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German quartet to do

German quartet to do

Class act: Notos Quartet showed up in Ha Noi on Monday morning for performances in Ha Noi and HCM City. — File Photo HN — German music artists from Frankfurt promise to deal with audiences in Ha Noi and HCM City to some feast of classical functions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joaquin Turina and Johannes Brahms.Notos Quartet comprises violinist Sindri Lederer, pianist Antonia Koster, violist Liisa Randalu and cellist Florian Streich.The quartet

Presidential run-off tests Timor-Leste democracy

DILI – Timor-Leste visited the polls on Monday to elect a brand new leader inside a run-off election, because the youthful democracy prepares to celebrate its first decade of independence and bid goodbye to Not forces.Voters queued before polls opened up around 7am (2200 GMT Sunday), an AFP correspondent saw, inside a contest pitting Francisco Guterres "Lu Olo" against Taur Matan Ruak.A stable trickle of voters cast their ballots in the Motael primary school, a polling station within the leafy Farol suburb

Traditional dress parade charms Hue festival-goers

Traditional dress parade charms Hue festival-goers

Everything vibrant and delightful: Models outfitted in lotus flower-printed ao dai (traditional lengthy dress) in the first fashion parade in the Hue Festival. The 2nd parade is going to be held tonight. Photos There she's: Miss Viet Nam Ngoc Han presents an ao dai creation throughout

GM posts record China sales in 2011

GM posts record China sales in 2011

US auto giant General Motors said Monday its sales in China hit a record high in 2011

Market dips for sixth straight day

HCMC – With a majority of stocks declining, the local market extended its losing streak to the sixth straight session on Monday as selling pressure soared towards the end of the day, dragging the VN-Index down 4.56 points, or 1.15%, against last Friday to close at 391.74.

China sales push Taiwan's HTC to record profit

China sales push Taiwan's HTC to record profit

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC said Monday that strong demand from China helped it post a record profit in the three months to September, but it forecasted slower phone sales in the fourth quarter

Asian markets hurt by fresh Europe fears

Asian markets hurt by fresh Europe fears

Renewed concerns over the European debt crisis and a big fall on Wall Street hit most Asian markets on Tuesday while the euro remained under pressure after suffering heavy losses overnight.

Youngsters to celebrate Halloween

Youngsters to celebrate Halloween

There are still a few days left to Halloween, a festival popular in North America and Western Europe in which people dress up in scary costumes as monsters, ghosts and witches.

Bad weather hits flights to central Vietnam

HCMC - Torrential rain and unfavorable weather continued to impact a number of domestic flights to certain airports in central Vietnam on Monday after causing some cancellations the day before.

More oil spills expected from stricken N.Z. ship

New Zealand warned more oil was set to spill from a crippled container ship on Monday, as looming bad weather threatened to halt the draining of fuel from the stricken vessel's tanks.

From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of