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  • VN needs more support to clear bombs mines

    VN needs more support to clear bombs, mines HA NOI (VNS)-- Viet Nam is seeking further international support in its continued attempt to overcome the consequences of post-war bombs and mines that still litter the country. This is among the many actions to be taken under a national programme to deal with post-war ordnance from now until 2015. The plan, which was outlined in a Prime ...

  • Draft decree clamps down on imports of obsolete machinery

    Draft decree clamps down on imports of obsolete machinery HCM CITY (VNS)-- A draft decree prepared by the Ministry of Science and Technology seeks to tighten controls over the import of machinery, equipment and production lines by State-owned enterprises (SOEs). The decree aims to stop the inflow of obsolete technologies into the country, Dau Tu (Vietnam Investment Review) newspaper report ...

  • Alarm raised over power security

    Workers of the Power Transmission Company No4 clear trees along power lines in southern Dong Nai Province. Concerns over the security of the national power grid were raised after a massive blackout in 22 southern provinces on Wednesday. -- VNA/VNS Photo Ngoc ...

  • Residents to drink filtered pond water

    Residents to drink filtered pond water HA NOI (VNS)-- Authorities in Ha Noi plan to install water filters in 100 households in Quoc Oai suburban district who have been forced to use stagnant pond water for daily use due to a shortage of clean water. Deputy director of the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Dao Duy Tam said around 1,000 households in the district's ...

  • Healthy meals to be promoted in HCM City

    Healthy meals to be promoted in HCM City HCM CITY (VNS)-- The "Com ngon cong dong (Good meals for the public)" programme was launched in HCM City yesterday with the aim to provide meals with essential nutrition at reasonable prices for local employees. The meals will be sold in locations where there are a large number of workers such as industrial parks, schools and hospitals at ...

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Paranormal Activity 3

Paranormal Activity 3

As the third part of a triptych that, given the enormous opening weekend at the box office, will surely become a tetraptych by this time next year, Paranormal Activity 3 has even less opportunity than its immediate predecessor to do anything new. Directors Henry ... ...

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  • High-tech Chinese criminals prosecuted

    High-tech Chinese criminals prosecuted HAI PHONG (VNS)-- Police in the northern port city of Hai Phong decided to prosecute a group of four Chinese people allegedly involved in using high-tech devices to illegally appropriate billions of dong on Thursday. The four, aged between 20 and 49, were thought to have used forged credit cards to steal over VND3.9 billion (US$185,000), and ...

  • Students drown while swimming in lake

    Students drown while swimming in lake HA NOI (VNS)-- Two students drowned yesterday while swimming in Cay Cui Lake in Cam Thanh Commune, Cam Lo District in central Quang Tri Province. The victims, a 7th grader and a 4th grader, had been swimming with two friends. The 3-metre-deep Cay Cui Lake is notorious for being a dangerous place where drownings have occurred. On the same day, in the ...

  • ASEAN College forced to stop enrolments

    ASEAN College forced to stop enrolments HCM City (VNS)-- The Ministry of Education and Training has requested the ASEAN College to terminate all of its enrolment and training activities for its pharmacy courses in HCM City and central Nghe An Province. These courses were found to had been being held without permits. Also, the college was forced to refund tuition fees to over 700 ...

  • Hotline for ripped-off tourists to be set up

    Hotline for ripped-off tourists to be set up HA NOI (VNS)-- Hotline numbers will be established for tourists who have been scammed by individuals or organisations, announced Ha Noi's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism yesterday. The line with two phone numbers is set to be available soon and will be open 24 hours a day to quickly handle complaints from tourists and address ...

  • Vietnamese deacon taking priest ritesDeacon Paul Nguyen connects in all languages

    Want to go? • The ordination to the priesthood of Deacon Paul Nguyen will be at 10 a.m. today at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, 292 Munn Road East, Fort Mill. • Father Nguyen will celebrate his first Mass at 4 p.m. today at The Oratory, 434 Charlotte Ave., Rock ...

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