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It’s just less than two weeks away from Vietnam’s Lunar New Year festival (Tet) which optimizes the cultural identity of the country. But the Hanoian (another word for Hanoi people) have already started to look for peach blossoms – a symbol of spring arrival. The beauty of flower villages not only attracts the old residents of Hanoi [...]
32-year-old Nguyen Duy Hai from Da Lat, the man with tumor and now without it is recovering well three days after the 12-hour surgery on Thursday, France – Vietnam Hospital’s spokesperson announced Saturday. Asked how he felt after the operation, Hai smiled and said “I feel so much lighter now but it still hurts a [...]
Lao Prime Minister Thongsin Thammavong received Vietnamese Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Vientiane on Jan. 8. The Vietnamese Deputy PM was on a visit to Laos to attend the 34th session of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-governmental Committee on economic, cultural, education, scientific and technological cooperation. Deputy PM Phuc, who is also Chairman of the Vietnam-Laos [...]
The Supreme People’s Procuracy held a conference in Hanoi on Jan. 8 to launch their tasks for 2012 in the presence of President Truong Tan Sang. Speaking at the conference, President Sang praised the procuracy sector’s efforts in the past year, saying that the sector worked closely with other judicial agencies to better investigation and [...]
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Somsavath Lengsavad have co-chaired the 34th session of the Vietnam-Laos Intergovernmental Committee on socio-economic, scientific and technological cooperation in Vientiane, Laos. At the five-day session that wrapped up on Jan. 7, both sides reviewed the implementation of agreements on socio-economic, scientific and technological cooperation [...]
Yesterday 15 fishermen whose boat sank after being hit by a strange boat off Binh Thuan Province were rescued by a Liberian-flagged ship, while 10 others remained missing in another sinking in Ca Mau Province. On early Sunday morning, a boat with a 15-member crew on board was drifting 93 nautical miles west off Binh [...]
Police in Mong Cai Town, Quang Ninh Province yesterday arrested two men for throwing a hand-grenade towards a police team, injuring a major and five local residents. Nguyen Van Thang and Tran Phuoc Hung, both 21 and residing in the town, have been detained for allegedly committing an intended act of murder, police said. On [...]
The TV right dispute between AVG Group, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the Vietnam Professional Football Company (VPF) has become a focus of the local media in recent days. One of the key points in the dispute is–who has the right to sell the broadcast right of football leagues, VFF or VPF? If it [...]
Hanoi has asked the government’s permission to delay change of work hours for a month. Accordingly, the adjustment to school and work schedules in Hanoi would begin from February 1 next year, instead of January 1, said Hanoi’s Mayor Nguyen The Thao in a meeting with Hanoi’s voters last week. Thao said the adjustment would [...]
Besides panic-stricken names like colonel Ernest Medina, lieutenant William Calley, who are seen as killers, My Lai people consider some American soldiers as heroes and their benefactors. Murders Mrs. Pham Thi Tot, a survival of the massacre. Mrs. Pham Thi Tot, from Binh Tay hamlet, Son My, a witness of the My Lai massacre, leaned [...]