• Wild elephant kills police officer in Dak Lak

    Wild elephant kills police officer in Dak Lak

    30/10/2012 02:36

    The victim was 42-year-old Cao Quang Canh, a police officer in Ea Le Commune, said Huynh Trung Luan, director of the Dak Lak Elephant Conservation Center. On October 29 Canh and two other men came into a forest in the center to dig up apricot trees and bring them home. When the men were...

  • Vietnam ranks on position of world intellectual map

    26/10/2012 03:07

    Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan praised the achievements of teachers and students at Olympiads held this year and affirmed that these accolades are attributed to the education sector’s active renovation as well as the efforts from localities. He...

  • Strongest-ever earthquake hits Quang Nam

    Strongest-ever earthquake hits Quang Nam

    23/10/2012 03:46

    A series of tremors measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale broke out in the district at 9:42 pm Monday and lasted for about three seconds, said Le Van Tuan, chief of the district People’s Committee’s Secretariat. Thousands of locals rushed out of their houses in panic after they...

  • Vietnamese spend $22 million on rhino hunting permits in South Africa

    22/10/2012 05:08

    The training class for journalists on the anti-wildlife trade was held in Cuc Phuong National Park on Thursday. According to statistics from international organizations, between 2007 and 2009, Vietnamese hunters ranked second, after only the Americans, in terms of the number of rhinos they...

  • Salad vendor earns a million dong each night

    Salad vendor earns a million dong each night

    20/10/2012 07:04

    Mr. Hao sells salad until 1-2am. Hearing the sound from the scissors, people flock to the street to patiently wait for him to make salad plates for them. Just like that, Mr. Luu Van Hao (Lo Su Street, Hanoi ) sells salad until 1-2am. He has followed this job for 30 years. Being...

  • RoK permits Vietnamese workers to return

    RoK permits Vietnamese workers to return

    18/10/2012 03:21

    Phan Van Minh, Director of the Overseas Labour Centre under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said the labourers worked for only one Korean employer and came back home as soon as their work permit expired. Minh said the RoK has implemented some policies encouraging...

  • strange grass seeds abolished in Vietnam

    strange grass seeds abolished in Vietnam

    13/10/2012 02:03

    A number of households in Dan Thanh commune, Duyen Hai district, Tra Vinh province, recently abandoned rice and vegetable crops to plant an exotic grass variety. This grass is unknown to the local authorities and scientists. Mr. Nguyen Van Gioi, Chairman of Dan Thanh commune, said:...

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