Posts Tagged ‘ His Brother ’

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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Man arrested for killing doctor after brother dies at hospital 

August 17, 2011
Man arrested for killing doctor after brother dies at hospital 

Dr Ngo Duy Hoan, who was stabbed by Nguyen Van Dung, has recovered. (Photo: VnExpress) Police in the northern province of Thai Binh arrested a young man Tuesday for fatally stabbing a doctor, and injuring another, after his brother was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Nguyen Van Dung, 18, of Vu Thu District was [...]

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Clear and present danger 

July 4, 2011
Clear and present danger 

  Soldiers and civilians risk their lives in removing unexploded bombs that continue to kill thousands decades after the Vietnam War Soldiers remove an unexploded bomb out of a rice field in the Mekong Delta in April Nguyen Van Cuong quit his job as bomb deactivator two years ago, but constantly thinks of the “meaningful [...]

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Drowning in sorrow 

June 1, 2011
Drowning in sorrow 

Forty-year-old Chinese Guo Liangcai lost his wife, children, two siblings and friends in a boat accident last Friday in the southern province of Binh Duong. Guo Liangcai’s voice never stopped quavering. “I don’t know how I will handle the truth,” he told Thanh Nien Weekly over the phone last Tuesday. The 40-year-old Chinese businessman spoke [...]

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Raul Castro succeeds Fidel as Communist Party chief 

April 19, 2011
Raul Castro succeeds Fidel as Communist Party chief 

Cuban President Raul Castro delivers a speech during the opening session of the Sixth Communist Party Congress at the Convention Palace in Havana on April 16, 2011. Cuban President Raul Castro has been appointed head of the ruling Communist Party, succeeding his elder brother, revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, who held the post since the party’s [...]

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Chew on this

January 3, 2010
Chew on this

The mastication of betel and areca nut, a dying custom, is a way of life in one small village. For thousands of years, it has been customary to offer guests betel leaves and areca nuts and lime paste at weddings, feasts and on various other occasions in several Asian countries including India, Thailand and Laos.In [...]

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U.S. Senator Edward M Kennedy dies at 77

August 26, 2009
U.S. Senator Edward M Kennedy dies at 77

U.S. Senator. Edward M. Kennedy who was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in May 2008 died Wednesday. He was 77 years old. U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) reacts after President Barack Obama signed H.R. 1388, the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, at the SEED Public Charter School in Washington, April 21, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters, [...]

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Tales of the five silver medalists at IPhO

July 24, 2009
Tales of the five silver medalists at IPhO

These five Vietnamese golden boys were born into different families in different living conditions and live in different localities. However, they all won silver medals at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO). From left: Nguyen Phan Minh, Pham Van Quyen, Nguyen Dinh Tung, Pham Thanh Long and Vu Hong AnhVietnam’s IPhO’s boys all touched down at [...]

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Satisfy the animal

May 17, 2009
Satisfy the animal

Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) is famous for his angry, conflicted Wolverine character in the X-men movies Wolverine gives us our action fix but is short on drama. Jimmy Creed and his brother Victor are mutants. Though they look like normal human beings, they have superhuman strength and animal senses that make them fierce killers. Employed by [...]

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Antarctica flies the Vietnamese flag

February 19, 2009
Antarctica flies the Vietnamese flag

Nguyen Trong Hien stands in Antarctica before a row of national flags that include Vietnam’s An expatriate Vietnamese scientist working for NASA, planted Vietnam’s national flag in Antarctica 15 years ago. In September 1994, on the second of his three trips to the Antarctic, Dr. Nguyen Trong Hien added a Vietnamese flag he had made [...]

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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...