s reporters were in the cabin with drivers of a Hanoi-HCM City train to see how dangerous that train driver’s job is....

  • Will Vietnam have a food crisis?

    28/02/2011 05:00

    World cooking prices reached a new historic peak in January 2011, exceeding prices reached during the food crisis of 2007-08. A global food crisis could be looming and local media has discussed a possible rice price fever scenario in Vietnam as seen in 2008. Following are expert views...

  • Hanoi trees losing leaves in spring

    Hanoi trees losing leaves in spring

    28/02/2011 05:00

    It is the middle of spring but many trees in Hanoi are still bare. Source: VNE

  • Vietnamese globetrotters 

    Vietnamese globetrotters 

    27/02/2011 05:00

    The caravan at the border crossing Xa Xia. Last July, four Vietnamese nationals made history, by piling into an all-terrain Mitsubishi and setting off for the Golden Triangle. They weren’t heroin traffickers, wildlife...

  • Preservation suffocation 

    Preservation suffocation 

    27/02/2011 05:00

    Red tape and a lack of funding have reduced Vietnam’s first national heritage village to a decaying tourist trap while officials near Hue city argue that stalled preservation plans...

  • Banks to report state firms’ foreign currency deposits

    27/02/2011 05:00

    The State Bank of Vietnam on Friday’s evening asked financial institutions and banks to report on foreign currency deposits of state conglomerates by the end of next Friday. The report will have to cover all foreign currency deposits recorded until the end...

  • FPT leadership shuffle sparks intrigue

    26/02/2011 05:00

    The public is curious about what is behind recent FPT general director Nguyen Thanh Nam resignation and fresh appointment of deputy general director Truong Dinh Anh as the new general director. The change was beneficial to FPT development in the next 15 years, according to the...

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