January 20, 2012
The Tet flower road will return to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City this Friday, highlighted by a giant dragon blowing blooms, as the city starts celebrating the Year of Dragon. With the Lunar New Year starting Monday next week, work to transform Nguyen Hue Street into a street of flowers began on January 10. The 12 meter long, [...]
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January 19, 2012
Vietnam on Thursday reported its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, as the virus also claimed the life of a toddler in Cambodia. Â Concerns about avian influenza have risen in the region after China in late December reported its first fatality from the H5N1 virus in 18 months, but [...]
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January 18, 2012
After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District. Vuon’s relatives reportedly set mines and shot at police officials and soldiers revoking their farmland under a [...]
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January 18, 2012
Nguyen Dinh Loi (R) and Nguyen Dinh Kien. Three men from northern Vietnam, convicted of rape and robbery ten years ago and released early 2010 , will have to continue their jail terms, according to a Hanoi People’s Court decision sent to them on Monday. The decision, signed on January 12, noted that they would [...]
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January 18, 2012
New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]
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January 16, 2012
Kieu Thi My Dung, 22, at Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a seven-hour operation on January 6. Two Vietnamese women who had massive tumors removed by a renowned US surgeon early this month will go under the knife again as they are recovering well, a local hospital said Saturday. According to the [...]
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January 15, 2012
Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]
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January 14, 2012
Nguyen Duy Hai at FV Hospital after his 82-kilo tumor was remove. The man whose 82-kilo tumor was removed last week is now stable, doctors at FV Hospital said. Nguyen Duy Hai was moved out of his intensive care room on Wednesday afternoon, six days after the headline-grabbing operation led by renown US plastic surgeon [...]
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January 9, 2012
Vietnam's No.1 junior tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien. Photo by Kha Hoa. Vietnam’s No.1 junior tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien has jumped from the 121st position to the 67th spot in the world’s juniors rankings, according to the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The 17-year-old Vietnamese boy’s jump in the rankings was made possible by good performances [...]
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January 9, 2012
Genocidal Khmer Rouge regime was backed by the US in ‘shameful foreign policy episode’ The skulls of Khmer Rouge victims are displayed in a memorial to the genocide at the Killing Fields Museum outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Vietnam had saved his country in the 1970s, not invaded [...]
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