• Gov’t to quickly appoint young vice chairs for poor communes

    Gov’t to quickly appoint young vice chairs for poor communes

    11/07/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Instead of implementing an experimental program in five provinces in 2011-2012, with 100 members; Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to expand the program to 20 provinces, with 600 members....

  • Enterprises sell electricity to China, Government purchases electricity from China

    Enterprises sell electricity to China, Government purchases electricity from China

    11/07/2011 05:00

    A paradox has existed: while power plants have capacity in excess and they have to sell electricity to China, the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) still plans to purchase electricity from China in the upcoming years. Power plants...

  • Book naming 4,000 martyrs makes Vietnam’s record

    Book naming 4,000 martyrs makes Vietnam’s record

    11/07/2011 05:00

    After nearly 40 years, the list of more than 4,000 martyrs in the 81-day battle of 1972, in the ancient citadel of Quang Tri province, has been made public in the single-copy book entitled “Legends of Quang Tri Ancient Citadel”....

  • Unexploded 245-kilogram bomb unearthed in northern Vietnam 

    11/07/2011 05:00

    Vietnamese soldiers stand next to a war-era bomb A bomb weighing 245 kilograms was successfully defused in the northern province of Tuyen Quang, Vietnam News Agency quoted a local official as saying on Friday.  ...

  • Two dead in Hanoi bar fire 

    11/07/2011 05:00

    A firefighting truck in front of the EZ Club (Photo: VnExpress) Two men died from smoke inhalation after fire erupted in a popular shisha bar in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, on Thursday, newswire VnExpress reported....

  • Procrastination – a national malaise 

    11/07/2011 05:00

    A customer uses an automated teller machine (ATM) in Ho Chi Minh City. It can be said without exaggeration that delaying deadlines has become a chronic disease in Vietnam, especially at the administrative level. Whether it is an...

  • Regulators vow sufficient electrical supply

    Regulators vow sufficient electrical supply

    11/07/2011 05:00

    The total output of electricity for the rest of the year is scheduled to be 3 – 10 per cent higher than expected, meeting the country’s power demand, according to the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Viet Nam (ERAV)....

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