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Field photo of the Huu Nghi border crossing.VnnNews - It was 7pm on the last day of 2008 when Vietnamese and Chinese negotiators announced the completion of the demarcation and marker planting for the Vietnamese-Chinese border, the official end of a marathon negotiation process spanning nearly 20 years. In fact, two issues remained unresolved. Vietnam,...

VNNB summarizes the local media’s accounts that has been triggered by Chinese document submitted to the UN Law of the Sea Commission in support of its territorial claims in the East Sea. China’s U-shaped line in the East Sea. The dotted line – drawn in the East Sea on the Chinese map – is referred to as the...

VietNamNet’s reporters visited the Museum for Air Defense and the Air Force to see Senior Lieutenant-colonel Nguyen Huu Dac, the museum’s director, to learn about Vietnam’s aircrafts.   The planes manufactured by the army. Dac said that 2010 is an important year, when many great events will take place, such as the...

Hard years of making a living by collecting waste didn’t hinder Nguyen Dinh Toan’s strong will, instead it helped him become world taekwondo champion. Nguyen Dinh Toan (middle) and his team. Toan’s father, Nguyen Dinh Hoan, was born by a Vietnamese mother and a Russian father nad then left to be nurtured at the Hanoi...

VnnNews – The new decision by SBV was thought to help promote lending. The results however, have been minimal. Commercial banks still “dodging” the laws One week after the SBV decision took effect, borrowers paying bank debts and hoping to get new loans have been asked to sign contracts on medium loans, even though they...

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Construction ended a vigorous debate when it ruled that business offices cannot be set up in residential apartment buildings. According to Dau tu, the highest percentage of apartments used as business premises in the Hanoi area are found in Trung Hoa-Nhan Chinh, My Dinh and Linh Dam neighborhoods, in...

VnnNews – Salt fields are filled, but workers are not hurrying to harvest it. They know they will not be able to sell salt for much money. Saigon Tiep Thi reporters met Nguyen Xuan Hay, 67, in a salt field. His cooperative assigned Hay and 18 other salt workers three hectares of salt. They must produce 300 tons and pay the cooperative...

With a traditional music style on the verge of extinction, residents in An Thai Village ramp up efforts to protect their sacred art. Xoan singing is performed at holy venus in the communal house which begins with offering incense for gods.VnnNews – With a traditional music style on the verge of extinction, residents in An Thai Village...

While most families in Vietnam are preparing to welcome the lunar New Year (Tet), there are others who are not so lucky. VietNamNet profiles the people unable to celebrate Tet. The Phiac hemlet in Cao Bang province. Story 1: The man who didn’t even know of Tet Ban Gioc waterfall in the northern mountain province of Cao Bang...

VietNamNet’s reporters returned to Khen Len in Bac Kan, where the terrified landslide happened in July 2009 killing nine people, to meet the unfortunate young people orphaned by the event. “Tet is coming. I want to buy new clothes to them but I can’t. Why God didn’t kill me instead of my son and his wife? If I die, who...