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The Phan Chu Trinh-Tran Hung Dao intersection in Hanoi flooded on July 20 after heavy early morning rains. Hanoi needs more money to save itself from floods like those that killed 20 people and caused trillions of dong worth of damage last year. The rainy season in the capital city usually starts in August and [...]
Roasted grasshoppers is a popular cuisine among urban drinkers. A kilo of grasshoppers is priced between 25,000-30,000. Catching grasshoppers is now a lucrative job for many farmers in My Duc district, Hanoi. My Duc people sell around 2-3 tonnes of grasshoppers to restaurants in Hanoi and neighbouring provinces a day. The demand for this insect [...]
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai agreed to apply economic solutions to curb traffic jams in Hanoi and HCM City at a meeting on July 28. The Deputy PM agreed with Hanoi and HCM City’s solutions to curb traffics jams and emphasised the need to research, design and apply economic methods to restrict the volume [...]
At least 12 Vietnamese documentary filmmakers will be financed by Discovery channel to produce documentaries about urbanisation in Vietnam. “Look to Vietnam” is a documentary filmmaking contest organised by Discovery Asia channel for Vietnamese filmmakers. Contestants will have a hand in drafting the contents of a 30-minute documentary about urbanisation in Vietnam. Discovery will choose [...]
Farmers growing clean vegetables on a farm in Hai Phong. In Vietnam, only around 8 percent of vegetable farms grow clean vegetables, with the rest plagued by chemical and other contamination. Vegetables are grown on 722,000 hectares in Vietnam but only 8-8.5 percent has “clean” vegetables, the Cultivation Department officials told a conference on producing [...]
The Road No. 9 Cemetery in Quang Tri province. A festival and cultural exchange entitled “War Memories and a Desire for Peace” will be held in the central province of Quang Tri from July 24-26 to mark the 62nd anniversary of the Day for War Invalids and Martyrs (July 27). Held by the General Department [...]
Ha Noi and northern provinces have had their biggest falls for the year Ha Noi yesterday, July 13, suffered from the heaviest rains so far this year, more than 130mm, due to weakened tropical storm Soudeler, according to the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Centre. Heavy downpour submerges a road on the Phan Boi Chau-Ly Thuong Kiet intersection. [...]
Another tropical depression entered the western part of the South China Sea late on July 13, with winds up to 60 kilometers per hour, reports the Central Hydrometeorology Forecast Centre (CHFC). Tropical Storm number 4 (Soudeler) has passed through the northern Vietnam area on July 12-13, after drenching the Red River Delta with up to [...]
HCM City Power Company plans to lay the entire medium-voltage cable network and half of the low-voltage network in District 1 and District 3 under ground by 2015. In other districts, they will go beneath the ground only along certain streets. Tang Nai Tong, deputy director of the company, said, “Telecom cables should not be [...]
A press briefing will be held by the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion at the Hanoi Opera House on April 5 to call for public blood donations nationwide on the occasion of Volunteer Blood Donation Day on April 7. The institute will organize blood donation programs and expects to collect 610,000 units of [...]