Vietnam News

The Global Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction presented the silver award, worth US$200,000, to architects of a low-impact green field university campus July 3. The architecture university, in the suburb Can Tho City, was designed by Japanese architects Kazuhiro Kojima and Daisuke Sanuki and a Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia.

A tropical depression brewing over the East Sea will bring heavy downpours to the Central Highlands and southern region of Vietnam today, a meteorological expert said Friday.

Three days of flash floods have killed at least 20 people, left 18 missing and damaged many homes and roads in northern Vietnam, the country's Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said Monday.

Vietnam and Thailand have agreed to promote bilateral friendship and all-round cooperation, especially in economics, investment, trade, culture, education-training, health care, science-technology and tourism.

Four men were killed while sawing a 250-kilogram bomb to extract explosives and metal scraps to sell in Vietnam, a local official said Thursday.

The conference, with the theme of "For a community of solidarity and strength, contributing to national construction", will expect the participation of about 1,000 delegates, including 650 overseas Vietnamese, who represent Vietnamese communities in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide.

Vietnam detected 13 new influenza A cases on July 7 including the first one in Mekong Deltaa s Hau Giang Province, raising the countrya s tally to 248 with no deaths.

" The noted World Information Technology Forum, or WITFOR 2009, will be held for the first time in Vietnam this August.

In the last three weeks, three members of the Democratic Party of Vietnam have been arrested for promoting the strengthening of democracy and human rights for the people of Vietnam.

The first two Americans to lose their lives during the Vietnam War are being honored.

The women at Binh Tan District police office in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday after they were found parading in front of five South Korean men Police in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday busted an illegal marriage brokerage that was parading 51 women in front of five potential South Korean husbands at a private house in Binh Tan District.

WASHINGTON - An interesting conversation may be taking place in the beyond. Envision former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a brilliant, tormented architect of the Vietnam War, being greeted by a group of souls who died so very, very young in that war.

Rescue workers clear mud from a road which provides access between Pac Nam District and neighbouring areas in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked Switzerland to provide assistance in human resource development, especially in vocational training and university faculty.

Vietnamese authorities arrested two pro-democracy campaigners on suspicion of attempting to overthrow the communist government, state media reported Tuesday.

At least 31 people have died and seven others are missing as flash floods and landslides continued to leave a trail of ruin in six mountainous northern provinces, the government reported Monday.

Hanoi, Jul 6 Heavy rains and flooding rivers have caused the death of 16 people and 15 others are missing in northern Vietnamese provinces, official sources reported on Monday.

Floods and landslides in northern Vietnam have killed at least 30 people over the weekend, television reports say.

Hanoi, Vietnam, Jul 3, 2009 / 07:33 pm .- On Wednesday 37 members of the U.S. Senate called on President Nguyen Minh Triet to release Fr.

The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee wrapped up its tenth meeting in Hanoi on July 4 after working for a week, agreeing to hold the 11th National Party Congress in the first half of January, 2011.