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A pistol and bullets are seized from the residence of drug suspect Tran Hoai Nam in Nghe An Province, Vietnam. Photo: Dinh Hop / Tuoi Tre On the same day, Thanh Hoa police caught Tran Trong Tinh, 26, driving a car with four kilograms of crystal meth on National Highway 1. … [Read more...] about Vietnam arrests duo transporting narcotics sourced from Laos

Accordingly, the flower decorations will guide visitors through iconic landscapes of Vietnam, achievements of Can Tho, and major events to take place in the city and the Southeast Asian country in 2020, according to the municipal Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. … [Read more...] about Mekong city given facelift with annual flower street

  HCM City (VNA) – Politburo member and Minister of Public Security To Lam held talks with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Samdech Krolahom Sar Kheng in Ho Chi Minh City on January 18. The talks aimed to review the cooperation between the two ministries in 2029 and signed a new cooperation plan for 2020. During the talks, the two ministers affirmed that the cooperation in 2019 reached positive outcomes, importantly contributing to ensuring security and order between the two nations in general and in each country in particular. They reviewed cooperation and efforts of the two sides in ensuring security and combating transnational crimes, especially drug and human trafficking, and hi-tech crimes, for peace and cooperation in the region. The ministers pledged to forge closer cooperation at international bilateral and multilateral forums, and join hands to defeat all plots of hostile forces against the relations between the two countries. Sar … [Read more...] about Vietnamese, Cambodian security ministries boost cooperation

Da Nang (VNA) – The People’s Committee of Hoang Sa district in the central city of Da Nang has received documents, maps, artifacts and research works on Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago presented by organisations and individuals. At a ceremony on January 18, General Director of the State Records and Achieves Department of Vietnam Dang Thanh Tung handed over 19 chau ban (official administrative papers) on the establishment and exercise of the sovereignty of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, including a paper published for the first time. Meanwhile, Director of the Institute of Sino-Nom Studies Nguyen Tuan Cuong presented a map named “Hoang Le Canh Hung ban do”, which depicts a golden sand beach (Hoang Sa archipelago) stretching out to sea, corresponding to the area from the Cua Dai sea to the middle of Sa Huynh mountain in the mainland. Other documents are the … [Read more...] about Da Nang gets documents on Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa

Rice paddies have a history of thousands of years in Vietnam. Rice has fed Vietnamese people for untold generations, helped us stay strong through war after war defending and protecting our nation. People have even compared the "S" shape of Vietnam with a yoke that has two baskets of rice on either end, one the Red River Delta in the north, and the other the Mekong Delta in the south. … [Read more...] about On fertile agricultural land, Vietnam’s shooting itself in the foot