January 22, 2012
Hoang Thi Tien at a police station. She has been charged with murder after allegedly poisoning her husband and two friends with "heartbreak grass". Police in the northeastern province of Ha Giang on Friday pressed murder charges against a woman who allegedly fatally poisoned her husband and his two friends with a toxic shrub known as [...]
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January 16, 2012
The large rotted tree which fell on a tent where students of Nguyen Dinh Chieu High School were camping in Tien Giang Province on Saturday. Nine high school students were injured Saturday after a tree fell on a tent where they were camping in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper [...]
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December 23, 2011
Cao Vu Cuong (L), a former police officer, was sentenced to seven years for taking part in a luxury car smuggling ring. (Photo: VnExpress) The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced a former police officer to seven years in jail for taking part in a luxury car smuggling ring, online newspaper VnExpress reported. Cao Vu Cuong, the [...]
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December 12, 2011
More than 200,000 students quit school every year, threatening dire consequences for Vietnam’s human-resource base Two shoeshine boys in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh San had to quit secondary school and move to Ho Chi Minh City two years ago to wash dishes at his aunt’s eatery to earn money and support [...]
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December 9, 2011
There are many factors responsible for this, but the key reasons are: poor infrastructure, poor tourism promotion; and weak cooperation between travel agents and service providers. These combine to make tour prices in Vietnam less competitive than those in other countries, Nguyen Cong Hoan, vice director of travel agent Hanoi Redtour, told Thanh Nien [...]
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December 4, 2011
Bay Nui ox races are the highlight of the 5th Khmer Festival in An Giang Province The triennial cultural, sports and tourism festival of southern Khmer ethnic people will open tonight in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. The five-day festival, to be held at the Xuan Bien Industrial Park, Tinh Bien District, [...]
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December 2, 2011
The valuable wooden house in Bac Giang Province in northern Vietnam An old wooden house in Vietnam northern province of Bac Giang has been offered VND70 billion (US$3.33 million).  The house is said to have been built with timber from sua (Dalbergia tonkinensis prain), an endangered species which has been banned from commercial use.  [...]
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November 28, 2011
The truck damaged in two explosions in the northern province of Bac Giang Local agencies in the northern province of Bac Giang are investigating two continuous explosions that went off on a truck Friday, the VnExpress newswire reported. The blasts happened early Friday morning after 29-year-old Tran Thanh Nghi had parked the truck in front of [...]
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November 21, 2011
Pu Mat National Park and the Pu Huong and Pu Hoat nature reserves are the core zones of the UNESCO-recognized Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, at 1.3 million hectares the largest such reserve in Southeast Asia. The park, whose name means high slope in the language of the Thai tribe, is located in the [...]
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November 14, 2011
A local worker prepares before moving the 1,500 ton Van Linh Pagoda on Cam Mountain in An Giang Province 20 meters backward and simultaneously turning it 90 degrees. They call him a genie, but Do Quoc Khanh waves it off, saying there is no magic to his work. “As soon as all the procedures [...]
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