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Foreign entrepreneur farmers in Vietnam
07/02/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge - There are people from foreign lands in the central highland province of Lam Dong who are seriously involved in farming as a profession. They claim a strong attachment to this region and consider themselves...
9 dead in closed house during a lunar New Year party
07/02/2011 05:00
Nine young persons in their twenties were found dead in a house in the northern city of Hai Phong on the afternoon of Sunday, Feb 6, presumably from an excessive dose of alcohol or drugs. Pham Van Thuc, 50, returned home after a trip during Tet, to find his...
Expressway project on course
07/02/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge - Capital arrangements for the construction of the Danang-Quang Ngai expressway are basically complete. Later last week, a World Bank mission met with Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport (MoT), Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning...
Making living on frozen mountain pass
06/02/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – A market has been operating on the Da Trang mountain pass by Muong ethnic people for more than ten years. This is the place where ethnic minority people sell products they collect from the jungle. The market is a chain of tents...
Housing fund should ease demand for cheaper homes
06/02/2011 05:00
Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Tran Nam talked with Viet Nam News about social housing and the establishment of a housing fund for future projects. Social housing projects have faced difficulties in accessing...
Water fee to include maintenance costs
06/02/2011 05:00
Construction Ministry technical infrastructure administration director Nguyen Hong Tien spoke with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper about a proposal to include installation and maintenance costs in clean water fees. Why has the Viet Nam...
Dr. Nguyen Van Khai: “I’m rich”
06/02/2011 05:00
Dr Nguyen Van Khai, known in Vietnam as the “Ozone man” because he initiated the use of ozone technology in Vietnam, lives in a 70 square meter house in a densely populated quarter of Hanoi, where he grows vegetables and raises fowl. He believes that he is...