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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September 23, 2011
Spurned in two previous attempts, I used some cheap psychology to conquer a unique mountain After reaching the top of Da Bia Mountain, some lie down exhausted while others try to decipher the words on rocks believed to be etched by King Le Thanh Tong in 1471 For local residents, it has always been [...]
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August 2, 2011
Traditional boat racing in Ninh Thuan Province's Ca Na Beach. Photo by Van Truong. A "coastal villages festival" began Sunday in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan Province to promote the sea tourism industry, Nguoi Lao Dong reported. The festival, part of the National Year of Coastal Tourism in the South-Central Regions program, gathers the [...]
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July 23, 2011
As China and ASEAN inch closer to a goodwill declaration on the East Sea, experts doubt that it will ease tensions Vietnamese fishermen in the East Sea. Experts have called a recent agreement to implement a regional declaration of goodwill a step toward resolving growing tensions in the East Sea. Experts have called a [...]
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July 13, 2011
Petrovietnam Insurance Co, the insurance arm of Vietnam’s state oil and gas group Petrovietnam, said on Wednesday it was in talks to sell a stake to a strategic investor, but did not name the investor. Oman Investment Fund owns 12.6 percent in the Hanoi-based firm, which holds a monopoly on Vietnam’s energy insurance market. [...]
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July 2, 2011
International experts urge action to back rhetoric as China and Vietnam pledge to solve East Sea disputes peacefully Sixty-two-year old Nguyen Van Ai of the central Binh Dinh Province prepares for an offshore fishing trip. Ai owns four large fishing boats and together with six sons, two sons-in-law and 75 other fishermen, head out [...]
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June 22, 2011
Vietnam and the United States have jointly called for freedom of navigation and rejected the use of force in the East Sea, amid simmering tensions between Beijing and its neighbors. After talks in Washington, the two countries said that "the maintenance of peace, stability, safety and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea [...]
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June 21, 2011
A Royal Air Force Tornado aircraft prepares to land at RAF Marham, Norfolk. The Libyan government said on Monday 19 civilians were killed in a NATO air strike on the home of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s top officials, a day after NATO admitted killing civilians in a separate aerial attack. Libyan officials took reporters to [...]
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May 31, 2011
This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan [...]
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May 27, 2011
Drowning deaths persist amid a lack of swimming courses  A mother taking her child to school on a homemade raft in the south-central province of Phu Yen Last February, Nguyen Van Ro stepped into the hold of his boat as it floated down the So Thuong River in the south-central province of Phu Yen. [...]
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