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The HCM City administration is determined to stop flooding at 10 of 31 spots in the city by the end of the year. Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe canal was dredged by the HCM City Steering Centre for Anti-flooding Programme last November. Last year the city cleared 39 out of 70 flooding spots through [...]
Three local universities have publicly protested a ban on their July enrollment that was recently enacted by the Ministry of Education and Training, which explained they had not met its requirements for facilities and student-lecturer ratios. Academic affairs officers at the HCMC-based Van Hien University are checking out applications in this photo illustration. Nguyen Tac [...]
American plastic surgeon McKay McKinnon performed a surgery on Thach Thi Sanh Ly, whose whole body is covered in tumors at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh on Saturday. Ly, 35 from Tran De, Soc Trang suffers from neurofibromatosis, the same disease with Duy Hai and My Dung’s, two patients whose operations were carried [...]
Colonel Nguyen Nhu Tuan, director of Thai Nguyen Province’s Police Department, suspected an underground gang was the culprit of the explosion that occurred in his house yesterday. The official, who was appointed to the post a few months ago, said the blast might have been caused by some criminal group to revenge his strong measures [...]
The Government in the last regular cabinet meeting of 2011 has urged its members to join forces to curb inflation and stabilize macro economy this year. Vietnam gained initial results from implementing the austerity package contained in Resolution No. 11 last year, with the consumer price index (CPI) growth rate slowing down from the second [...]
Training courses offered by pedagogy universities to existing primary-school teachers have shown good results, with improved quality of teaching and management, according to an education official. First-grade students in their class at Truong Quyen Primary School in HCM City’s District 3 Hoang Truong Giang, vice head of the HCM City University of Pedagogy’s Primary [...]
The charitable agency is offering free surgeries to children suffering from childhood facial deformities in Hanoi from December 5-9 and in Ho Chi Minh City from December 12-16. No patients suffering from malnutrition, coughing, fever, heart diseases, diabetes will be eligible for the service.For cleft lips operations, only children of at least 18 months old [...]
20- year old Le Huynh Thuy Ngan has been named as Vietnam’s representative on the Miss Tourism Queen International 2011 pageant’s official website. Ngan stands 1.72m tall and possesses the vital statistics of 90-60-89. She is pursuing an English Major at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages – Information Technology. In 2009, [...]
The free screening of 17 movies taking part in the 17th Vietnam Film Festival to be held next week in Phu Yen Province concluded Thursday in Hanoi. A considerable number of audiences showed up to see Vietnam’s best movies in the past 2 years. These include Huu Muoi’s “Mui co chay” (The Smell of Burnt [...]
A video clip in YouTube shows a tiger in Thu Le Zoological Park in Hanoi trying to climb over a 10m high iron fence, causing a widespread panic among observers. Nguyen Hoang Giang, a student in Hanoi, said he filmed the extraordinary scene at 4pm on November 12 at Thu Le Park located in Ba [...]