• ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 20/5

    19/05/2011 11:00

    Famous Belgian writer joins Vietnam comics festival The renowned Belgian comics writer Stephen Desberg will join his Vietnamese colleagues in this year’s Comics Festival, which will take place in Hanoi from May 30 to...

  • Inventory of “treasures”

    18/05/2011 11:00

    While the Cultural Heritage Agency is combining with local governments to make an inventory of intangible cultural heritages in the country (which will finish in October 2011), the Vietnam Folk Culture and Art Association has...

  • Vietnam plans to end dollarization completely by 2013

    18/05/2011 11:00

    Vietnam is following a process on easing the dollarization and it hopes the dollarization would be stopped by the end of 2013, according to Dr Le Xuan Nghia, Deputy Chair of the National Finance Supervision Council. These...

  • Pepper growers add spice to pricing tactics

    18/05/2011 11:00

    VietNamNet Bridge - Many pepper farmers have taken advantage of the internet to ensure quick access to world pepper prices and other useful market information. Farmers who improved the way they use up-to-date market information...

  • HCMC facilitates ID issuance to intellectually disabled 

    18/05/2011 11:00

    Granting identification to people with Down’s syndrome and the intellectually disabled will be facilitated from now on, an official who is in charge of IDs in Ho Chi Minh City has told Thanh Nien ....

  • Flash floods devastate Lao Cai province

    16/05/2011 11:00

    VietNamNet Bridge - Heavy rains on May 12-13 triggered flash floods in the mountainous provinces of Yen Bai, Phu Tho, Tuyen Quang and Lao Cai which was the hardest hit. People in Lao Cai Province cleaning up their homes...

  • Film director returns to Universal Steps reality show

    16/05/2011 11:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Director Nguyen Quang Dung has replaced songwriter Tran Tien as a judge of the Vietnam Television’s (VTV) Universal Steps third show last night, May 15. Film director Nguyen Quang Dung. Dung...

  • Falling trees in Hanoi

    16/05/2011 11:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Many old trees in Hanoi ’s streets are leaning and about to collapse. Their roots have burst and they can fall anytime. On May 13, two big trees fell and crushed a state car. On May, two...

  • Tons of unsafe meat sold in HCM City

    16/05/2011 11:00

    Around 40 tons of meat which is not quarantined is consumed in HCM City a day, said the HCM City Veterinary Bureau.

  • ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 17/5

    16/05/2011 11:00

    Lior Shambadal to wield baton in Hanoi Israeli conductor Lior Shambadal will lead the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert at the Hanoi Opera House on May 24. Shambadal,...