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Province and city authorities have started repairs and upgrades on irrigation systems and reservoirs ahead of the wet season. Workers reinforce the Lam River embankment in Duc Tho District in the central province of Ha Tinh, as the central region also lays in food and rescue equipment for the flood season. The National Centre [...]
Several English centres in Ho Chi Minh City leave their victims scratching their heads after they suddenly shut down without paying tuition refunds to students and salary arrears to teachers. The Binh Thanh District branch of Anpha English Center, which is now closed down K.N., a mother of a student at an Anpha English [...]
The 2011-2012 academic year is nearly ending, but second graders still have to learn hard to prepare for the exams to obtain Cambridge English certificate “Starters” level. The small path in front of the Duong Minh Chau Primary School in district 10 of HCM City was full of people, though it was early in [...]
Sergio Aguero was as good as his word on Sunday when he scored the stoppage-time winner against Queens Park Rangers that sealed Manchester City’s first title for 44 years. The Argentine, signed for a reported 45 million euros from Atletico Madrid, vowed at the time he would “fight to the death” to bring the glory [...]
Mr. Ho Van Dieu in Quynh Luu district, the central province of Nghe An, has voluntarily taken students crossing the National Highway 1A for eight years. Eight years ago, Mr. Dieu quit his job as a guard for a local cooperative, with stable income, to do a free-of-charge job: helping students safely cross the road [...]
Instead of covering at least 45 square meters as required by current regulations, apartments with a smaller size will be allowed in the near future, an official at the Construction Ministry has said. Nguyen Trong Ninh, deputy head of the ministry’s Housing and Property Market Management Department, made the statement at yesterday’s forum “Real Estate [...]
Bartenders from the top luxury hotels and bars across the country are competing to get a place in the Global Final of Diageo Reserve World Class 2012 to be organised in Brazil from July 8-12. The global final will gather more than 50 best bartenders from around the world. The competition for selecting the best [...]
HCM City authorities have told local agencies to take measures to protect tourists. One of the measures is sticking phone numbers of traffic inspectors on cabs. Whenever tourists face problems on cabs, they can call and ask for help from traffic inspectors. The HCM City Department of Transport will combine with the police and the [...]
Police have seized 1.2 kilograms of methamphetamine along with materials and byproducts in what they are calling the biggest rock heroin production ring busted in the central province Nghe An. On Friday, they arrested Le Thanh Hai, 41, and his lover Tang Thi Phuong, 38, in an apartment after investigations identified Hai as the leader [...]
Two men were killed and 26 others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a passenger bus on a section of National Highway 1A that runs through Tan Hai commune, Ninh Hai district in the central province of Ninh Thuan at dawn today. The southbound bus collided with the truck hailing from Phu [...]