• Last landslide victim’s body retrieved in central Vietnam

    16/11/2009 05:00

    Rescuer workers in the central province of Quang Nam on Sunday found the last body of the 13 people killed in a mudslide November 5, a local official said. The body of Vo Minh Vuong, 18, was found...

  • Water pipe breakage damages Cat Lai road

    16/11/2009 05:00

    Water released by a broken pipeline punctured two holes in a busy Ho Chi Minh City road Monday morning. The major pipeline broke at around 3am underneath Road 25B, the only route connecting Cat...

  • Dazzling meteor shower comes Vietnam’s way

    16/11/2009 05:00

    Vietnam will see one of the best meteor showers in years on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Nguyen Duc Phuong from the Vietnam Association of Astronomy and Space. The Leonid shower may produce...

  • Each citizen to have social welfare code

    Each citizen to have social welfare code

    16/11/2009 05:00

    The Vietnam Social Insurance Agency has asked the Prime Minister’s permission to build a social welfare code system for all Vietnamese citizens. The agency’s deputy general director Do Van Sinh said the agency is trying to ensure all workers have...

  • Chaos rules at Ha Noi weekend discount sales

    Chaos rules at Ha Noi weekend discount sales

    16/11/2009 05:00

    Chaos ruled as thousands of shopping fanatics crowded Ha Noi supermarkets at the weekend to buy products marked down by 30 to 50 per cent. Police tried desperately to reroute traffic as massive crowds and countless vehicles milled around trying to get into...

  • Largest faked hand phone import detected in HCM City

    Largest faked hand phone import detected in HCM City

    15/11/2009 05:00

    Some 800 fake Nokia cell phones, imported by a private firm in HCM City via Tan Son Nhat International Airport, were seized by customs on November 13. This is the largest import of faked phones via air unveiled in Vietnam so far in 2009. Most of the...

  • German Embassy heads search for Vietnamese-German Minister’s roots

    German Embassy heads search for Vietnamese-German Minister’s roots

    15/11/2009 05:00

    The German Embassy in Vietnam began a search for the origins of the new German Minister of Health, Philipp Roesler. Photo: kreiszeitung.de Ly Hoa Khuong, coordinator of the German GTZ organisation’s natural resource management project in Soc...

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