December 23, 2011
The Saigon Post Office in the early-20th century ⦠and the Ho Chi Minh City’s General Post Office at present In Ho Chi Minh City, two iconic buildings that are tourist attractions as much for their architecture as their history are the Notre Dame Cathedral and General Post Office situated next to each other [...]
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December 19, 2011
A woman looks up at the 33-floor building where her colleagues were trapped by a fire in Hanoi Thursday. She was among 40 workers rescued by the local fire deparment. The 33-floor Hanoi building that caught fire Thursday, injuring 11, failed to meet fire and safety regulations, an official told Thanh Nien Friday. To Xuan [...]
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December 16, 2011
A big fire broke out Thursday at a 33-floor building that was under construction in Hanoi, injuring 11 workers. The fire started at around 4 p.m. in the basement of one of the twin towers invested in by state-owned power utility Electricity of (EVN). The fire wasn’t extinguished until about five hours later. General To Xuan Thieu, vice [...]
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November 14, 2011
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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November 13, 2011
Residents flock to the Agribank transaction office in Hanoi's Thanh Oai District, where a security guard was killed on Friday, Nov 12. Thieves fatally stabbed a security guard to rob a transaction office of the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) in Hanoi early Saturday, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported. At around 5 a.m., [...]
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October 30, 2011
Reigning male and female vertical running world champions Thomas Dold (R) of Germany and Melissa Moon of New Zealand will come to Vietnam for the first time for the 2011 Vertical World Circuit. The first vertical run in Vietnam will be held at Ho Chi Minh City’s tallest building on Sunday, with world champions [...]
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October 28, 2011
The Bolshoi Theatre’s restored auditorium is seen during a media tour in October. Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre reopened Friday after a six-year closure for a massive restoration of its historic building that was delayed by several years and four times over budget. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the audience that the Bolshoi was a "national [...]
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October 26, 2011
Rescue workers carry a baby from a collapsed building in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van, October 25, 2011. Emergency workers rescued a 27-year-old woman alive from a collapsed building on Wednesday, three days after an earthquake killed more than 400 people in eastern Turkey, but hopes of finding more survivors faded and [...]
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October 8, 2011
Residents of five upscale apartment buildings in Hanoi have sought the capital city administration’s help in preventing service fees from being hiked unreasonably. According to a report in Monday’s Tuoi Tre newspaper, the residents at 93 Lo Duc Street, The Manor, Golden Westlake, Keangnam, and Sky City have complained that the prices for services [...]
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August 27, 2011
An arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey sparked a massive fire and killed at least 52 people, the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon said Thursday. Mexico offered a reward of $2.4 million for information leading to the arrest of armed men who torched a casino, leaving [...]
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