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The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2011, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Tuesday. Photo: Internet Total radioactive forcing, or the warming effect on the climate, of all long-lived greenhouse gases was the carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent of 473 parts per million last year, a 30 percent [...]
A female student in Hanoi has been murdered after refusing to love a man who had showed his interest in her. Tran Thi Huyen Trang from Hoang Hoa District in northern province of Thanh Hoa was choked to death by Vu Van Thanh from the same province. The 19-year-old Trang is a student of Hanoi [...]
The central province of Quang Nam on November 21 launched a US-backed project worth US$400,000, to increase disaster-prone coastal communities’ resilience to natural hazards, according to the US Embassy in Vietnam. In the next two years, the Green Shield project will directly benefit 48,000 local people in 12,000 households in central Quang Nam and Binh [...]
“It was a shame when I was required to sign a document they presented in front of my students,” T., a literature teacher in Hanoi, complained. School officials, local education board inspectors, and even police officers had ‘caught’ her in the act of running an after-school class at home without a license. T. is just [...]
The price of a ticket to enter the ancient town of Hoi An was increased by 30% on November 1, as announced by Quang Nam province’s authorities. According to the new regulation, which officials say will secure all the relics and vestiges, the price is VND120.000 (US5.76)/ 6 visited relics, replacing the former price of [...]
A Vietnamese-flagged cargo ship sank off the coast of Sri Lanka, leaving four crew members missing, the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (Vietnam MRCC) announced Tuesday. The Saigon Queen, owned by the Saigon Shipping Joint Stock Company (SSC), was carrying timber from Myanmar to India with 22 crew members onboard when it sank [...]
PARCSpring is developed by CapitaValue Homes Limited in collaboration with its local partner Khang Dien. The main contractor is the reputed Construction Joint Stock Company No.1 (COFICO). While the gloominess in the property market is forcing many developers to delay the construction of their projects, CapitaValue Homes has kept the construction of PARCSpring on schedule. [...]
In a baffling incident, a man was detained this morning after hiding for 4 hours inside a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. He apparently did nothing wrong other than holding two hammers and locking himself in his room. It occurred at Hoang Nam Huong Hotel on Phan Van Tri street, Go Vap district. [...]
iPhones and iPads at primary schools If someone visits the Doan Thi Diem Primary School when the schoolboys and schoolgirls just finish their lessons, he would see a lot of students with mobile phones in hands. Some of the students call their parents to inform that the school hours finish. Others urge parents [...]
The serious poaching which has not been eased over the last many years has led to the sharp fall of the number of elephant individuals in Vietnam, from 1500-2000 in 1990s to tens of elephants now. Three years ago, FFI, an international flora and fauna conservation organization, gave the warning that the then 150 elephant [...]