• Eating like a mountain man 

    Eating like a mountain man 

    27/11/2010 05:00

    cooking 06310w.jpg" alt="" /> Bamboo tubes of grilled buffalo meat at Hoa Ban Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City’s Nha Be District Northwest Vietnam has some of the country’s most striking vistas. The rugged terrain is home to jagged mountains,...

  • Apple makes big land purchase to expand headquarters

    27/11/2010 05:00

    Rapidly growing Apple Inc. has bought 98 acres of land in Cupertino, nearly doubling the size of its headquarters in the city in U.S. state of California, U.S. media reported on Friday. Apple bought the land from another Silicon Valley giant Hewlett- Packard Co. (HP),...

  • Central Vietnam coast braces for oil tide 

    27/11/2010 05:00

    A stretch of beach in Da Nang City Authorities along the central coast are bracing for a shipwrecked Chinese oil tanker to begin leaking, VnExpress reported Saturday.   Le My Lien, director of the Quang Ngai Department of Natural...

  • Hanoi donates $100,000 to Cambodian victims

    Hanoi donates $100,000 to Cambodian victims

    26/11/2010 05:00

    On behalf of the Hanoi people, Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi has offered a letter of condolence to the Phnom Penh city for the stampede disaster that killed and injured hundreds of people on November 22. According...

  • The condotel has landed

    26/11/2010 05:00

    The condo-hotel is an alien concept for Vietnam but developers now believe the time is right to introduce this product to the market. Duc Hanh examines what the attractions are for investors and owners So, first of all, what is a condo-hotel or a condotel? It’s a...

  • Workers fight for survival as prices soar

    26/11/2010 05:00

    As the lunar New Year festival approaches, the prices of goods have soared as usual. But the increase has come earlier this year. As the Vietnamese dong continues to depreciate, people have been faced with increased living costs. Ta Van Sy, a labourer at HCM City’s...

  • By the people, for the people

    26/11/2010 05:00

    Propaganda art is well-known in Vietnam and has proved highly popular with tourists but in this era of mass-marketing, billboard advertisements and TV commercials is anyone producing original propaganda art anymore? Vietnam’s President Ho Chi Minh once said “when...

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