• Vietnam sends more students to US

    21/11/2009 05:00

    A representative from Loyola University Chicago (R) in the US talks to Vietnamese students during a US higher-education fair in Hanoi Vietnam ranks ninth among the top ten countries and territories sending students for...

  • Sticks and stones easily break these bones

    21/11/2009 05:00

    Dang Ngoc Phuong looks strong and healthy playing with his friends in front of Phu Do Pagoda in Ha Noi’s Tu Liem District. The Buddhist monks are teaching him the art of tailoring. But few people know that the young teenager has had a bone weakening disease...

  • 500 delta fishermen languish in jails abroad

    21/11/2009 05:00

    Nearly 500 fishermen from the Mekong Delta’s Ca Mau Province are in custody overseas after entering the waters of neighboring nations, according to an official report released Saturday. The Ca...

  • Housing to be allocated by points

    20/11/2009 05:00

    The Ministry of Construction on Monday issued Circular No 36/2009/TT-BXD prescribing eligibility conditions for residents to buy, lease or lease-to-own low-priced public houses. Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Tran Nam said the selection would be...

  • WWF tracks rare rhinos in Vietnam

    20/11/2009 05:00

    The Javan rhinoceros is perhaps the most threatened large mammal in the world, with only two populations known to exist in the wild The World Wildlife Fund for Nature said on Friday it had found the traces of the extremely...

  • Ha Noi to enforce height restrictions

    20/11/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Roadside buildings in Ha Noi’s Old Quarter that have more than three storeys or exceed a 12-metre height limit will be forced to scale back. New construction sites disrupt life on Hang Bac Street. The height of roadside buildings in the Old...

  • Eight year sentence stays unchanged for labor hero

    Eight year sentence stays unchanged for labor hero

    20/11/2009 05:00

    An appeals court on Thursday upheld the eight year jail sentence handed down last August on the former director of a collective farm who had been named a Labor Hero. An appeals court on Thursday upheld the eight year jail sentence handed down last August...

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