Tag: HANOI
Vietnam Weather and Climate
Vietnam is an elongated country which reaches from the sub-tropics in the north to the tropics in the south. The weather differs greatly in Vietnam from the north to the south, from four-mild seasons in northern…
Wanna Skydive from the Everest or Relax in Buzios…
Personally I am not a fan of cruises and in general group travel.I would take it for a day for say a bus trip to a specific destination but that would be it.The Happy Leap Year Day newsletter by the ever creative people at Firefly Tonics in the UK landed in my e-box this…
Vietnam annually detects 9,000 drug addicts
Hanoi (ANTARA News) – Vietnam annually spotted, on average, 9,000 drug addicts nationwide in the 1996-2006 period, local newspaper People`s Army reported Thursday.Now, Vietnam has some 170,000 drug addicts, 68.3 percent of whom are aged under 30, the newspaper quoted…
Hanoi travel information
What to Do?Highlights of Hanoi are strolling around Hoan Kiem Lake, the Old Quarter and to Hochiminh Complex with nearby One Pillar Pagoda. Other famous sites are the Temple of Literature, the Opera House (especially…
Snakes on an actual plane
Last month, 1,550 pounds of reptiles seized aboard Thai Airways flight”HANOI – Vietnam has seized more than a ton of rat snakes found aboard a Vietnam Airlines flight from Bangkok, the second time in about a month such snakes were found in air cargo to Vietnam, state media…
China, Vietnam & Global Issues
China and Vietnam top many lists: Human Rights abusers, global polluters of immense proportions, and leaders in putting economics before protection of the “little people.” U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte will visit both nations starting next week. We…
Vietnam, China Still At Odds Over Resources, Terr…
China and Vietnam are engaged in a long-standing dispute over territory and resources in the South China Sea. Both China and Vietnam claim ownership of the Spratley Islands group.A Chinese patrol boat. Vietnam has protested over Chinese military exercises in the disputed…
Scorpions on a plane delay Vietnam flight
“”We don`t know yet how the scorpions got on the plane. We are coordinating with relevant agencies to investigate the incident,” said Van.In April, a Vietnam Airlines flight to Tokyo was delayed after a passenger told airport officials his white mouse had gone missing en…
Honour for bribe-busting granny
“A 76-year-old Vietnamese woman has been given a major award by a global anti-corruption watchdog.
Transparency International (TI) said Le Hien Duc had been chosen for the annual Integrity Award for being a “resourceful anti-corruption fighter”.
Corruption is widespread in…
World Bank helps Indonesia`s reform and infrastru…
“The US$600 million Fourth Development Policy Loan and the US$200 million First Infrastructure Development Policy Loan bring together the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Japanese government and the World Bank (WB) on a common platform to support Indonesia`s growing reform…
A ‘La Verticale’ (Hanoi), Chef Didier Corlou, A F…
While I settled in New Jersey, Chef Didier Corlou, a fellow Breton after traveling the world cooking and discovering a wealth of flavors, ingredients and cultures, settled down in Hanoi, Vietnam. I discovered that we were born the same year in the same part of Brittany,…
Vietnam drop in FIFA world ranking
Hanoi (ANTARA News) – Vietnam have dropped one place in the world
rankings for November, as announced by FIFA, football’s governing body.
Vietnam dropped to 140th in the world rankings and fell to fourth place in Southeast Asia, VNA reported.
The country, who failed…
Asean to issue declaration on greening region by …
“ASEAN`s Web site says the leaders will sign a declaration on environmental sustainability to protect and manage the environment.
The Web site also says the leaders will declare their support for a successful outcome of negotiations at the annual UN climate conference to be…
Nine Asian cities meet in Jakarta on disaster han…
“”This will be the fifth meeting of the kind with the first having taken place in 2001,” Ritola Tasmaya, secretary of the Jakarta City Administration said on Wednesday.
The nine cities are Bangkok (Thailand), New Delhi (India), Hanoi (Vietnam), Jakarta (Indonesia), Kuala…
Here’s the Smell of the Blood Still
“When Martin Luther King Jr. publicly referred to “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government,” he had no way of knowing that his description would ring so true 40 years later. As…
