December 19, 2011
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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October 7, 2011
The fast and furious take over city streets throughout Traffic Safety Month An illegal racer performs tricks on Ho Chi Minh City’s Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Street. The central government is looking to crack down on street racing in the country’s biggest cities. The Ho Chi Minh City municipal administration has asked the central [...]
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September 27, 2011
Mobs of hundreds of racers continue to roar through the city on weekends, with some hitting traffic police or luring them into fatal traps An illegal motorbike race on Chu Van An Street in Ho Chi Minh City. Police say illegal street races have become more common in recent months. The death of a [...]
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March 13, 2011
Thanh Nien Weekly had an exclusive ride-along with Ho Chi Minh City police during a recent citywide raid on illegal street racing A man being detained by police for participating in an illegal street-race in Ho Chi Minh City on March 5 Nguyen Kim Hoang, 27, climbed on top of his motorbike last Saturday, [...]
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February 1, 2010
Nearly 40 old bicycles, some worth several thousand dollars, grouped up by West Lake on a Sunday morning. In the noisy are of car and motorbike horns, bicycle bells sometimes stroke ding-dong.. Tran Nhu Tho (black glasses) and his unique Aviac. On the occasion of the New Year, members of the Hanoi Old Bicycle association [...]
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October 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s twenty somethings are headed out on the highway and looking for adventure. They are calling it Phuot – a slang term describing a new kind of tourism Vietnamese youth are embracing in large numbers — traveling on motorbikes to discover Vietnam. Phuot and du lich bui, meaning “dusty travel”, are the holidays [...]
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September 3, 2009
An installation art exhibition about Hanoi will open at the Viet Art Centre, 42 Yet Kieu, Hanoi, on September 5. The “Dust, bikes and dim streets” exhibition is a longing reminiscence about an old Hanoi through five installation artworks of a young artist, Bang Nhat Linh, 26, who lives in Hanoi. In his eyes, the “new” [...]
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March 20, 2009
Bikes of Burden by Hans Kemp.VietNamNet Bridge – Photo books are a vehicle for introducing Vietnam to the world. But according to book sellers in HCM City, if there are photo books by both Vietnamese and foreign authors on the shelf, foreign visitors will choose the foreign books. On the shelves for photo books about Vietnam, [...]
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January 25, 2009
Matt Chapmanâs bicycle shop east of Seattle always gets a sales boost in summer. Not because of the weather. Itâs when Microsoft Corp.âs interns arrive, carrying $300 checks from their employer for transportation. âThree hundred dollars goes a long way toward an inexpensive bike and a helmet,â said Chapman, 22, a sales associate at Performance [...]
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December 27, 2008
The Central Highlands resort town of Da Lat is offering a glimpse into the past with an exhibition of 20 antique scooters and mopeds. The ‘two-wheeled car’ Maico-Mobil scooter at the vintage bikes exhibition in Da LatVisitors can find various kinds of scooters, made between 1946 and 1960, which were once popular in Vietnam.One of [...]
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