Posts Tagged ‘ accident ’

Vroom… Boom! 

December 19, 2011
Vroom… Boom! 

  Mysterious motorbike fires, explosion draw attention to the lack of qualified mechanics and potentially dangerous modifications Wreckage of a motorbike that caught fire on December 12 in Hanoi Five-year-old Nguyen Khanh Van died on Tuesday (December 13), becoming the latest victim of a series of unexplained motorbike accidents where the vehicles have caught fire, [...]

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Four family members dead in HCMC car accident 

December 14, 2011
Four family members dead in HCMC car accident 

A Hyundai sedan was damaged after a Toyota Fortuner crashed into it in Ho Chi Minh City's District 1 on Dec 10. A nine-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a car accident that took place in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 last weekend succumbed to his injuries on Monday, bringing the accident’s fatalities [...]

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Official arrested for involvement in central Vietnam truck tragedy 

December 14, 2011
Official arrested for involvement in central Vietnam truck tragedy 

The truck overturning in the north-central province of Nghe An on December 7, killing ten and injuring five others A vice director of a nature reserve in the central province of Nghe An has become the fifth person to be arrested as police investigate the timber truck overturn killing 10 and injuring five others last week. [...]

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No explosive found in northern Vietnam's deadly bike explosion 

December 9, 2011
No explosive found in northern Vietnam's deadly bike explosion 

A bike on fire after an explosion on December 1 that killed a woman and injured a child in the northern province of Bac Ninh. No traces of explosives were found in the motorbike explosion that killed a pregnant woman and critically injured her daughter in northern Vietnam last week, a news website quoted a local official [...]

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Reckless abandon 

November 21, 2011
Reckless abandon 

  Speeding and handing the wheels over to unlicensed drivers is not uncommon practice among container truck drivers, an investigation finds Rescuers carrying the body of a victim killed by an accident between a container truck and a bus that left 10 dead in Binh Thuan Province on November 7. The lack of container truck [...]

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Schoolgirls crash motorbike into police, five injured 

November 18, 2011
Schoolgirls crash motorbike into police, five injured 

The girls' motorbike and police at the accident scene Three schoolgirls on a motorbike crashed into a police patrol motorbike, seriously injuring themselves and two traffic police officers on a road in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Thursday. Nguyen Thi My Linh, Le Thi Hong Phuong and Nguyen Huynh Kim Ngan, all [...]

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Making the big move 

November 14, 2011
Making the big move 

  A local worker prepares before moving the 1,500 ton Van Linh Pagoda on Cam Mountain in An Giang Province 20 meters backward and simultaneously turning it 90 degrees. They call him a genie, but Do Quoc Khanh waves it off, saying there is no magic to his work. “As soon as all the procedures [...]

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Three killed as truck hits nine vehicles in southern Vietnam 

November 14, 2011
Three killed as truck hits nine vehicles in southern Vietnam 

The front of a truck, one of the nine vehicles hit by another truck in southern Vietnam on Saturday. Three people including two teenagers were killed in southern Vietnam on Saturday as a truck hit nine vehicles. The southbound truck from Hanoi hit another truck on National Highway 1A across Dong Nai Province that neighbors [...]

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Police trying to verify driver’s identity in tragic traffic accident 

November 12, 2011
Police trying to verify driver’s identity in tragic traffic accident 

  Vietnamese police said they are verifying information that a driver’s assistant was driving the container truck before filing charges in the tragic accident that killed 10 people and injured 21 on Monday, November 7 in a central province. Colonel Nguyen Van Lang, police chief in Ham Thuan Bac District, Binh Thuan Province, said the [...]

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British motorway crash injures up to 40, some killed 

November 5, 2011
British motorway crash injures up to 40, some killed 

   File picture shows parked emergency response vehicles. Up to 40 people were injured and some were killed after a massive pile-up on a British motorway, emergency services said on Saturday. Up to 40 people were injured and some were killed after a massive pile-up on a British motorway, emergency services said on Saturday. Television [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...