• Crocodile attacks student in southern Vietnam 

    16/12/2010 05:00

    Dang Hoang Khai, 20, was attacked by a crocodile at a natural reserve in the southern province of Hau Giang Doctors in the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho Wednesday said they have rejoined the arm of a 20-year-old student who was attacked...

  • Agriculture machinery goes to waste in central Vietnam 

    16/12/2010 05:00

    A tiller left to rust on a Quang Ngai paddy field after more machines than necessary were purchased under a national poverty alleviation program. More than US$3 million worth of welfare support has been wasted in a central Vietnamese province...

  • Joint police operation busts African-led drug ring 

    15/12/2010 05:00

    A joint operation by Vietnamese, Cambodian and Australian police on Monday busted a drug trafficking case led by African nationals.   The police arrested Rohy Mach, 30, and her sister Ma Ry Am, 24,...

  • Bank staff suspended for preparing fake passbook 

    15/12/2010 05:00

    The Saigon-Hanoi Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SHB) Monday suspended two employees for allegedly faking a passbook worth VND50 billion (US$2.56 million) at its branch in the central province of Khanh Hoa. Â...

  • Vietnamese Australian girl enters top world’s 100 beautiful faces

    14/12/2010 05:00

    Natalie Tran, the “YouTube Queen”, ranks 88 th among the 100 most beautiful faces in the world, selected by Independent Critic. She is above movie stars like Penelope Cruz, Isla Fisher, Naomi Watt or Hayden Panettiere. The only standard used Independent...

  • Short stories fill a long sentence

    Short stories fill a long sentence

    14/12/2010 05:00

    Few people believed that a notorious criminal from Hai Phong on death row in prison could write a short-story collection worthy of publishing. The write stuff : Prisoner Pham Ngoc Dinh writes a short-story collection...

  • Truck crashes into 11 vehicles, one dead, six injured 

    14/12/2010 05:00

    One person died and another six were injured when a truck crashed into 11 vehicles that had stopped for the red light at an intersection in Ho Chi Minh City Sunday.   The accident happened on National Highway No.1 A.Â...

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