December 23, 2011
Iraqi security forces inspect the site of the bomb attack in Baghdad’s Shaab District, northern Baghdad, December 22, 2011. A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic faultlines. The [...]
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October 21, 2011
 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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July 16, 2011
Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]
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April 25, 2011
Careless driving, disregard for the law and weak implementation combine to kill increasing numbers of people in road traffic accidents The wrecked vehicles in an accident involving a bus and a freezer truck on April 18 in the north-central province of Ha Tinh that killed three and injured twenty others Five-year-old Ly thinks her [...]
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December 29, 2009
PM Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the Viet Nam Seaport Development Master Plan, which calls for total investment of between VND360trill and VND440tril to 2020. Seaports building decisions will be based on local natural conditions, the need for economic development and interaction with nearby ports.The plan, which was submitted to the Government in June, aims [...]
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December 21, 2009
Farmers in Yen Phong District, Bac Ninh Province, till paddy fields ahead of the upcoming rice season, as water is released from local reservoirs for irrigation.LookAtVietnam – About two billion cubic metres of water will be released from reservoirs to save winter-spring crops in northern regions from looming drought.According to the plan agreed between the [...]
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December 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Looking at the Red River’s dry bed, Tran Van Dien felt depressed thinking about his cargo boat which was moored at the dock for the last few days. A view of the Red River which has dwindled to its lowest level in 107 years because of the dire effects of El Nino.“The river [...]
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December 19, 2009
A view of the Red River which has dwindled to its lowest level in 107 years because of the dire effects of El Nino Looking at the Red Riverâs dry bed, Tran Van Dien felt depressed thinking about his cargo boat which was moored at the dock for the last few days. âThe river is [...]
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December 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Avian flu cases (A/H5N1) have been reported in the provinces of Thai Nguyen and Ca Mau, where hundreds of chickens have died. The southern province of Ca Mau and Thai Nguyen Province in the north have set up quarantine stations in order to strictly check the transporting and slaughtering of chickens.Hoang Van Nam, [...]
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December 5, 2009
Since November the water level in the Red River has reduced to a record low level for the last 107 years, said a senior official from the National Hydrometeorologic Forecast Centre. The lowest level that experts measured is 0.76m on November 18. The water level later reached 1.3m on the morning of December 3. Tinh said that [...]
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