Posts Tagged ‘ Electric ’

The greenest car you’ve (likely) never heard of 

April 16, 2011
The greenest car you’ve (likely) never heard of 

The Honda Civic GX 4DR, a natural Gas vehicle, at a car show in Los Angeles. The greenest car you’ve likely never heard of will soon be hitting Honda showrooms across the United States as the Japanese automaker expands sales of its compressed natural gas powered Civic. Honda has been quietly winning green car awards [...]

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Japan mulls reactor covers in nuclear crisis 

March 31, 2011
Japan mulls reactor covers in nuclear crisis 

In a file picture taken on March 23, 2011 Norio Tsuzumi (C-standing), vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Company,  and employees bow their heads to apologize to evacuees at a shelter in Fukushima prefecture Japan was Wednesday considering plans to drape shattered nuclear reactor buildings with special covers to limit radiation, and pump contaminated water [...]

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Radioactivity soars inside Japanese reactor 

March 29, 2011
Radioactivity soars inside Japanese reactor 

Reactors No. 1 to 4 are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant in Fukushima in this satellite file image, taken and released by DigitalGlobe March 18, 2011 Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after radiation in water at the crippled nuclear power plant reached potentially lethal [...]

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Prodigies or bodies? 

December 22, 2010
Prodigies or bodies? 

  Modeling industry, parents join hands to exploit pre-teen girls Le Hoang Bao Tran (L), 12, on the catwalk. Tran recently made headlines when her skirt was blown up (à la Marilyn Monroe) by an electric fan during a fashion show. 16-year-old Hong Que (R) from Hanoi started walking the catwalk when she was only [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 1/2

February 1, 2010
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 1/2

HCM City rakes in over 1.3 bln USD from exports in January; E-customs procedures to be applied for exports; Construction of An Khanh Thermo-electric Power Plant starts  Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest commercial hub, grossed over 1.3 billion USD from exports in January, up 8.8 percent from a year ago. Of the amount, [...]

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House painter dies in fall caused by electric shock

January 29, 2010
House painter dies in fall caused by electric shock

A man who suffered an electric shock and fell off a scaffolding 10 meters high died of serious injures on the way to the hospital in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang on Wednesday. The 41-year-old only identified as Dau was hired to paint the house of Nguyen Khoa Duong Hanh on Nguyen Chi [...]

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Government to intervene in “electric pole war”

January 28, 2010
Government to intervene in “electric pole war”

LookAtVietnam – Enterprises involved in the quarrel over leasing prices for electric poles must keep negotiating or the Government will step in.  This is the result of a meeting between the ministries of Information and Communications, Trade and Industry and Finance on January 26 about the Electricity of Vietnam Group’s leasing prices for electric poles [...]

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EVN claims innocence in recent “electric pole war”

January 25, 2010
EVN claims innocence in recent “electric pole war”

Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) has sent a document to government agencies to complain about their suffering.  EVN wrote that its system of electric poles has been seriously downgrade by “parasitic” telecommunication cables. For this reason, EVN plans no concessions on leasing prices of electric poles. They also complained about accusations that EVN abuses its monopoly [...]

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Mini-war breaks out among state groups

January 23, 2010
Mini-war breaks out among state groups

Facing the common opponent in the “electric pole war”, the two rivals in the telecommunication market – VNPT and Viettel – suddenly become friends and plan to build electric poles together.  The situation EVN, VNPT and Viettel are state-owned groups and the money shifting from this pocket to that is all State money. Their quarrel over [...]

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Electric wire kills another city boy; blame unassigned

January 21, 2010
Electric wire kills another city boy; blame unassigned

A teenage school boy was electrocuted to death in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday when he touched a live wire as he walked past a construction site in the rain. The incident was the city’s third such death in 5 months.Local residents in Thu Duc District found Huynh Minh Khanh 15 minutes after he was [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...