• Backstreet Boy says hello to Vietnam

    Backstreet Boy says hello to Vietnam

    16/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Four members of the world famous boyband Backstreet Boy has posted a shot clip named “Hello Vietnam” on Youtube and the band’s Facebook, which has three million members. Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, and A. J. McLean showed...

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 17/3

    16/03/2011 05:00

    HCM City to curb smuggling of gasoline The Ministry of Industry and Trade on March 14 held a conference in Ho Chi Minh City to discuss measures to prevent the smuggling of gasoline. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Vu Huy Hoang chaired the conference...

  • Judge defends closed court hearing of Ha Giang headmaster 

    16/03/2011 05:00

    Lawyers and reporters wait outside the Ha Giang Provincial People's Court, on March 10. Photo courtesy of Tien Phong newspaper The high-profile trial of a headmaster in the northern province of Ha Giang who stood accused of having sex...

  • Ex-Yale lab worker to plead guilty to killing Vietnamese-American 

    15/03/2011 05:00

    Annie Le (L) and Raymond Clark, who is suspected of killing her days before she got married in September, 2009 A former Yale University laboratory worker will plead guilty to killing 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le days before she was...

  • Two men free from electrocution

    Two men free from electrocution

    15/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – A father and his son in the northern province of Bac Giang can directly touch electric wire without being electrocuted. They are Duong Dinh Thang, 57, and his son named Duong Minh Loi, who live in Duc Nghiem commune. Thang discovered the...

  • Vietnam wins three prizes at ASEAN TV Charming 2011

    Vietnam wins three prizes at ASEAN TV Charming 2011

    14/03/2011 05:00

    Vietnamese contestant Van Trang won the second prize, the Audience’s Choice and Most Congenial Contestant title at the final night of the ASEAN Television Charming Pageant in HCM City on March 12. Eighteen contestants from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia,...

  • Street festival at “coffee capital”

    Street festival at “coffee capital”

    14/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Streets of Buon Me Thuot city in Vietnam’s Central Highlands were very excited for the first-ever parade on the afternoon of March 12. This is part of the ongoing biennial Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival, taking place between March 10 and...

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