• Flowers flood Hanoi

    Flowers flood Hanoi

    31/01/2010 05:00

    The lunar New Year is still two weeks away, but the capital city is already flooded by peach and kumquat flowers....

  • More foreign drug smugglers entering Vietnam: ministry

    30/01/2010 05:00

    An increasing amount of drugs are being smuggled into Vietnam and the number of foreign criminals involved in such cases rose dramatically in 2009, the Ministry of Public Security has reported....

  • Official jailed for five years in Vietnam e-gov’t scam

    30/01/2010 05:00

    Vu Dinh Thuan, former deputy head of the Government Office and head of Project 112 The former head of a government office was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for abuse of power in a failed e-government project....

  • Ex-officials tried for tax exemption tricks in southern Vietnam

    30/01/2010 05:00

    Dang Thi Bach Tuyet (Front), a former official at the Dong Nai Province Tax Agency, is examined on Tuesday The trial of six former senior tax officials charged with allowing a Taiwanese-invested fisheries company to evade...

  • Mass killing may push Vietnam’s tigers to extinction in 12 years

    30/01/2010 05:00

    The Indochinese tiger is only found in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam Indochina’s big-cat population at ‘crisis point,’ could vanish by next Year of Tiger, says WWF....

  • Vietnam hub fear rising tides as Tet approaches

    30/01/2010 05:00

    High tides are likely to submerge city’s low-lying streets again over the holidays Residents in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8 built a makeshift dike with sand bags to prevent high tides from flooding their homes. A project to tackle floods is still in...

  • Vietnam film students inspired by surprise Hollywood victory

    30/01/2010 05:00

    Director Nguyen Do Khoa (L), aka eNKee Nguyen, and a Vietnamese crew member set up a shot on the set of The 4th The unexpected victory of Vietnamese college students at a Hollywood film festival has inspired a sequel and...

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