• Police seek charges against 16 tobacco smugglers 

    01/12/2010 05:00

    Packs of smuggled cigarettes are destroyed in Vietnam's Tay Ninh Province. Police in the northern Vietnamese province of Phu Tho have asked prosecutors to charge 16 people for smuggling over 1,100 tons...

  • Floods hit central Vietnam again 

    01/12/2010 05:00

    Tuy Hoa Town in the central province of Phu Yen was heavily flooded on Monday Heavy rains Sunday triggered a new round of floods which have already claimed at least one life in the central region of Vietnam, the Central Committee of Storm...

  • Further controversy over “virtual” charity auction

    30/11/2010 05:00

    The 10kg ruby The scandal related to the recently failed charity auction in HCM City, which had the participation of Miss Earth contestants, becomes more complicated when the organizer said that the seller of the event copyright didn’t...

  • Six arrested for catching pigeons

    30/11/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi police on November 28 arrested six people who were accused of catching pigeons which are raised at Hanoi’s Bach Thao Park to serve public events. Police said that these people stole up to 460 pigeons to kill for meat or to sell to...

  • HCM City prepares six programs for New Year holiday

    30/11/2010 05:00

    HCM City authorities have made public the city’s plan to welcome the New Year, with six special programs. Firework shows will take place at seven sites during the 15 first minutes of the New Year. Nguyen Hue city Road will be decorated with flowers and...

  • Kindness builds bridge over troubled water

    Kindness builds bridge over troubled water

    30/11/2010 05:00

    Some say that people have too hardened in the 21st century, that everyone is out for themselves and that the public interest is other peoples’ business. Not so! People use a pulley system known as a flying fox to...

  • The reality of living with HIV

    The reality of living with HIV

    30/11/2010 05:00

    The exhibition Pain and Hope tells the stories of people living with HIV and is one of ten national events being held this year to mark the 20 years since the first case of HIV/AIDS case was diagnosed in Viet Nam. Speaking...

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