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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November 12, 2011
African drug smugglers shift carriers to avoid detection Preyanooch Phuttharaksa, a 22-year-old Thai student, was arrested on October 29 at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport for allegedly smuggling more than three kilograms of methamphetamine into Vietnam Everything went smoothly for Preyanooch Phuttharaksa on arrival at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan [...]
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November 7, 2011
A file photo of excavating coal in Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam Marine police in northern Vietnam Saturday seized more than 500 tons of coal dust that was being smuggled into China. Â One boat was caught trafficking 34 tons of coal dust and another 510 tons, said police from Quang Ninh, Vietnam coal excavation [...]
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October 12, 2011
The sea lion caught in Quang Binh in August. A sea lion found in central Vietnam in August has died after two months in the pond of a local fisherman, he said Monday. Nguyen Van Dien from Quang Binh Province had been authorized to take care of the animal for 20 days after he spotted [...]
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October 8, 2011
Four years after a real estate boom that saw investors camp out on the streets waiting to pay cash for unbuilt apartments, Vietnam’s once-hot property market has caught a chill. High inflation and interest rates along with a government-imposed credit squeeze have led to a fall in prices and other incentives to entice residential [...]
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August 9, 2011
Sewage flows from a sluice gate of Sonadezi Corporation's waste treatment plant into a canal that runs into the Dong Nai River. Fishermen living near the waste treatment plant of state-owned Sonadezi Corporation in southern Vietnam have accused the company of hurting their livelihoods by dumping untreated sewage into the river. Last Thursday, after observing [...]
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August 8, 2011
A baby with cataract as a rubella syndrome at the Central Ob-Gyn Hospital in Hanoi. A woman in northern Vietnam spent three years undergoing treatment for infertility, and then had to have an abortion in the 12th week of her pregnancy after she caught the Rubella virus.  The woman is one of more than 1,000 [...]
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July 20, 2011
"Balls" of heroin found hidden in a box of mangosteen which was to be shipped from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in April. Narcotics squad officers from the Ministry of Public Security have arrested the leader of a cross-border drug trafficking ring in Ho Chi Minh City, police said Monday. Â Nguyen Ba Thuy, [...]
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July 16, 2011
Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]
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July 15, 2011
The 37.5-kilogram shark netted in Binh Dinh on Monday evening. A group of researchers and fishermen caught a 37.5 kilogram shark in the central province of Binh Dinh on Monday evening. The researchers from the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang and four local fishermen netted the shark off the coast of Quy Nhon City. The [...]
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