• Hai Phong man arrested for beheading woman

    10/01/2011 05:00

    Police of the northern port city of Hai Phong have arrested a man who confessed to kill and dismember a woman whose body was found on January 7. Nguyen Dung Giang, 31, confessed that he had killed Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, 38, from Le Chan district, with a hammer to...

  • Two more cold spells to hit northern region

    Two more cold spells to hit northern region

    10/01/2011 05:00

    Two consecutive cold spells will hit the northern region this week with the temperatures dropping to between 5-8 degrees Celsius, warned the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Center. “Mountainous areas in particular are warned of hoarfrost and ice,” said...

  • Violent online games: a many-headed Hydra?

    Violent online games: a many-headed Hydra?

    09/01/2011 05:00

    After five months of tightening control over online games, HCM City authorities have banned 20 games, said an official during yesterday’s conference on online games management. Most of the suspended games are violent, including three most popular gun games —...

  • 74 scientific researches win 12th Eureka Award

    09/01/2011 05:00

    Some 74 scientific projects were awarded in the 12th Eureka Award for student’s scientific research at HCMC Youth Cultural House on January 4. The HCMC Communist Youth League and Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), organized the annual...

  • Hanoi public buses emit black smoke 

    09/01/2011 05:00

    Around 30 percent of public buses checked this year in Hanoi emit black smoke, badly polluting the environment.   Trinh Ngoc Giao, head of Vietnam Register Department, told news website VnExpress that the agency in...

  • 70,000 families to get low-cost houses in 2011 

    09/01/2011 05:00

    Seventy thousand low-income households will receive low-cost houses this year as a series of projects are completed, says  Nguyen Tran Nam, deputy minister of Construction. Nam said many low-cost house projects had...

  • Vietnamese student assaulted in Australia not of danger 

    08/01/2011 05:00

    19-year-old Vu Ngoc Minh, a student at Deakin University’s Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology, is in critical condition after being beaten by a group of youngsters in Australia An overseas Vietnamese student is still in critical...

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