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  • Dead pig transport a concern in south

    Dead pig transport a concern in south HCM CITY (VNS)-- The city has confiscated tonnes of dead pigs that have been transported with no quarantine certificates, HCM City veterinary officials have said. On May 9, the Thu Duc Animal Quarantine Station in HCM City, in cooperation with traffic police, seized more than one tonne of dead pigs being transported from Dong Nai Province to the city. ...

  • Mekong Delta to build more kindies

    Mekong Delta to build more kindies HCM CITY (VNS)-- Cities and provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have mobilised funds to build more kindergartens as they strive to eliminate old, dilapidated classrooms. More than 4,000 kindergarten classes are in borrowed space in primary schools or basic structures built on local people's land, according to statistics released by education ...

  • Heat forecast to subside in north

    Heat forecast to subside in north HA NOI (VNS)-- Hot weather will ease in northern provinces from today, according to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre. The temperature will range from 24-34 degrees Celsius during the day. However, the mild weather would last for just one to two days before the temperature increases again, said centre deputy director Le Thanh Hai. -- ...

  • Four crewmen rescued over the weekend

    Four crewmen rescued over the weekend HA NOI (VNS)-- Three crewmen from a sand-carrying vessel sunk by huge waves off the coast of Hai Phong City's Cat Ba District on Sunday have been rescued, according to the National Search and Rescue Committee. Six local border guards were dispatched to take the victims to the shore. In another incident, four fishermen were left adrift when their ...

  • Trafficked victims get new lease on life

    Blue Dragon Foundation's founder Michael Brosowski speaks to kids at a football match. Since 2006, the foundation has rescued 278 trafficked children. -- Photo coutersy of Blue Dragon ...

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [DVD]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [DVD]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best of the Star Trek film series, a gloriously operatic revenge tale full of sound and fury, violence and vengeance, humor and empathy. It followed three years after Robert Wise's elegant, but somewhat tedious Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Wrath of Khan couldn't have been any different. Taut, tense, and deliciously ov ... ...

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  • Tourism police to protect foreigners

    A street vendor tries to force a foreign tourist to buy sourvenir in Ha Noi. The city authorities are considering setting up a tourism police force to protect tourists from being overcharged and harrashed by street vendors. -- VNS Photo Doan ...

  • Vietnam rice stocks arrive in Cebu

    ABOUT 370,000 bags of imported Vietnam rice will be delivered to Cebu City’s port area for Central and Eastern Visayas, the regional National Food Authority (NFA) office said yesterday. The 370,000 bags of Vietnam rice were part of the 54,000 metric tons or roughly 1.8 million bags of rice bought by the national government for the two regions, regional NFA information officer Lucy Rosales ...

  • Gunman sought after man killed inside Vietnamese restaurant

    HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Authorities are searching for a killer responsible for a shockingly bold crime -- a murder in the middle of a restaurant. It happened Saturday inside a Vietnamese restaurant on Veterans Memorial ...

  • Duped Sold into Prostitution then Rescued A Vietnamese Girl and the Man Who Saved Her

    Reporter Phillip Martin has been investigating human trafficking in various parts of the world and in Vietnam he found a glimmer of hope, as a young woman who was kidnapped and sold to a brothel in China, returns to her ...

  • Starbucks Is Open for Business in Vietnam

    opened up shop in Ho Chi Minh in February, and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said that sales have exceeded expectations so far. Still, Vietnam may prove a challenge for the hegemonic coffee company because of the country's rich coffee culture that dates back at least a ...

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