• Ha Noi plans to lift lives of ethnic minorities by 2020

    Ha Noi plans to lift lives of ethnic minorities by 2020

    26/11/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – By 2020 there will be no substantially disadvantaged villages or hamlets among ethnic minorities living in mountainous areas of the expanded Ha Noi. The information was noted at the first congress of Ha Noi ethnic minority people held...

  • Cargo ship in flames after collision with barge

    26/11/2009 05:00

    A ship carrying 700 tons of fuel burst into flames when it crashed into a barge on a Ho Chi Minh City river Thursday night, but the local fire brigade reported no casualties. The accident...

  • Vietnam to adopt European standards for English learning

    26/11/2009 05:00

    The education ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Cambridge to set up European standards for English learning and teaching in Vietnam. Developing...

  • Over $315,000 raised for flood victims through SMS

    26/11/2009 05:00

    The Ministry of Information and Communication raised over 5.7 billion dong for flood victims in the central region via mobile text messages. After over one month calling for the people’s contribution to the victims of typhoon Ketsana, 840,803 SMS sent...

  • Gangsters, hitmen, druglords prowl HCMC

    26/11/2009 05:00

    Police escort Vu Van Luan, Tran Van Khoa and Ngo Chi Huan from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City late October. Criminals run the southern hub’s mean streets via networks of contract killers, loan sharks and debt collectors....

  • Two hydrofoils crash head-on, 8 hospitalized

    26/11/2009 05:00

    Two hydrofoils running in opposite directions on the Saigon River collided November 25, sending eight people to hospital. Dong Song Xanh Company’s Greenlines hydrofoil No.10 was carrying 37 passengers including three foreigners from Ho Chi Minh City...

  • Ministry’s move to enhance education quality implies drawbacks

    26/11/2009 05:00

    Education ministry’s efforts to improve higher education quality through students’ evaluation of lecturers’ performance may bring counter-effects without proper preparations and considerations, experts warned....

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