Dreams

Nostalgia draws artist back to her roots

Nostalgia for Ha Noi urged Vietnamese-Swedish painter Maj Trang Fredriksson to return to her birthplace and showcase her artwork at an on-going exhibition in the capital city.

Young footballers to train in Qatar

Two young Vietnamese football players have been chosen to take part in a month-long training course at the Qatar-based Aspire Academy.

Best young footballers vie for dream trip to Qatar

Fifty of the best footballers nationwide have been chosen via the Football Dreams programme in HCM City-based Thanh Long Sports Centre.

Largest football talent search to return in April

Football Dreams – the world’s largest talent searching program – is set to return in Vietnam from April to select potential would-be footballers

‘Football Dreams’ set to return in April

“Football Dreams”, a programme designed by the Qatar Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence to seek football talents will come back to Vietnam next month.

CAO launches luxury jewelry collection

To celebrate Christmas and five years in business, CAO Fashion Company has released a jewelry collection called “Boundless Dreams” with pieces priced between VND100 million and VND10.5 billion each.

Con Dao listed in top 10-best islands

Viet Nam's Con Dao Island has been named as one of the top ten romantic destinations in the world for 2011 by the UK's Lonely Planet magazine.

Japanese features, anime to screen

Japanese director Nobuhiro Doi's latest film Hanamizuki is one of ten films scheduled to show in competition at the first Vietnam International Film Festival, which runs until Oct. 21 in Hanoi.

Vietnam TV show makes it to Asian awards short list

In Dreaming Star, which is nominated in two categories, celebrities help young people realize their dreams

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