• HCMC commuters may soon be taking the boat to work

    HCMC commuters may soon be taking the boat to work

    31/05/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – A firm in HCM City has submitted to the city government its proposal to launch two 11 kilometer water bus routes in the southern metropolis. HCM City could use boat buses to help curb traffic jams...

  • Tien Giang Tourism JS Company director asks to retire

    31/05/2010 05:00

    The Tien Giang Provincial Department of Home Affairs has instructed Tran Thanh Tien, 54, the general director of Tien Giang Tourism JSC, to resign this position. Would-be Miss World sponsor may have acquired Tien Giang Tourism Co. illegally...

  • U.S. Hospital ships return to Vietnam

    U.S. Hospital ships return to Vietnam

    31/05/2010 05:00

    The US Navy’s USNS Mercy hospital ship brought more than 1,000 doctors and nurses to Quy Nhon Port in the central province of Binh Dinh on May 31. The ship is accompanied with a Japanese ship named Kunisaki , which carries...

  • Nearly half of Vietnamese men are adulterers, survey says

    30/05/2010 05:00

    Photo: Cornlord Up to 43 percent of married men have extra-marital affairs, according to a survey released on May 25 by the Institute for Social Development. Marriage laws leave women out in cold Men’s reproductive...

  • Funds for the poor go unused, needy people borrow with interest

    30/05/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has more than 400 billion dong of idle capital for the poor but many still have to borrow money at exorbitant interest rates. Poverty reduction plan success HCM City to spend $158 mil in poverty fight Rural...

  • Chinese drug traffickers condemned to death

    30/05/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – The Supreme People’s Court on May 28 gave a death sentence to five Chinese people who transported nearly eight tons of cannabis resin to Vietnam. Police exchange bullets with Lao drug traffickers Foreign criminals on the rise...

  • Thu Thiem tunnel’s “soaked spots” to be repaired with glue

    Thu Thiem tunnel’s “soaked spots” to be repaired with glue

    30/05/2010 05:00

    The foreign consultant and supervisor of HCM City’s Thu Thiem tunnel has suggested three solutions for the wet and soaked spots in HCM City’s Thu Thiem tunnel, Southeast Asian longest tunnel. The foreign consultant and supervisor of HCM City’s Thu Thiem tunnel,...

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