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  At Pizza 4P’s Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City guests can order one pizza with two different styles, split half and half With the cool weather of Ho Chi Minh City this festive season, we decided to...

  A 12th grade student in north central Vietnam died from a fall from the second floor of her school on Thursday. Ngo Thi Thuy apparently slipped while climbing over the second floor banister at 6:30 a.m., a time allotted for cleaning duties, said her classmates at a high school in Nghe An Province, the...

  Vietnamese health authorities are seeking help from international experts in identifying an unusual skin condition — suspected to be caused by agrochemicals — that has plagued the central province of Quang Ngai since last year, Tuoi Tre reported Thursday. Nguyen Trong Khoa, deputy chief of...

  Police in Hanoi have asked local prosecutors to charge a man with robbing Techcombank’s board chairman of VND500 million (US$23,980), after having threatened to murder him back in 2009. According to police’s findings, in April 2009 Nguyen Hoang Long, 30, texted and called Ho...

Thu Thiem river port opens in Ho Chi Minh City's District 1 on Tuesday High-speed canoes will be put into operation at Ho Chi Minh City’s newly-opened river port to transport passengers from its downtown to more remote districts, Vietnamnet reported Wednesday. The newswire quoted Le Huu Chau, general director of...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (L) welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Damascus, February 7, 2012. The current Syrian drama is far from the usual, clear-cut "good guys vs bad guys" Hollywood shtick. The suspension of the Arab League observers mission; the double veto by Russia and China at the...

Striker Van Quyet celebrates after scoring a goal for hosts Hanoi T&T at Hang Day Stadium in Super League round 4 on Sunday Local players Van Quyet and Tang Tuan each scored a brace to help their clubs score wins in the fourth round of Vietnam’s top-flight Super League Sunday, giving football fans some hope for the...

  Authorities in Hanoi readjusted local working hours on Wednesday, after the first modification drew mixed reactions from the public since it was implemented more than one week ago. In an urgent dispatch sent to local agencies that day, Hanoi’s People’s Committee changed the hour for high school...

  The newly-launched budget airline VietJetAir is offering a special fare of US$28 for flights between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The promotion, which is reduced around five times from the normal price, is applied for flights between March 1 to April 25 this year. Customers have...

  The US Agency for International Development (USAID) donated equipment used to detect tuberculosis to the Vietnam National Tuberculosis Program (VNTP) on Monday, as part of a US$4 million project. Early detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and resistance to the antibiotic drug rifampicin (known as...