• Vietnam faces power shortages

    Vietnam faces power shortages

    14/01/2011 05:00

    Viet Nam would face a power shortage of 3 billion kWh this year because of a lack of water in reservoirs, according to Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN). EVN deputy director Duong Quang Thanh made the statement yesterday at a Ha Noi conference to launch the group’s...

  • 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,...

  • Investor doubts send shares down

    Investor doubts send shares down

    10/01/2011 05:00

    Viet Nam’s stock markets performed poorly in the year’s first trading week with the benchmark indices retreating on both exchanges because of investor uncertainty over market trends. On the HCM City Stock Exchange, the VN-Index dropped 0.58 per cent last week to close...

  • 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...

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