Last updated: Saturday, September 4, 2010
In 1976, the National Assembly unanimously decided to rename Saigon-Cholon-Gia Dinh as Ho Chi Minh City.
The first settlers
Ben Thanh market.
In his book of literary works about the southern land in the 17th century when the first Vietnamese settlers arrived, Le Quy Don wrote: “From the Can Gio Estuary, the Soai Rap, Tieu...
Last updated: Thursday, August 19, 2010
National Archive seeks international experience; Artefacts found in the excavations; Hoi An- Japan Festival 2010 to open this weekend; Vietnam to host Int’l Exhibition for Young Inventors
Seminars honours Vietnamese artists-martyrs
From left to right: Poet Le Anh Xuan, writer Nguyen Thu and musician Hoang Viet
A...
Last updated: Saturday, July 24, 2010
The period before Western capitalists’ penetration
With the natural features as presented in the part “Nature”, cultivation was early developed. Tropical climate, which is perennially hot and wet with high rainfall and plenty of sunlight in many months of a year are favorable conditions for agricultural development....
Last updated: Monday, June 7, 2010
VnnNews – Experts believe the prices of most goods used to calculate the consumer price index (CPI) will remain stable in June.
VnnNews – Experts believe the prices of most goods used to calculate the consumer price index (CPI) will remain stable in June.
2010 CPI hard to stay at 7%: experts
CPI unexpectedly low in...
Last updated: Thursday, April 1, 2010
The highest temperatures of summer 2010 will exceed 40 degrees, predicted National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre Deputy Director Nguyen Lan Chau.
Hanoi’s Red River becomes exhausted. “It is highly possible that April and May will have fiercely sunny spells in the north and central regions,” Chau noted. Vietnam’s...
Last updated: Friday, March 12, 2010
VnnNews – Travel firms offer a lot of low cost tours under tourism promotion programmes, but they come with strings attached.
The director of a travel firm in the north told VietNamNet that at the Yen Tu and Huong Pagodas, he heard a lot of people speaking with a southern accent. Trip packages multiply Discounted air tickets...
Last updated: Monday, March 8, 2010
Drought and unusually high temperatures are now pervasive throughout Vietnam. A senior expert told Tuoi Tre that the proximate cause is El Ninõ.
Canals and streams are drying up. n the photo, Kenh Cha Va (Soc Trang 0)The rainy season ended very early last year. There was little rain at the end of July and from August onward, hardly...
Last updated: Sunday, February 7, 2010
Terrified residents wait for war-time bomb to be defused; 92 kilograms of gold seized in southern Vietnam; Eight nabbed in sand mining murder case; Hanoi tower claims yet another life
Early cherry blossoms mean fewer profits for northern gardeners Recent hot weather has distressed cherry blossom farmers in flower villages...
Last updated: Friday, September 18, 2009
VnnNews – Hoang Thi Minh Hong, the first Vietnamese women to visit the North Pole in 1997, will pay a second visit to the Arctic this November.
Hoang Thi Minh Hong in the North Pole in 1997.
Minh Hong is among 15 former members of exploration groups of 2041, a North Pole protection orgnisation, who have been to the North...
