January 15, 2012
Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]
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January 11, 2012
Three people were injured when a public transport van with passengers caught fire in the southern Vietnamese province of Dong Nai Friday. Witnesses said the Ford Transit was carrying around 20 people from Dong Nai to Ho Chi Minh City when the fire started in the second row of seats. Passengers yelled at the driver, [...]
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January 9, 2012
Two Honda motorbikes have become the latest victims of mysterious fires that have burned more than 90 vehicles across Vietnam since last year. One of the new cases happened in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue right after Hoang Thi Mai Tram left Hue Central Hospital, where she works, on Thursday. Tram said she [...]
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December 31, 2011
A motorbike on fire in Hanoi on October 12 Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Tran Van Vinh, deputy chief of the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, as saying [...]
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November 17, 2011
Police in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc District on Wednesday halted the operation of a filling station following accusations that the station sold gasoline mixed with water. Linh Dong Ward police summoned Tran Xuan Minh, the owner of the filling station, for questioning. Previously, police received complaints from locals saying their motorbikes broke [...]
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October 8, 2011
A man sells petrol at a station outside Hanoi on September 22. The Finance Ministry has sent out inspection teams to look into oil product prices of Petrolimex, PV Oil and two other distributors. The losses or profits fuel importers make are not clearly accounted for and people are unhappy about this. If the accounting [...]
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September 4, 2011
Ho Van Thao (C), dubbed the "gasoline boy," and two officials of the Long An Province Social Welfare Center A deaf and mute Mekong Delta boy, whose gasoline guzzling habit made headlines a few months ago, has been admitted to a local social welfare center. Huynh Ngoc Dung, director of Long An Province Social Welfare [...]
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August 15, 2011
Gasoline prices have been kept unchanged The Finance Ministry has issued a statement standing by its decision to keep prices of petroleum products unchanged, saying a price cut is only an option after import taxes are raised. The statement, jointly issued with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, came amidst public disappointment over the news [...]
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July 17, 2011
Expectations that lower global prices would benefit consumers have been belied A worker pumps petrol to a motorcycle at a gas station in Hanoi. Vietnam raised retail fuel prices in late March and has left them unchanged since. When the government decided in March that local petroleum prices will be adjusted in line with [...]
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July 15, 2011
Troubled Mekong Delta boy is brought to HCMC for testing and education (L to R) Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Quang, Ho Van Thao, a deaf and dumb boy who recently grabbed national headlines for his habit of stealing and drinking gasoline, his grandmother Ho Thi Sau and Nguyen Trong Tuong, a Vietnamese-Australian businessman, in front [...]
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