July 5, 2012
HANOI, June 29, 2012 — The “Yes! Condom” Campaign, developed by the USAID Social Marketing for HIV Prevention Project in consultation with Vietnamese commercial partners, will be launched this evening at 8 p.m. in the Giang Vo Exhibition Center in Hanoi. The goal of the campaign is to help people protect themselves from HIV infection [...]
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 25, 2012
Two Vietnamese sailors on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean two years ago have called home saying the pirates had chopped off an arm of the captain. The pirates are demanding a US$2.8-million ransom. On January 20, Tran Van Hung, one of the 26 crew members of the [...]
Tags: 12 Vietnamese, Boat Owner, By Somali Pirates, called, Called Home, Captain, company, Crew Members, Fv Shiuh, His Family, January 20, members, Not Pay, Not Pay The, Not Pay The Ransom, Of The Captain, On The Boat, Pay The Ransom, pirates, ransom, sailors, Shiuh Fu, Somali, Somali Pirates, Taiwanese, The boat, The Boat Owner, The Captain, The Crew, The Crew Members, The Fv, The Pirates, The Pirates Had, The Ransom, The Sailors, Tran Van, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Sailor
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 25, 2012
Three people were killed and one seriously injured Saturday after a speeding bus crashed into two motorbikes on a highway in the south central province of Binh Thuan. Local police said the passenger bus, driven by Luong Hung Dung, 31, was traveling from Phan Thiet City in Binh Thuan Province to Quang Ngai Province [...]
Tags: Binh thuan, Crashed Into Two, Crashed Into Two Motorbikes, highway, injured, Into Two Motorbikes, motorbikes, Old Wife, Police, province, Quang, Seriously Injured, The Bus, Traveling, Two Motorbikes, Year old, Year Old Wife
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 23, 2012
A young man smokes shisha in a Hanoi bar. Ho Chi Minh City authorities have asked local police and inspectors of relevant agencies to keep a close watch on bars and clubs where the hookah (usually known in Vietnam as shisha), a type of fruit-flavored, sweet-scented tobacco, is sold. Â The HCMC People’s Committee, the [...]
Tags: Bars And Clubs, Shisha, Shisha Smoking, smoking, The hcmc, tobacco
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 22, 2012
Police in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang have arrested a woman for organizing gambling chess games for local officials, Tuoi Tre reported Thursday. The newspaper quoted police as saying Ngo Hue Phan let Nguyen Thanh Leo, former deputy director of Soc Trang Province Transport Department, and Dinh Van Muoi, former deputy chief [...]
Tags: arrested, billion, chess, Chess Game, Chess Games, Chinese Chess, Former, Former Deputy, gambling, Games, Mekong delta, Nguyen, Nguyen Thanh, Of Soc Trang, Official Arrested, Officials, On The Games, Police, province, Soc trang, Thanh, The games, Trang
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 22, 2012
Hoang Thi Tien at a police station. She has been charged with murder after allegedly poisoning her husband and two friends with "heartbreak grass". Police in the northeastern province of Ha Giang on Friday pressed murder charges against a woman who allegedly fatally poisoned her husband and his two friends with a toxic shrub known as [...]
Tags: Elegans, friends, Gelsemium, Gelsemium Elegans, Giang, Giang Seo, Grass, Heartbreak, Heartbreak Grass, Her husband, Her Husband And, Herbal Wine, Hoang, Hoang Thi, Hoang Thi Tien, husband, Husband And His, Murder, Murder Charges, poisoned, Police, Tay Ethnic, Thi Tien, Three, Three Men, Thuyen, toxic, Two Friends, Two Friends With, Vietnam, woman, Year old
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 21, 2012
Hanoi on Tuesday adjusted the working hours of educational institutions in the capital city, before the new hours that aim to reduce traffic congestion becomes operative citywide in February. Even as the date closes in, many people are skeptical about how effective the new policy is going to be, although it will affect the daily lives [...]
Tags: February, group, Hanoi, hours:, Many people, New Working, New Working Hours, Office Workers, people, Said The New, State Office, State Office Workers, students, The new, The New Working, The New Working Hours, The Plan, The Time, The Working, The Working Hours, traffic, Will Affect The, Working, Working Hours, Working Hours The, Working Hours Will
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 21, 2012
Nguyen Thi Thanh Ngoc is being treatd for severe burns at a Ho Chi Minh City after a man, believed to be a neighbor, threw acid on all members of her family. All four people in a family in Ho Chi Minh City were severely burned Wednesday by acid thrown on them, allegedly by a neighbor. [...]
Tags: Being Treated, Burns, Chi minh, Chi minh city, family, Her husband, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, husband, Many Burns, Minh city, Neighbor, Nguyen, Nguyen Quoc, Nguyen thi, Nguyen Thi Thanh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Ngoc, Said The Man, Thanh, Thanh ngoc, The Acid, The children, The Daughter, The Man, Thi thanh, Thi Thanh Ngoc, treated, Year old
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 19, 2012
Vietnam on Thursday reported its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, as the virus also claimed the life of a toddler in Cambodia. Â Concerns about avian influenza have risen in the region after China in late December reported its first fatality from the H5N1 virus in 18 months, but [...]
Tags: 2003 According, According, Avian Influenza, Bird flu, Cambodia, first, First Human, First Human Death, First Human Death From, From Bird Flu, Human Death, Human Death From, Its First, January, Mekong delta, reported, Reported Its First, Since 2003, Since 2003 According, The h5n1, The virus, Vietnam, virus
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 19, 2012
A court in southern Vietnam on Wednesday asked local police to investigate further the murder of a journalist which has drawn a great deal of public and media attention over the past year. Le Quang Hung, deputy chief of Long An Province’s People’s Court said in VnExpress that they would not hold a hearing to [...]
Tags: Against Lieu, concluded, culprit, further, Had Given, Her husband, husband, In Cambodia And, investigations, journalist, Ldquo, Local Police, Murder, Only Culprit, Police, Prosecutors, Rdquo, The case, The Only Culprit
Posted in Social | Comments Off
