• Rolling in the muck

    15/01/2010 05:00

    Pollution in Vietnam’s rural areas is on the rise, negatively impacting the environment and local inhabitants. The term “craft village” loosely describes small townships in the Vietnamese countryside with specialised trades and industries. The village...

  • New HCMC plan envisions multi-focal megalopolis

    15/01/2010 05:00

    A new urban zoning plan in traffic-overloaded Ho Chi Minh City looks to establish four new socio-commercial hubs and six new districts alongside significant infrastructure development. The plan...

  • Illegal loggers enlist local support in fight against authorities

    14/01/2010 05:00

    Illegal loggers and local residents allied with them fought forest rangers in a national park for 10 hours Saturday last week before police could confiscate illegally cut timber the rangers had discovered....

  • Two sentenced to death for Quang Ninh murderst

    14/01/2010 05:00

    Two men were given death penalties on Tuesday for gunning down six people in the northern province of Quang Ninh in 2008. On December 14, 2008, Dang The Son, 30, together with other four other...

  • Deputy PM okays stiffer fines for traffic violations

    14/01/2010 05:00

    Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on Tuesday agreed that Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City should be allowed to raise fines for traffic violations after they complained about worsening traffic problems....

  • Objections prompt ministry to halt changes in high school exam

    14/01/2010 05:00

    Education ministry on Monday canceled its plan to release foreign languages from compulsory subjects of the annual high school graduation examination in response to the objections of educators and officials....

  • Three dead as truck veers off northern mountainous road

    11/01/2010 05:00

    All three people travelling in a truck were killed Monday morning when it plunged more than 150 meters into a ravine in the northern mountainous Ha Giang Province. The dead have been identified as truck owner Pham Van Thai, 32, driver Tran Van Trung, 27,...

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