January 11, 2012
Many rice farmers work under the mistaken impression that regular insecticide applications are necessary to attain high yields. However, decades of research by scientists around the world has shown that healthy and productive rice crops can be produced with little or no insecticide applications in most years. Nonetheless, farmers continue to apply dangerous chemicals [...]
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January 9, 2012
Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested one Vietnamese and three Malaysian men for allegedly using fake ATM cards to withdraw money from local banks. They are believed to be members of a transnational crime ring. The first arrest, of Co Kim Thach, a 39-year-old resident of District 5, was made on December 30, [...]
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November 29, 2011
Birds looking for fish at Xuan Thuy National Park in the northern province of Nam Dinh Grey skies. It had been raining for a few days and the skies were still cloudy. Grey skies are not traditionally associated with uplifting beauty, but we were gazing at a scene that rested very easy on the [...]
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August 22, 2011
Vietnam has seven mobile network operators with more than 120 million subscribers The Ministry of Information and Communications is finalizing a plan to allow mobile phone users to switch to a different network without having to change their numbers, news website VnExpress reported Saturday. The plan has been created based on trends in other countries [...]
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June 1, 2011
Phone shops frequently recycle the personal information of one person to register multiple phone numbers Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications is drafting regulations that will ban the resale of registered sim cards, an official said. The new rule is an attempt to restore order on the telecom market and make sure all mobile phone numbers, especially [...]
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April 27, 2011
Investigators from the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications Tuesday busted a Hanoi-based company spamming thousands of mobile phones with advertisements. Â During the raid, conducted in cooperation with Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team, investigators found that EMOBI Joint-stock Company in Dong Da District used software to send fortune-telling and gambling related spam messages [...]
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April 1, 2011
Adult elephants line up before starting their race, held for the first time in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak this month An old elephant waits, incomplete, in the shade of a big tamarind tree outside Yok Don National Park. The giant beast’s two tusks have been cut off by its owner to dissuade [...]
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November 29, 2010
Police in the northern city of Hai Phong have arrested eight people for allegedly kidnapping a young man earlier this month, VnExpress reported Saturday.  Authorities say that on August 8, Nguyen Tu Sinh, 22, flew from the United Arab Emirates to Hanoi. After landing at the Noi Bai Airport, Sinh was approached by [...]
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February 7, 2010
Vietnamobile unveils new deal; VNPT signs infrastructure deal; Mobiphone’s Q-teen wins award Vietnamobile unveils new deal Marking a first in Viet Nam, customers can now enjoy inter-network calls at almost the same price as same-carrier ones. Freedom to chat with three chosen mobile numbers at only VND990/minute.With their commitment to bringing innovative and high-value call [...]
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February 2, 2010
Viettel and VinaPhone has cut off services to over 50,000 subscribers who don’t register their numbers. However, they can register and get back their numbers within 30 days, as of February 1. MobiFone is the only mobile network that has completed this task. It said that during the one month extension for information registration, [...]
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