January 22, 2012
A teenage duck farmer in southern Vietnam has been killed by the bird flu virus this month, a doctor said at a meeting with Ho Chi Minh City Health Department Wednesday. Le Van N. of Hau Giang Province in the Mekong Delta was hospitalized January 10 with high fever and fatigue but died a day [...]
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January 11, 2012
An Irrawaddy dolphin A group of the precious dolphin species Irrawaddy has been spotted at Kien Giang biosphere reserve in southern Vietnam. The group of around 20 dolphins were found around the Ba Lua islands, completely separated from other Irrawady groups at Thailand’s coastal lake Songkhla and in the Mekong River upstream, news website VietNamNet [...]
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December 30, 2011
A Ho Chi Minh City court on Friday sentenced five men to death for joining a 14-strong gang to trade 7 kilograms of heroin. Nguyen Xuan Dan, Vo Anh Tuan, Vo Tien Thang, Luu Hoang Thao and Hoang Phung Bac Son received the death penalty on charges of “illegal trade of drugs.” Truong Van Hoa, [...]
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December 17, 2011
Australian students build a house for a poor man in Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam early December It seems like an unusual way for Australian teenagers to spend money they earned from part-time jobs, but 13 of them recently used their savings to attend special tours in southern Vietnam where they built houses [...]
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December 3, 2011
Fourth graders with bruised butts caused by their teacher's beating in southern Vietnam. Several fourth graders in southern Vietnam have been sent to the hospital to have their injuries checked, after there were accusations that a teacher had beaten them at school. Â Parents of seven boys from Binh Phuoc Province, around 80 kilometers from [...]
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November 17, 2011
Nguyen Van Men, 62, and his wife, at a southern Vietnam hospital where he and three others were sent as they fell unconscious after drinking rice wine Four people were hospitalized in southern Vietnam on Tuesday after finishing 10 liters of rice wine at a family party.  The four men are relatives from An [...]
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November 14, 2011
The front of a truck, one of the nine vehicles hit by another truck in southern Vietnam on Saturday. Three people including two teenagers were killed in southern Vietnam on Saturday as a truck hit nine vehicles. The southbound truck from Hanoi hit another truck on National Highway 1A across Dong Nai Province that neighbors [...]
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November 7, 2011
A woman's skeleton found almost intact at a tomb in Dong Nai Province is exhibited at an announcement meeting held Friday Cultural authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai Friday announced their findings about an ancient tomb that was found with little damage. Â Carbon analysis estimates the tomb complex to have been built [...]
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November 3, 2011
The front door of Dr Nguyen Duy Tu's house in Ca Mau Province was broken by a crowd furious over a teenage girl's death. Police in the southern province of Ca Mau have asked prosecutors to charge 34 people for attacking local doctors’ houses in protest of their irresponsibility in the death of a 17-year-old [...]
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August 22, 2011
Scientists say two upcoming dam projects could badly damage the Cat Tien National Park ecosystem. The investor of two controversial hydropower projects planned near a protected jungle in southern Vietnam has admitted the dams would affect the jungle’s biodiversity, but maintained that they are needed to slake Vietnam’s thirst for energy. Bui Phap, board chairman [...]
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