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The bumper litchi harvest in Luc Ngan District of the northern Bac Giang Province this year does not mean profits to farmers as prices have slumped due to farmers’ heavy dependence on Chinese traders for output. Litchi nuts in Luc Ngan now fetch only VND5,000 a kg, a price which Le Thi Lieu, a farmer [...]
The Cultivation Department laid out its plans, at a conference hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday, to increase the rice output for the coming autumn-winter crop in the Mekong Delta Region of Vietnam. Harvesting rice in the Mekong Delta (Photo: SGGP) The department is targeting 24.5 million tons this year, an [...]
Admiring the bay from the Hai Van Pass, going fishing in the bay or swimming in the blue water are among pleasures of tourists at the Lang Co Bay in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue, one of the most beautiful bays in the world. Lying between Da Nang and Hue cities, Lang [...]
The internationally famous ‘ceramic road’ running along the Red River in Hanoi has now begun to show signs of damage and decay. Volunteers clean up the ceramic road Journalist and painter Nguyen Thu Thuy, who initiated the project, says that uncertain weather conditions during both summer and winter could be one of the reasons that [...]
The Nha Trang Sea Festival 2011, ‘Nha Trang – The Sea Rendezvous,’ ended with colourful art performances in April 2 Square in Nha Trang city on June 15. The exciting festive atmosphere and the variety of programmes attracted many domestic and international tourists. The festival also gave a good impression of Nha Trang as [...]
Major musical talents from three continents: American Idol 2008 David Cook, X-Factor 2008 winner from the UK Alexandra Burke, and Top 8 Australian Idol Vietnamese-Australian Thanh Bui, are now in Hanoi preparing for their first ever performances at the H-Artistry concert on June 16 at Quan Ngua Gymnasium. Following the success of the previous programmers, [...]
Seven people were killed and five others injured, on Friday evening, in a trio of highway accidents on a section of the National Highway 1A in the northern Vietnamese province of Ha Tinh. The first accident occurred at around 9 p.m. when a packed seven-seater plunged off a cliff near a highway bypass in Ha [...]
Speaking at a press conference in Ha Noi yesterday, Nguyen Duc Kien, vice chairman of the 12th National Assembly and a member of the National Election Council, said that 61,965,651 voters, accounting for 99.51 per cent of eligible voters, attended polls to elect representatives to the National Assembly and local People’s Councils. “The high turnout [...]
A delegation of the Commission for Organisation of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) is paying an official working visit to Laos from June 4-8. The delegation, headed by the commission’s head To Huy Rua, held talk with their counterparts from the Organisation Commission of the Lao People’s Revolution Party (LPRP) Central Committee. [...]
A tractor-trailer crashed into a motorcycle on National Highway 2A in Phu Ho Commune in Phu Tho northern province at 1:30 pm Thursday, leaving one woman dead and injuring another and lanes of the highway remain closed, local sources said. Eyewitnesses said the trailer-tractor truck’s driver, who was driving fast, encroached the highway lane before [...]