|
Millions of university students coming to big cities to study say their biggest expense is on accommodation, which is so much beyond their capacity that most of them who come from poor families resign themselves to renting dilapidated and slum-like rooms. Dormitory accommodation is a dream for students from the rural areas With rentals having [...]
he northeastern province of Ha Giang lures tourists from all over with its steep rock ascents hidden in blankets of clouds. In spring and autumn, buckwheat flowers bloom all over the valleys within the karst plateau. Magnificent terraced rice fields in Hoang Su Phi District in Ha Giang. Yet the soul of the land remains [...]
A couple from the Ruc ethnic minority group who have lived in a cave for generations decided to abandon their government-built homes and return to their old domiciles because they found it easier to find food there. Inside of one cave The couple, Cao Thi Lai and Cao Thang, lived in a home along with [...]
Plan International (Plan), an international humanitarian organisation, will provide USD2.5 million in aid to the central province of Quang Ngai during the period 2013-2016. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was inked on August 20 by Dinh Thi Loan, Vice Chairwoman of the Quang Ngai People’s Committee and Glenn Gibeny, Plan Country Director in [...]
Depositors have been sending their money back to ACB after a wave of withdrawals following the arrest of Nguyen Duc Kien, the bank’s co-founder, early this week, said ACB deputy CEO Nguyen Thanh Toai Friday. On August 22, customers withdrew a massive VND5 trillion(over US$240 million) from ACB after Kien was arrested for illegal trading in his [...]
On August 3, the National Academy of Music in Vietnam announced its decision to take disciplinary action against two singers Anh Tho and Trong Tan, for failing to meet their commitment to perform in Laos, to celebrate the Year of Unity and the signing of the Friendship Treaty between Vietnam and Laos. Artists Anh Tho [...]
Five people, including a Chinese national, got jail terms of up to 12 years for violating fire safety principles at an unlicensed textile factory in the northern city of Hai Phong after a fire killed 13 people last year. The Hai Phong People’s Court also ordered the defendants to pay over VND4.4 billion (US$208,800) in [...]
Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc, a hotel sales manager in Hanoi, is among Vietnamese buyers being lured back to the property market by lower interest rates and cheaper homes. “Until recently I didn’t have any strong intention to buy a house,” says Ngoc, who borrowed four billion dong ($192,000) to purchase a three-story property about 1 [...]
More and more one stop shops have been set up in big cities since the day the first shop of this kind appeared on the market one year ago. Retailers nowadays tend to set up shopping centers and shops with large areas which can offer a multitude of products and services to customers. The [...]
At least six people died, 18 were missing and 50,000 ordered to evacuate as the heaviest rainfall on record pounded the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu, officials and reports said Thursday. Floodwaters engulf a river at Kumamoto city Emergency workers in Kumamoto prefecture responded to multiple reports of mudslides swallowing houses and people being trapped, [...]