China raised the drought emergency class Thursday from level two to level one, the highest alert, in response to the worst drought to hit northern China in half a century, according to a State Council meeting. People irrigate the wheat field at Xiaolu Village in Yuzhou, a city in central China’s Henan Province, on Feb. [...]
Fourteen-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps got his first suspension from competition for three months by USA Swimming in Colorado Springs on Thursday. Michael Phelps swims during his heat in the men’s 200m butterfly at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska in this July 1, 2008.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)“This is not a situation where any anti-doping [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Many of the indices are unnecessary, others unfeasible, vague or identical — experts have expressed their views about the draft standards for the development of 5-year-old children. Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet, Headmaster of Kim Lien Kindergarten in Dong Da district in HanoiNguyen Thi Minh Nguyet, Headmaster of Kim Lien Kindergarten in Dong [...]
Lookatvietnam – Vietnam Airlines has assured that passengers can book seats on flights from Hanoi and Danang to HCMC from February 6 to 8, a period in which other airlines say bookings can hardly be made successfully. Tuan said bookings for the flights of the first operational private airline in Vietnam would return to normal [...]
The tra fish material prices have been increasing again, but people dare not farm as they still remember how serious the losses they incurred last year were, when the prices plunged dramatically. Hao, an employee of the Thoi Thuan commune’s people’s committee, in Thot Not district in Can Tho City, showed the road along Bo [...]
Vietnam possesses huge potential for the successful breeding of sturgeon, following an announcement that the first generation of sturgeon to be raised in the country have laid eggs, just three years into a pilot breeding programme. Dr Bui The Anh, a sturgeon expert from the Research Institute of Aquaculture 1 (RIA 1), confirmed that sturgeon [...]
Lookatvietnam – Vietnam has requested all relevant parties to refrain from any activities that may complicate the situation in the East Sea , particularly regarding the Spratly and Paracel archipelagoes. Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung.Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung made the call during a regular press conference in Hanoi on Feb. 5. Dung [...]
Lookatvietnam – Poets around the country are agog with excitement at the upcoming 7th Poem Day on February 9. Lookatvietnam – Poets around the country are agog with excitement at the upcoming 7th Poem Day on February 9.Monk and poet Thich Nhuan Tam has joined hands with the Mekong Art poetry group to put on [...]
Late Japanese social activist Araishi Masahiro (C) still smiles optimistically during his last days in a hospital in Japan for cancer treatment. Araishi Masahiro, who devoted his life to helping disadvantaged Vietnamese through his NGO Bridge Asia Japan, died of cancer last week. He was 64. During his last days at the Tokyo Womenâs Medical [...]
A traveler walks through the mud in search of Vietnamâs southernmost point in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau A group of tourists searches for the Mekong Riverâs lost estuary and seeks Vietnamâs southernmost point. In Vietnam, the Mekong River is called the Cuu Long â“ Nine Dragons â“ because it is said to [...]
