Ha Noi, Vietnam News

After cooperation between the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre and the Bordeaux en Aquitaine National Theatre of France, the programme has debuted after a year of rehearsals which began in October, 2010.

Vietnamese artists Ngo Quang Nam, Doan Hong, Nguyen Van Cuong, Tran Yen The, Vu Bach Lien, Cong Quoc Thang, Ha Anh Tuan and Chu Viet Cuong will share their works in different mediums, including oil on canvas, lacquers, ceramics and graphics.

Insufficient water quality monitoring and data makes it difficult to stop the degradation of rivers and streams in Viet Nam.

The factory with a designed capacity of 800,000 tonnes of urea/ year will make a considerable contribution to supply fertilizers for agricultural production for the whole Mekong Delta area.

FM Minh held talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations in all fields as well as regional and international issues of mutual concern.

Under the baton of Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji, the French artist and the VNSO will present Piano Concerto No.1 D minor Op.15 and Symphony No.1 C minor Op.68 by Johannes Brahms.

The Viet Nam Railway Corporation has set itself a target of reducing the number of accidents, deaths, and injuries by 10 per cent this year, and preventing fatal accidents at level crossings caused by road users' negligence.

Photo shows a motorbike after it burst into flames in Ha Noi's Cau Giay District.

He follows European Realism, a style that became popular after being adopted by Vietnamese artists at the Indochina Fine Arts College that opened in Ha Noi in 1926.

Motorbike makers in Viet Nam produced 384,800 bikes last month, a year-on-year increase of 11.3 per cent, fuelled by discounts of retail prices, statistics released yesterday showed.

A transaction at a Ha Noi-based branch of Ocean Bank. Liquidity has been one of the biggest challenges for commercial banks in recent months due to the central bank's tightened monetary policies.

Traditional fare : Andree Anne Poulin and Audrey Portelance from Canada learn to make spring rolls at a typical Vietnamese house.

The People's Committee of Ha Noi on Tuesday decided to advance VND94 billion from the city financial reserve fund for the third phase of price stabilisation of essential goods after Tet .

Sang told his guest that Viet Nam attached importance to the role and position of Brazil as the largest Latin American economy.

The Ha Noi Stock Exchange yesterday also suspend SME's operations on both the listed and unlisted markets until February 15.

Much of his work focused on the role, position, characteristics and principles of building culture, especially revolutionary culture, the seminar was told.

Paramodel was formed in 2001 by Japanese artists Hayashi Yasuhiko and Nakano Yusuke.

Gas and petrol stations located near residential areas in Vietnamese big cities continue to threaten locals' health and safety, despite last year's deadly gas explosions .

With a nationwide theme of " Heritage Tourism " this year, Vietnam 's tourism industry is expected to experience an increase of tourists and strong competition with other countries in the region, General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Nguyen Van Tuan has said.

The victim mistook the pesticide bottle for a soft drink. His mother found him and took him to the provincial hospital where he died.