http://www.lookatvietnam.com Vietnam News - Update 24/7 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:30:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dong Thap Province’s 100-year-old flower village offers travelers history, horticultural wonders, and peace and quiet Farmers in Sa Dec Flower Village take care of their daisies. Driving into Sa Dec, you can see what looks like endless rows of potted flowers on wooden racks nearby the rice fields.As the Tet ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/flowers-on-the-water.html Sam Duc Xuong (1st, L), former principal of Viet Vinh High School in Ha Giang Province An appeal court in northern Vietnam has annulled the earlier verdict against a school principal found guilty of ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/court-annuls-statutory-rape-case-verdicts.html The Ministry of Transport has announced it will temporarily open a major expressway through Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of Long An and Tien Giang in the Mekong Delta from February 3 ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/southern-expressway-opens-temporarily-for-cars.html The chief coach and the coaching assistant of Viettel’s young football team have been fined for insulting referees at a National U19 Football Tournament.LookAtVietnam - The chief coach and the coaching assistant of Viettel’s young football team, both of which are former stars of the national squad, have been fined ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/young-coach-fined-for-outraging-referees.html Hanoi will choose 1,000 objects to bury with a message for future generations so that people in 1,000 years will know more about their ancestors.The Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism introduced the container that would keep the 1000 items at a press conference in Hanoi last week. These ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/1000-items-to-be-buried-in-a-hanoi-time-capsule.html Experts said that the one-tone shark netted by a Phu Yen province’s fisherman is not the cruel fish that attacked ten people in Quy Nhon. Vietnamese province puts bounty on “shark” after 10 recent attacksVietnamese fisherman hunting “ten million dong shark”One-tonne shark netted near shark attack beach Phan Trong Ho, director ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/caught-shark-not-attack-sea-bathers-in-quy-nhon.html LookAtVietnam - To confront the rise in crimes against traffic police in Hanoi, the capital city’s Traffic Police Department has equipped its staff with tear-gas, electric rods and handcuffs during the lunar New Year festival. Department Chief, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duy Ngoc explained that the volume of travelers and vehicles ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/capital-traffic-policemen-equipped-with-tear-gas-guns.html China’s railway network has transported 5.03 million passengers as of Feb. 6, the eighth day of the country’s annual Spring Festival transport peak lasting from Jan. 30 to March 10 Passengers enter the railway station under a shelter against the rain in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, Feb. 7, 2010. In ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/chinas-railways-send-5-mil-passengers-by-feb6.html Five people are known dead and at least 12 injured in a deadly explosion occurred Sunday at a power plant in Middletown, Connecticut State of the United States.Police seal off the road to the blast site at the Kleen Energy plant in Middletown, Connecticut, the United States, Feb. 7, 2010. ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/five-killed-12-injured-in-explosion-at-us-power-plant-explosion.html 2009 was considered a successful year for Vietnam’s shooting as it topped the 33rd Southeast Asian Shooting Championship and the 25th Southeast Asian Games’ shooting event.Gunman Nguyen Manh Tuong.LookAtVietnam - 2009 was considered a successful year for Vietnam’s shooting as it topped the 33rd Southeast Asian Shooting Championship (SEASA) with 20 gold ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/a-successful-year-for-vietnamese-shooting.html “Attending National Assembly sessions is a bit stressful because we sit for days, but actually, I’m more stressed on my ‘normal’ days,” says Deputy Pham Quoc Anh in an interview with VietNamNet.   Pham Quoc Anh was born in April 11 1940 in the northern province of Hung Yen. He lives in ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/top-lawyer-also-a-legislator-plays-key-role-in-drafting-bills.html The first ever national fruit festival will be held in Tien Giang province from April 19 to 24, authorities from the Mekong Delta province told the media in HCM City last week.LookAtVietnam - The first ever national fruit festival will be held in southern Tien Giang province from April 19 ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/tien-giang-festival-to-promote-fruit.html President Nguyen Minh Triet has highlighted Vietnam’s important achievements in 2009, attributing them to the efforts by all Vietnamese people, including overseas Vietnamese.LookAtVietnam - President Nguyen Minh Triet has highlighted Vietnam’s important achievements in 2009, attributing them to the strong resolve and constant efforts by all Vietnamese people, including those ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/president-praises-overseas-vietnamese-contributions-to-homeland.html Rice blast disease has affected the winter-spring crops in many southern provinces, warned the Southern Steering Committee for Pestilent Insects Fighting and Prevention. LookAtVietnam - Rice blast disease has affected the winter-spring crops in many provinces, including Kien Giang, Long An, Dong Thap, Vinh Long, An Giang, Soc Trang and ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/disease-insects-attack-mekong-delta-crop.html Vietnam’s 15-year-old tennis prodigy Nguyen Hoang Thien and Vietnamese Austrian Nguyen Matthaeus won the boys’ doubles championship at the ITF Oman Open 2010 in Muscat.  LookAtVietnam - Vietnam’s 15-year-old tennis prodigy Nguyen Hoang Thien and Vietnamese Austrian Nguyen Matthaeus won the boys’ doubles championship at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/thien-wins-boys-doubles-title-in-oman.html A big question mark still hangs over the long-delayed Ca Na steel complex in Ninh Thuan. Malaysian investor Lion Group has failed to submit project development plan to meet a province’s deadline.  LookAtVietnam - A big question mark still hangs over the long-delayed Ca Na steel complex in southern Ninh ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/project-is-in-a-pickle.html  The thick fragrance of joss-sticks is always hanging in the air in Doc La village, Hung Yen province.LookAtVietnam - The thick fragrance of joss-sticks is always hanging in the air in Doc La village, Hung Yen province. The custom of burning incense is an indispensable feature of the spiritual lives of ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/the-scent-of-incense.html Fishermen in the central province of Quang Ngai have complained that a Chinese boat robbed and mistreated them as they were fishing off the Hoang Sa (Paracel) islands early this week, a local newswire reported Sunday. According to the complaint submitted to Ly Son District’s Coast Guard Headquarters by fisherman ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/vietnamese-boat-attacked-robbed-by-chinese.html A fisherman caught a white shark weighing over one ton while he was fishing in inshore waters off the coast of Phu Yen Province in the central region on Thursday. ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/one-ton-plus-shark-caught-off-central-vietnam.html January's auto sales in Vietnam soared 76 percent from the same month a year ago to 6,961 units, accelerating from an annual rise of 59 percent in December, an industry report said Friday. ... http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2010/02/vietnam-jan-auto-sales-soar-76-pct-year-on-year-industry.html