• Brand new second hand

    Brand new second hand

    29/01/2010 05:00

    Second hand goods are purchased in China and smuggled into Vietnam where more and more consumers are happy to buy genuine goods at discount prices. Second hand goods are purchased in China and smuggled into Vietnam where more and more consumers are...

  • 360 white stones seized by customs identified as diamonds

    29/01/2010 05:00

    The Ho Chi Minh City customs department on Thursday said 360 white stones confiscated from a Vietnamese man at a local airport on January 17 have been identified as diamonds costing over VND7.1 billion (US$384,615). Luu Chi Hung, 40, was also found...

  • Piqued student burns down principal’s office

    29/01/2010 05:00

    A seventh grader and a school dropout in the central province of Thua Thien Hue city set fire to the principal’s office in the former’s school, burning over 1,000 school reports, local police said Thursday. Sixteen-year-old Tran Van Ky from Thuan...

  • Vietnam, US universities offer MBA for working people

    29/01/2010 05:00

    The Hanoi National University will cooperate with US-based Delaware State University to offer a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Vietnam. Under an agreement signed by representatives of the two universities in Hanoi last week, the...

  • Rape trial left out state officials, other suspects: lawyer

    28/01/2010 05:00

    Sam Duc Xuong at the police station of Vi Xuyen town, Ha Giang Province Some state officials and businessmen were excluded from a high profile case where a school principal was charged with having sex with underage...

  • House painter dies in fall caused by electric shock

    28/01/2010 05:00

    A man who suffered an electric shock and fell off a scaffolding 10 meters high died of serious injures on the way to the hospital in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang on Wednesday. The...

  • Hanoi’s legendary turtle surfaces

    Hanoi’s legendary turtle surfaces

    28/01/2010 05:00

    The ancient turtle suddenly rose to the surface of the Hoan Kiem Lake at 4pm on January 26. Photographer Truong Anh Duc shares his pictures....

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