• Vietnam to build tsunami warning systems in 28 provinces 

    22/05/2011 05:00

    The military-owned telecom giant Viettel will cooperate with 28 coastal provinces and cities to survey locations for establishing tsunami warning systems this week. The surveys are scheduled for three days starting Monday...

  • Suspected dog-killing boar caught in central Vietnam 

    22/05/2011 05:00

    The boar weighs an estimated 100 kilograms (Photo: Tien Phong newspaper) Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai on Sunday captured a boar believed to have attacked and killed 20 pet dogs in a coastal...

  • HCMC traffic accidents, deaths on the rise after two-year break 

    21/05/2011 05:00

    At least 220 people were killed in 257 traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of this year. At least 220 people were killed in 257 traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of this year, compared to 176...

  • Passenger rejects civil aviation administration finding  

    21/05/2011 05:00

    Le Minh Khuong is the coach of the national taekwondo team. Vietnam’s national taekwondo team coach Le Minh Khuong says he will protest a decision by the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) to fine him for disrupting a Vietnam...

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 21/5

    SOCIETY IN BRIEF 21/5

    20/05/2011 05:00

    Ministry approves coal trans-shipment port The Ministry of Transport has approved a proposal made by Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) to build a coal trans-shipment port in the southern region. The port will...

  • Two arrested for trafficking women to Singapore for prostitution 

    20/05/2011 05:00

    Vietnamese police said Friday they busted a human trafficking gang that sent Vietnamese women to Singapore and forced them into prostitution. Last week, the police of the Ministry...

  • 60 Vietnamese workers without visas arrested in Moscow 

    20/05/2011 05:00

    The Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) on Thursday announced that it has arrested 60 Vietnamese sewing workers without visas in Moscow, Vietnam News Agency reported.   The workers, who were...

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