• Coffee bean pickers swindled in Central Highlands

    03/12/2010 05:00

    In recent days, dozen of residents in central provinces of Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa had been tricked into going to the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong to pick coffee beans with meager payment. Lam Dong province is in severe lack of workers to pick...

  • Vietnamese paintings favored in Singapore

    Vietnamese paintings favored in Singapore

    01/12/2010 05:00

    Black Earth Museum director Ng Ngeng Hee (L) and Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thi Bao Ngoc at the “A touch of Vietnam 2” exhibition last month. Several Vietnamese artists managed to sell their works at an exhibition held at Singapore’s Black Earth...

  • Believing stones to be gold, thousands of people flock to road

    01/12/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people flocked to a road in the southern province of Long An on December 1 and the morning of December 2 to pick up stones as they believed those were gold. Local police said that the 20-km provincial road 838, which runs from Tan Thanh...

  • Vietnam climate change report released

    30/11/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge - ActionAid International in Vietnam (AAV) and the Centre for Research on Environmental Systems (CRES) jointly released their latest report on climate change in Vietnam on November 29. Their report, “Losses and Damages – The Impacts of Climate Change on...

  • Ceremony honours revolutionary historian

    30/11/2010 05:00

    A ceremony commemorating the 125th anniversary of the death of historian Pham Than Duat (1825-85) was held at Ha Noi’s Literature Temple on Monday, honouring his great contributions to Vietnamese people’s revolution against the French colonialists. Duat,...

  • Vietnam’s growth model losing its motive power

    Vietnam’s growth model losing its motive power

    30/11/2010 05:00

    If Vietnam cannot go beyond the current growth model, the nation would be stuck in the “middle income trap” and it will have to face the competition from other lower income countries, experts have warned. Â Meanwhile, the heavy reliance on outside capital sources to...

  • And then, they live

    29/11/2010 05:00

    Behavior Change cannot be achieved with support from NGO and communities only, but with people living with HIV/AIDS themselves really did it by supporting the community to prevent the prevalence of the epidemics, by showing their effort to survive and to fight against the deadly...

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