• Flowers bloom for Tiger Year Tet

    Flowers bloom for Tiger Year Tet

    09/01/2010 05:00

    “Although there was less rain during 2009 than usual, the weather was still good for kumquat and peach blossoms,” said Chu Duc Toan, owner of a peach garden in Hanoi’s Tay Ho District. Farmer Duong Hoang Long protects his peach trees for Tet in Ha Dong Town....

  • Teachers to receive measly New Year bonuses again

    09/01/2010 05:00

    A makeshift classroom under a resident’s stilt house in Lai Chau’s Sin Ho District Teacher Duong Tan Phat at the Pho Cuong Primary School in the poor central province of Quang Ngai said he had never received a Tet...

  • Large gap between HCMC rich, poor: study

    09/01/2010 05:00

    Urbanization has hurt the poor in Ho Chi Minh City, the first-ever survey on incomes has found, while workers’ minimum and maximum wages differ by a factor of almost seven. Nguyen Quang Vinh, a...

  • 38 universities, colleges to admit fewer students

    09/01/2010 05:00

    Thirty-eight universities and colleges will have their admission quotas cut for the next school year and have to pay fines for violations committed during this year’s enrollment, the education ministry said Friday....

  • Rangers sell smuggled monkeys instead of letting them go

    08/01/2010 05:00

    Forest rangers in the central province of Phu Yen on Monday sold 96 monkeys seized from smugglers earlier this week instead of releasing them into the wild. Vo Ngoc An, head of the Tuy Hoa Town...

  • Vietnam plans $290-350 mil for second satellite

    08/01/2010 05:00

    Vietnam’s first satellite, VINASAT-1, was launched in April 2008. Prime Minister has agreed approved a budget of US$290-350 million to build the country’s second satellite, scheduled for completion by 2012....

  • Southern hub proposes paying unemployment benefits via ATM

    08/01/2010 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance said on Wednesday it had asked local authorities’ permission to pay out unemployment allowances via ATM only. According to the state-run insurer’s director...

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