• Monkey business ends as rescue center receives primates

    20/01/2010 05:00

    Smuggled monkeys found in the central province of Phu Yen early this month and later sold by local forest rangers were on Tuesday handed over to a wildlife rescue center in the capital city. Under...

  • Sewage floods Vietnam city as construction blocks canals

    20/01/2010 05:00

    A boy walks through Thanh Xuan Ward in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 12. Thousands of people on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City are up to their knees in sewage after a drainage project began blocking a local canal two...

  • Rare tropical depression kills two, submerges 66 boats in Vietnam

    20/01/2010 05:00

    At least two people died and 66 boats sunk in the central province of Binh Thuan during a tropical depression Wednesday, a rarity in Vietnam this time of year, the provincial weather agency reported....

  • Out-of-season bad weather kills two and sinks many boats

    Out-of-season bad weather kills two and sinks many boats

    20/01/2010 05:00

    An out-of-season tropical depression entered the mainland on January 20 and caused heavy rain and strong winds in southern Vietnam and the Central Regions. A pine tree falls in Da Lat city. Strong waves plunged 18 boats and damaged 68 others,...

  • The Red River Desert

    19/01/2010 05:00

    Grass grows and ox carts and cars travel on the dry river-bed of Hanoi’s Red River. It’s more like a desert than a river bed. The Red River, the section running through Nhat Tan, Tu Lien and Phuc Xa wards, has been dried up for several months....

  • Over 2200 illegal foreign workers in HCM City

    19/01/2010 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – The total number of foreign workers in HCM City is 16,055, including 2219 people without work permits, according to a report of HCM City People’s Committee. Foreign laborers in an asset dispute in HCM City. The report said that...

  • Hanoi’s Old Quarter chaotic as Tet looms

    Hanoi’s Old Quarter chaotic as Tet looms

    19/01/2010 05:00

    Clothes displayed on the road, vendors everywhere, motorbikes on the roadside… these are the latest images in the Hanoi’s Old Quarter one month before the lunar New Year. Fashion shops on Hang Dao and Hang Ngang display their products on the pavement and the...

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