• Storming Hoan Kiem Lake 

    06/04/2011 05:00

    Young motorcyclists gathered on a corner opposite Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake at 1 a.m. on Sunday (March 20). The streets of downtown Hanoi had emptied of all but a few late night revelers. By midnight, on a recent Saturday, a light rain...

  • Saigon’s cooking classes 

    06/04/2011 05:00

    Students at the Saigon Cooking Class learning Vietnamese cuisine Saigon is chock-full of cheap, fresh and easy dining options. It’s no surprise that most expats living here feel little need to cook. Even those with the best intentions...

  • Blood donors put off by long wait

    Blood donors put off by long wait

    06/04/2011 05:00

    Weaknesses in blood drive organisations have driven voluntary donors away from giving blood, health experts have said. Local people donate their blood in HCM City’s Institute of Haematology and Blood...

  • Re-sold into slavery 

    05/04/2011 05:00

    Underage workers employed at a garment sweatshop in HCMC Three teenage girls, aged 15 to 16, returned home last week from brothels allegedly disguised as barbershops in the Central Highlands town of Buon Ma Thuot. Two of the girls...

  • Eight years on, environmental eyesores remain blot on landscape

    Eight years on, environmental eyesores remain blot on landscape

    04/04/2011 05:00

    Eight years after the Prime Minister’s decision to deal with 439 ‘black spots’ that have seriously polluted the environment, 101 of these spots are yet to be cleaned up, said Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on Saturday....

  • National Assembly flexes legislative muscles with bill rejections 

    03/04/2011 05:00

    Lawmakers’ rejection of a bill that would give special rights and privileges to Hanoi in the final session of its 2007-2011 term was a rare move, demonstrating a more active role taken by the legislature, experts say. Lawmakers’ rejection of...

  • Five foreigners face drug trafficking charges 

    03/04/2011 05:00

    Vietnam’s highest prosecutor, the People’s Supreme Procuracy, has pressed charges against five foreigners and a Vietnamese national for trafficking in heroin.   According to the indictment, in 2006,...

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