• Ministry to get tougher on immunisation malpractice

  A child in southern Binh Duong Province is vaccinated. Health departments in localities have been asked to tighten immunisation services management after several violations were discovered. -- VNA/VNS Photo Duong ...

• Appeal trial held for eight defendants

  Appeal trial held for eight defendants NGHE AN (VNS)-- The Supreme People's Court's Court of Appeal yesterday heard the cases of eight people previously convicted of "carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people's Government" pursuant to Clauses 1 and 2, Article 79 of the Penal Code. The trial, in the central province of Nghe An, was opened as the accused ...

• Newspaper receives award for contribution to journalism

  Newspaper receives award for contribution to journalism HA NOI (VNS)-- The Tin Tuc (News) daily under the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) received the Labour Order, Second Class, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary at a ceremony yesterday. Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan also sent flowers of ...

• Govt flags national crackdown on drugs

  Gov't flags national crackdown on drugs HA NOI (VNS)-- The Government has launched a crackdown on illegal drugs which will take place throughout June. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung requested all ministries and state agencies to launch the one-month campaign in order to promote public awareness of the dangers of drugs. The campaign will target vulnerable groups such as adolescents in ...

• Phu Tho drug traffickers jailed

  Phu Tho drug traffickers jailed PHU THO (VNS)-- Twenty-five drug traffickers have received sentences as a three-day trial ended yesterday in the northern province of Phu Tho. Life sentences were handed down to the group's ringleaders, Pham Huu Nghi, 47, from Thanh Son District and Mua A Sang, 30, from Son La Province. According to the indictment, Nghi used to accompany drug users to ...

• Ministry to crackdown on dated diplomatic licences

  Ministry to crackdown on dated diplomatic licences HA NOI (VNS)-- The Ministry of Public Security will inspect cars with diplomatic licence plates, handing out fines to those that are out of date. The move, starting from June 10, reflects the fact that more than 1,000 tax-free cars for foreign diplomats and staff had been misused or illegally transferred without tax payments. The State is ...

• Bank lends on clean water project

  Bank lends on clean water project HA NOI (VNS)-- Over 3 million people living in six cities and provinces in Viet Nam are expected to gain access to clean water after loan and grant agreements worth a total of US$249 million were signed yesterday. Signatories were the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The first loan agreement, worth $212 million, will be ...

• Indian investors in search of Vietnam opportunities

  Vietnam is a "top priority" investment destination in Asia for Indian companies, especially for those from Haryana state.This was revealed at a conference held in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday by Pankaj Kapoor, chairman of the Haryana Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Kapoor said companies from Haryana, a state that borders the Indian capital of New Delhi, were looking for co-operation ...

• Job market tough for new graduates

  Final-year students learn to create online applications for jobs in HCM City Youth Culture House. Many graduates will be unemployed this year, the HCM City's Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information said. -- VNA/VNS Photo Phuong ...

• Weasel coffee other delicacies lure visitors to Da Lats farms

  by Minh Thu Da Lat City's wonderful landscape and pure air at 1,500m above sea level attracts tourists to the Lam Vien plateau in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. "You can't travel to Da Lat and not discover the local culture," said Tran Anh Tu, owner of my little hotel, in an effort to convince my husband and I to stay longer. So we followed his suggestion and ...

• Vietnam boosts ties with Australia

  Vietnam's National Assembly (NA) wants to expand dialogue with the Australian House of Representatives in all areas to share information, build trust and promote mutual understanding.NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung made the comments at his talks with Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Anna Burke in Ha Noi yesterday after greeting her at an official welcome ceremony.Hung ...

• Vietnam moves to save last elephants

  The Vietnam government has given the go-ahead to a plan to protect elephants from extinction and breed domesticated ones.The plan, worth US$13.3 million, was signed yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister Hong Trung Hai.Under the plan, three conservation areas for wild elephants will be set up in national parks of Pu Mat, Cat Tien, and Yok Don.And laws against hunting, transporting and selling ...

• Vietnam POWs Gather At Nixon Library For Reunion

  YORBA LINDA (CBSLA.com) -- Scores of Vietnam POWs are gathering for a three-day reunion at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. ';It was hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of pure terror,'; said former POW Jerry Coffee of his experience. Standing next to his former cell mate, Neil Black, the two men spoke to KCAL9′s Louisa Hodge about the experience and their ...

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial replica wall on display

  HAVERHILL - Rick Ladd scanned the wide black wall in North Haverhill Thursday, searching for the name William Bond, a brigadier general and Ladd’s old commanding officer in Vietnam."He was an outstanding leader, a good tactician loved by his men. He was not an armchair general. So we remember," said Ladd, a Haverhill selectman and New Hampshire state ...

• ODD NEWS Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam

  Having read the news item "Jordan’s ambassador to Macedonia presents credentials" (The Jordan Times, May 23, 2013), I would like to stress that no such country is a member of the United ...

