January 8, 2012
Experts say more should be done to eliminate scam taxis after inspections led to the suspension of eleven firms in HCMC and Hanoi An imitation taxi passes foreign tourists near HCMC’s Ben ThanhâMarket. Experts say Vietnam must do more to eliminate illegal taxis that tarnish the image of major cities. Nguyen Chi Hieu hailed [...]
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December 26, 2011
Hanoi police check the accident scene where a woman broke her leg after falling from a public bus on Saturday A 67 year old woman in Hanoi was hospitalized with a broken leg after falling from a public bus on Saturday. Bus driver Nguyen Van Can said the passenger Pham Thi Cham was carrying many [...]
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December 23, 2011
Phung Duc Quoc, a taxi driver, arrested in Hanoi for allegedly hitting an officer on Tuesday. Police in Hanoi on Tuesday arrested a taxi driver for allegedly hitting an officer as he tried to escape when they found him illegally parked. According to Tu Liem District’s police division, Phung Duc Quan, 28, a driver of Son [...]
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December 21, 2011
The truck that was towed away on a crossroad in Hanoi on Monday. A truck driver took off his pants to prevent traffic police officers from towing his truck away at a Hanoian crossroad on Monday, the Voice of Vietnam reported. A traffic police team signaled to stop the truck, which entered a prohibited street on Giai [...]
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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 21, 2011
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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November 21, 2011
The transport ministry’s inspectorate on Friday suspended a taxi company whose driver was arrested in early November for overcharging two Singaporean guests of an Interpol meeting in Hanoi, VnExpress reported. Nguyen Xuan Hao, chief inspector from the Ministry of Transport, said in the newswire that the Hanoi-based Phu Gia Co. was found operating “messily” [...]
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November 19, 2011
Two people, including a British woman, were killed and 15 injured after a bus crashed into a truck and a car in the northern province of Quang Ninh on Wednesday (November 16). At around 10 a.m., the bus carrying some 10 passengers crashed into a truck traveling the opposite direction on National Highway 18A [...]
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November 14, 2011
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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November 12, 2011
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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