Posts Tagged ‘ emergency ’

Everyday art goes on show at the Emergency Room 

November 28, 2011
Everyday art goes on show at the Emergency Room 

Emergency Room's Poster. An exhibition called Emergency Room, featuring works by Vietnamese and Danish artists, is being held at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Hanoi until Dec 8. According to a press release from the Danish Embassy, Emergency Room, which opened on Nov 24, is an ever changing exhibition room which makes it [...]

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Violence prone 

November 21, 2011
Violence prone 

  Emergency rooms in HCMC hospitals are witnessing a massive increase in the number of people wounded in intoxicated brawls Patients being treated at the emergency ward of Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors say there has been an alarming increase in cases of people wounded in fights being admitted to the hospitals. [...]

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Vietnam Airlines passenger opens emergency exit, delays flight 

November 7, 2011
Vietnam Airlines passenger opens emergency exit, delays flight 

  National carrier Vietnam Airlines Saturday (Nov 5) delayed a flight for about two hours after a passenger opened an emergency exit shortly before takeoff. Nguyen Duc Duy, a 22-year-old student from Ho Chi Minh City, is facing a fine of VND10-20 million (US$475-951) for his act. Duy was reportedly seated next to an emergency [...]

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British motorway crash injures up to 40, some killed 

November 5, 2011
British motorway crash injures up to 40, some killed 

   File picture shows parked emergency response vehicles. Up to 40 people were injured and some were killed after a massive pile-up on a British motorway, emergency services said on Saturday. Up to 40 people were injured and some were killed after a massive pile-up on a British motorway, emergency services said on Saturday. Television [...]

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Thai PM tells Bangkok to move belongings to safety 

October 21, 2011
Thai PM tells Bangkok to move belongings to safety 

   Thai people wade through floodwaters in the inundated Ban Bua Thong district of suburban Bangkok on October 20, 2011. Millions of jittery Bangkok residents were warned Friday to move their belongings higher up after the government admitted it was failing in its battle to hold back huge floods just north of the city. In [...]

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Unhealthy relationship 

August 28, 2011
Unhealthy relationship 

An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]

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Russia says plane crash kills 44, eight injured 

June 21, 2011
Russia says plane crash kills 44, eight injured 

  A passenger plane slammed into the ground and caught fire while trying to land on a foggy night in northwestern Russia, killing at least 44 people on board, authorities said on Tuesday. The Tupolev-134, with 43 passengers and nine crew, crashed on a road 700 meters (2,300 feet) short of the runway at the [...]

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US rushes aid after tornadoes kill 45 

April 18, 2011
US rushes aid after tornadoes kill 45 

Shawtna Mathews, 13, pictured on April 17, 2011, after a tornado destroyed her home in Gloucester, Virginia. US authorities Monday rushed aid to southern states after powerful tornadoes cut a path of death and destruction, killing at least 45 and reducing entire towns to piles of rubble. The tragedy began late Thursday in Oklahoma, where [...]

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Tsunami slams Japan after record earthquake, killing hundreds 

March 12, 2011
Tsunami slams Japan after record earthquake, killing hundreds 

A tsunami wave engulfs a residential area after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on March 11 Japan was struck by its strongest earthquake on record, an 8.9-magnitude temblor that shook buildings across Tokyo and unleashed a seven-meter-high tsunami that killed hundreds as it engulfed towns on the northern coast. As many as [...]

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Desperate times 

March 12, 2011
Desperate times 

A man reads job notices on an electric pole in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese economists are calling on government officials to implement some sort of emergency relief as inflation and prices soar. As the government considers modifying the Law on Personal Income Tax, experts say that it should institute an emergency income tax [...]

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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...