Women Get Paid to Lift and Weigh Pigs at Pig Market

Article from: Tuoi Tre News Ba Ren, the largest pig market in the central Quang Nam Province, is also known for a unique job some women there do: they hold pigs and climb on a scale to weigh them. The women, most of them old, are always there, regardless of the weather which can be [...] Read More »

Nine Wedding Guests Dead After Train Crash

Article from: Thanh Nien Daily At least nine wedding guests in Vietnam died Wednesday when a train collided with their minibus, state media reports said. The 15-seat bus was returning to the northern province of Thai Nguyen when it tried to cross a suburban Hanoi railway line as the train approached, the reports said. VNExpress and [...] Read More »

Vietnam Must Better Prepare for Earthquakes

Article from: Việt Nam News Nation must prepare for earthquakes. HA NOI — Viet Nam must better prepare for earthquakes, a conference in Ha Noi heard yesterday. According to scientists at the event organised by the Institute of Geology, the country could be severely affected by earthquakes and tsunamis. Geophysics Institute associate professor Cao Dinh Trieu, who [...] Read More »

Hydropower Reservoir Water Levels Alarmingly Low: EVN

Article from: Dti News State utility Electricity of Vietnam, known as EVN, warned the water level at most hydropower reservoirs nationwide were dramatically low, triggering a fear of a worse power shortage this year. Le Van Quang, deputy director of the Da Nhim – Ham Thuan – Da Mi Hydropower Company, said “the output of [...] Read More »

Four Jailed for Trafficking Women to China

Article from: TuoiTre The southern Tay Ninh province People’s Court yesterday announced sentences ranging from 4 to 10 years imprisonment to four people for trafficking women to China. * They sold poor women to Chinese men as wives * Many Chinese suitors suffer from physical deformities * At least 14 have been trafficked The convicted [...] Read More »

Vietnam Saves 400,000kWh for Earth Hour 2011

Article from: VOV News Lights off across Vietnam in response to Earth Hour (VOV) – Thirty cities and provinces in Vietnam took part in the ‘Earth Hour’ environmental event from 8.30pm to 9.30pm local time on March 26, and saved 400,000kWh of electrical energy worth VND500 million. Full of Earth Hour posters Major streets in [...] Read More »