Vietnamese athletes grabbed 16 more gold medals at the SEA Games Wednesday, taking the country's gold haul to 40 and keeping it in second place in the table.

Another large scale quake lasting some 10 minutes rumbled through southern provinces at about 3pm today, after an earlier quake hit around midnight last night, according to experts.

SAIGON PORT which owns a land of 2,274 sqm located on Ha Long street, Vung Tau city, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, an ideal site adjacent to Vung Tau beach and the city center, call for co-operation of foreign and domestic investors to build and operate services of tourist hotel or office building for lease.

Vietnam should aim for rapid economic growth to catch up with neighboring countries and wipe out poverty, legislators said during a discussion on the government's economic forecast for 2006.

Fully a month after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and flattened the Gulf Coast, the victims, among them tens of thousands of Vietnamese-Americans, are living in makeshift shelters or with relatives.

Vietnamese, like Bangladeshi, are simply too keenly intimate with water-born natural disasters. Not a single year goes by without some major flood in each country, causing losses of lives and damages to properties.

A 68-storey building, Vietnam's tallest, is set to be constructed in the southern economic hub HCMC at an estimated cost of US$100 million, a local newspaper has reported.

HCMC will start work September 9 on its ever-largest bridge, which is expected to boost development of new urban areas in Vietnam's southern metro.

Vietnam's first open economic zone in Chu Lai in central Quang Nam province celebrated its second birthday on July 24 by launching nine major infrastructure projects with a combined worth of US$62.6 million.

Vietnam's biggest motorway tunnel in the central region opened to traffic June 5 after nearly five years of construction, with total investment capital of US$127.9 million, local authorities announced.