• Pan Pacific Petroleum days from spudding Vietnam offshore oil and gas well

  (MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Pan Pacific Petroleum (ASX: PPP) is poised to participate in the drilling of up to three wells in the Nam Con Son Basin offshore southern Vietnam.The Ocean General semi-submersible drilling rig is now on tow to Block 121, operated by Origin Energy (ASX: ORG) to drill the Ca Voi-1X well targeting the large Whale Prospect.Ca Voi-1X is expected to spud ...

• RP to export for first timehybrid corn seed to Vietnam in2...

  MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will be able to export for the first time its hybrid corn seed once nearby Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam opens up to biotechnology products within the next two ...

• Vietnam nationals caught after Qld escape

  SEVEN Vietnamese nationals who broke out of a remote Cape York detention centre have been caught in Cairns. The group are understood to have climbed over a fence at the Scherger detention centre, about 15km east of Weipa, on Thursday. "The circumstances of how they escaped are still unclear," a Department of Immigration spokeswoman told AAP. It's believed the group then managed to ...

• Leading Vietnamese Bank Reaches New Clients with IBM Smarter Computing

  Saigon Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank , one of the leading commercial banks in Vietnam, has turned to IBM Systems and Software to streamline business processes across its IT infrastructure and enable broader client reach through new online and mobile banking services. ...

• Vietnam War-era films unearthed man attempts to reunite families with their films

  (CBS News) Keeping in touch with loved ones fighting on the front lines has changed. These days, military families can use webcams or e-mail. In the past, they turned to home video, and before that, film. A man in Albuquerque, N.M., found some rare film footage from the Vietnam War era and now, he wants to return those memories to more than 200 families. In 1968, Sheri Maloy is one of the people ...

• Vietnam - Coalition calls on Vietnamese government to end persecution of activists

  joined a coalition of organisations to pressure the Vietnamese government to end its persecution of the activists. The eight activists, along with six others, were charged under Article 79 of Vietnam's penal code for "carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people's ...

• Clumsy crane operator sends tree crashing cutting power to one-third of Vietnam

  A clumsy crane operator triggered a 10-hour blackout across a third of Vietnam on Wednesday, exposing the fragility of the nation’s power grid. — JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty ...

• Vietnam activist sentences reduced

  A Vietnamese court has reduced the prison sentences of four activists convicted in January of trying to overthrow the communist state. Eight out of 14 defendants convicted had appealed against their sentences, four of whom were successful on Thursday, their lawyer has said. Most of the jailed were Catholics, but they included bloggers and students. Scores of activists have been jailed since ...

• The best books on Vietnam start your reading here | Pushpinder Khaneka

  Vietnam ) war by a North Vietnamese army veteran, although fiction, revealed truths to many people inside and outside Vietnam. The main protagonist, Kien - a thinly disguised portrait of the author - is a tortured soul whose sanity is threatened by his brutal experiences during the war.The story begins after the war, with Kien working in an army unit clearing battlefields of rotting corpses. The ...

• Research and Markets Vietnam Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020

  "Vietnam Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Infrastructure, Supply- demand and competitive landscape" report to their offering. Vietnam oil and gas storage industry research work from OGAnalysis is a compulsory report for all analysts involved in the oil storage sector. It provides all the key trends and analyzes the drivers and restraints of ...

• Vietnamese woman Singaporean man jailed for sham marriage

  A Vietnamese woman and a Singaporean man have become the first couple to be prosecuted under a new law aimed at deterring marriages of ...

• Video Watch Rare Vietnam War tapes unearthed

  Military families of the past used to rely on film to keep in touch with loved ones on the front line. Jim Axelrod reports on a man who found some rare footage from the Vietnam War, and wants to return those memories to more than 200 ...

• Crane error blacks out one third of Vietnam

  HANOI (AFP) - Over a third of Vietnam as well as the capital of neighbouring Cambodia suffered a blackout this week after a crane operator knocked a tree onto a key power line, electricity officials said Thursday.Twenty-two of Vietnam's southern provinces -- out of a nationwide total of 63 -- lost power for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon including the southern commercial centre of Ho ...

• Crane disrupts Vietnam energy supply

  A mistake by a crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam and parts of neighbouring Cambodia, officials say. Vietnamese state electricity company EVN said in a statement that the blackout happened on Wednesday after the operator knocked a tree down. It fell onto the main north-south high voltage power transmission line. Electricity supplies in Ho Chi Minh City and ...

• Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

  In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ...

• Decades later Vietnam vets to get their welcome home

  Allen County Councilman Kevin Howell announces plans to raise money for a Vietnam veterans parade. He is joined by, from left, Wayne Township Trustee Rick Stevenson and veterans Bennie Edwards and Jim ...

