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 [...]
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January 15, 2012
A handout from the Italian Guardia de Finanza shows the Costa Concordia, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio. Two South Korean honeymooners were rescued Sunday from a cruise ship that hit rocks and keeled over off the west coast of Italy, but three were confirmed dead [...]
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August 27, 2011
Vietnamese fishermen at a prison in Palawan Province, the Philippines Over 100 Vietnamese fishermen allegedly victimized by a predatory fishing contract are longing for home as their trial for illegally fishing in the Philippines begins in Palawan Province. “We want to return to our hometowns as soon as possible,” Tran Van Thai, 42, told Tuoi [...]
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August 6, 2011
Increasing assaults on traffic cops indicate faults on both sides, senior official says  A still from a clip that shows Phuc (L), a mobile police officer, attacking Sergeant-Major Luan, a traffic cop who stopped the former for driving without a helmet It sounds too bad to be true, but hundreds of traffic police [...]
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June 1, 2011
Forty-year-old Chinese Guo Liangcai lost his wife, children, two siblings and friends in a boat accident last Friday in the southern province of Binh Duong. Guo Liangcai’s voice never stopped quavering. “I don’t know how I will handle the truth,” he told Thanh Nien Weekly over the phone last Tuesday. The 40-year-old Chinese businessman spoke [...]
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May 27, 2011
The Vietnamese fishing boat that was attacked by an unidentified vessel while travelling through the border waters between the Philippines and Malaysia, on May 15. The fourteen Vietnamese fishermen that came under attack from pirates in the border waters between the Philippines and Malaysia returned home to the central province of Quang Ngai, on Tuesday. Two of the men were still nursing injuries they [...]
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February 18, 2011
A representative of the company which owns a Vietnamese ship reported to be stranded off the coast of southern India for nearly six months with 18 sailors on board on Wednesday rejected the reports carried in the Indian media.  Vu Quang, deputy director of Bien Nam Ship Trade Co., Ltd., said the ship’s Malaysian captain Maung Maung [...]
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February 12, 2011
Police at the scene where an army captain is said to have shot a person dead and critically seriously another on Wednesday. Military forces in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long are investigating a case where an army captain allegedly shot a person dead and seriously injured another, a local official said Thursday.  Initial information [...]
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December 25, 2010
A barge stuck under the O Thuoc Bridge in Tien Giang Province. The barge's captain was killed in the accident. The captain of a barge was killed in the Mekong Delta’s Tien Giang Province Sunday night (December 19) as it got stuck at a bridge on the Rach Gam River. Phung Minh Tam, 33, was crushed [...]
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December 11, 2010
Passengers taking a hydrofoil from downtown Ho Chi Minh City to Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on Monday (December 6) had an unforgettable cruise, riding the waves with 50 people more than the vessel’s capacity. To make the cruise more exciting, the captain of the hydrofoil did not have a license to pilot the hydrofoil, [...]
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