• Norwegian Wood wins prizes at Asian Film Awards

    Norwegian Wood wins prizes at Asian Film Awards

    21/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – The movie by Vietnamese/French director Tran Anh Hung was presented with the Best Cinematography Award at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong on March 21. A scene from Norwegian Wood The fifth Asian Film Awards gathered together...

  • Vietnam to proceed with nuclear power plants 

    20/03/2011 05:00

    The damaged number three (L) and four reactors of the TEPCO Fukushima No. 1 power plant. A fresh fire broke out at the damaged the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, early on March 16. Vietnam’s energy officials say that recent...

  • US envoy to take up Vietnam, Cambodia adoption 

    20/03/2011 05:00

    A US envoy headed this week to Vietnam and Cambodia to look at ways to resume adoptions, which have been suspended due to concerns over child trafficking, the State Department said Monday (March 14). Susan...

  • Slashers of schoolgirls’ thighs, butts seized

    Slashers of schoolgirls’ thighs, butts seized

    20/03/2011 05:00

    After more than 10 days investigating, police have arrested four young men for allegedly slashing beautiful female students on their thighs or buttocks using a razor or a small knife in Tay Ninh province’s Tay Ninh town in the south. On March 18, the local police...

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 20/3

    19/03/2011 05:00

    Residents leave flood-prone areas Nearly 8,000 households have been moved from flood-prone areas in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta since 2008, under a national programme to build flood-proof residential clusters, representatives said at a project review meeting on...

  • Airport, high school win coveted architecture prize

    Airport, high school win coveted architecture prize

    18/03/2011 05:00

    Architects from the ATEK Group have taken out one of two first prizes under the National Architecture Award 2010 for their design of the Ha Noi-Amsterdam High School. Lien Khuong International Airport in...

  • Red River faces bleak future 

    18/03/2011 05:00

    A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years....

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