• Vietnam index falls on regional declines banks lead losses

  HANOI, May 23 (Reuters) - Vietnam's benchmark stock index ended down 0.8 percent as foreign and domestic investors sold banking and property stocks after losses in overseas markers in Japan and China, traders said. Exchange-traded funds sold shares in the two sectors, including Hanoi-based Vietcombank, Vietnam's third-largest partly private bank, after Japan's market lost more than ...

• Device to stop taxi cheats

  This is the latest attempt by the Government to tackle rampant taxi scams at airports. Dodgy taxi drivers are reported to be ripping off tourists with impunity as soon as they arrive in Viet Nam, doing serious damage to the nation's ...

• Vietnam-France relations edge closer

  Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday hailed Vietnam's valued relationship with France and declared that the two nations are making efforts to develop their ties to the strategic partnership level in 2013. The PM made the comments at a meeting with the former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who is on an official working visit to the country. Dung declared ...

• Quang Binh fishermen free trapped whale

  Quang Binh fishermen free trapped whale QUANG BINH (VNS)-- Authorities and fishermen in central Quang Binh Province's Le Thuy District yesterday rescued a whale caught in a fishing net. The whale, which is 5m long and weighs one tonne, was discovered by two fishermen off the coast of Ngu Thuy Trung Commune. They brought it into the harbor and notified the local authorities later. The ...

• Fake concrete found in support pillars

  Fake concrete found in support pillars HA NOI (VNS)-- Authorities in Ha Noi on Tuesday found a local company illegally producing fake additives to make concrete piles to support buildings. At Ha Noi Trade and Technology Application Limited Company, the city's market watch confiscated 15.3 tonnes of fake additives packed in 530 packages - plus details about the company's production ...

• Viet Nam wins medals at informatics event

  Viet Nam wins medals at informatics event HA NOI (VNS)-- Viet Nam has won a gold, a silver and three bronze medals at the 2013 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiads, the Ministry of Education and Training has announced. Viet Nam sent five students to the competition in Singapore, contesting against 500 other rivals from 21 countries and territories in the region. Viet Nam ranked fourth among ...

• WHO warns that world not ready for flu outbreak

  WHO warns that world not ready for flu outbreak GENEVA (VNS)-- The world is unprepared for a massive virus outbreak, the deputy chief of the World Health Organisation has warned, amid fears that H7N9 bird flu striking China could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people. Keiji Fukuda told delegates at a WHO meeting that despite efforts since an outbreak of another form of avian ...

• Spread of hand-foot-mouth disease concerns hospitals

  A doctor examines a child infected with Hand-Foot-Mouth disease in Paediatrics Hospital 2 in HCM City. HFMD is now at its peak, having infected a total of 796 children in HCM City in April, an increase of 127 per cent against the same period last year. -- VNA/VNS Photo Phuong ...

• Japan fund grants $2.5m to help poor vendors

  Japan fund grants $2.5m to help poor vendors HA NOI (VNS)-- About 600 poor street vendors in Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia are set to benefit from financial loans from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, announced the Asian Development Bank yesterday. The total funds for the micro-finance loans offered to household businesses by 2017 amount to US$2.5 million, and beneficiaries will also ...

• Crane accident leads to major power cut

  Crane accident leads to major power cut HCM CITY (VNS)-- A two-hour power failure caused by an incident on the 500kV north-south transmission line hindered road traffic in many southern provinces and HCM City yesterday afternoon. Power supply failed when an operating crane hit the Di Linh-Tan Dinh transmission line at 2.20pm in the new urban area in southern Binh Duong Province, the ...

• MARD allocates funds to shore up crumbling dykes

  MARD allocates funds to shore up crumbling dykes HA NOI (VNS)-- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved a plan to reinforce the inter-provincial dyke system at a cost of VND420 billion (US$20 million) to prepare for floods. Tran Thi Lan Phuong, an expert at the ministry's Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control, said the dykes include the Duong River dyke ...

• City plans five waste treatment plants

  City plans five waste treatment plants HCM CITY (VNS)-- The HCM City People's Committee is now preparing for the implementation of five waste treatment projects. Of these, two plants each with a daily capacity to process 2,000-2,500cu.m of mud will be located in the Da Phuoc Waste Treatment Complex in Binh Chanh District. They will cover 40ha in total. Another project, which will be ...

• Rail project held up by land clearance

  Rail project held up by land clearance HA NOI (VNS)-- Construction of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated urban railway project is behind schedule due to land clearance difficulties, said a project official. The project is scheduled for completion late next year and open for trains in 2015. However, director of the project management board Tran Van Luc said at a press briefing on Tuesday that the ...

• German Red Cross to help VN

  German Red Cross to help VN HA NOI (VNS)-- Red Cross societies of Viet Nam and Germany will co-operate on humanitarian work in the areas of safe water and environmental sanitation, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. As part of a co-operation programme for the 2013-15 period, an agreement was signed yesterday between Viet Nam Red Cross Deputy Chairman and General Secretary ...

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