• HCM City prepares for tough law on foreign workers

    19/06/2010 05:00

    HCM City authorities are looking to improve coordination between concerned agencies at different administrative levels as a new decree with tougher work permit stipulations takes effect next week. Ho Chi Minh City authorities are looking to improve coordination...

  • Crazy cyclists pedal along Vietnam in pyjamas

    Crazy cyclists pedal along Vietnam in pyjamas

    19/06/2010 05:00

    For British backpackers Helen Bonnel and Tom Edwards, several years of travelling around the world is not enough. For British backpackers Helen Bonnel and Tom Edwards, several years of travelling around the world is not enough....

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 20/6

    19/06/2010 05:00

    Young volunteers join Hanoi’s millennium anniversary; Vietnam in the top 4 for tourism development; Woman sentenced to 12 years for attempt to kill baby; 18th century tomb excavated in Nha Trang school Young volunteers join Hanoi’s millennium anniversary...

  • Twenty-one injured when chemical warehouse explodes

    18/06/2010 05:00

    Explosions ripped through a chemical company in District 12, HCM City at midday June 17, damaging a dozen nearby houses and injuring 21 workers. First one, and then another explosion started a fire that gutted the warehouse...

  • It’s hot! No relief for Hanoi region until June 20

    18/06/2010 05:00

    Hanoi’s average temperature on June 16, 34.6°C, was the highest recorded on that date since 1961. A government meteorologist expects that rains will break the heat wave at last on Sunday, June 20. VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi’s average temperature on June...

  • Hot weather, power cut, Hanoians flock to streets

    Hot weather, power cut, Hanoians flock to streets

    17/06/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people gathered together on public sites and paved surfaces the evening of June 16 to avoid the heat. Heat wave to burn stronger in Vietnam Ly Thai To Park in Hanoi ’s centre...

  • Smuggling ring broken at Tan Son Nhat airport

    17/06/2010 05:00

    Police have arrested two men, Nguyen Minh Hoang and Nguyen Duc Vu, who police say were important links in a smuggling network via HCM City-based Tan Son Nhat Airport. Vietnam Airlines staff sentenced According to police, Nguyen Duc Vu, a...

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