• Police crack down on firecracker smuggling ahead of Tet

    Police crack down on firecracker smuggling ahead of Tet

    02/01/2010 05:00

    With Tet (the lunar New Year), the year’s biggest festival in Vietnam, approaching, police are keeping a close eye on the country’s borders for firecracker smuggling. A haul of illegal firecrackers is seized by police in the northern border city of Lang Son....

  • Greeniants

    01/01/2010 05:00

    Hanoi’s green spaces are a vital part of Hanoi’s aesthetic and poetic charm but some of the city’s oldest trees are under threat from urbanisation and increasing pollution. Hanoi is now a sprawling urban jungle of the 21st century spanning an enlarged...

  • Bus drivers quit, can’t stand road conditions

    01/01/2010 05:00

    A bus bogged down by a street barrier in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1. Bus drivers in Ho Chi Minh City are quitting in droves as street barriers lengthen their trips and decrease their pay....

  • HCMC confirms annual increase in water prices

    01/01/2010 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City will provide clean water at prices almost double existing rates from March this year to meet higher demand, the municipal administration has affirmed. The new prices will be...

  • New year, new rules

    01/01/2010 05:00

    Prepaid subscribers pushing and shoving to register their personal information at a MobiFone store in Ho Chi Minh City Several new regulations will come into force on January 1 while others will be amended....

  • Human traffickers sentenced for selling 86 women

    01/01/2010 05:00

    Nguyen Thi Ngoc Yen (1st, L) and her accomplices in the dock on Wednesday. Four people were sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison in the southern province of Tay Ninh on Wednesday for selling nearly 90 women to...

  • It’s official: Children want more parental respect, care

    01/01/2010 05:00

    Student at an elementary school in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8. Pressure to perform well at school tops the list of grouses Vietnamese children have against their parents, a national writing contest has managed to find...

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