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Vietnamese athlete fined for making bomb threat 

December 30, 2011
Vietnamese athlete fined for making bomb threat 

Cao Hong Son, a disabled athelete, has been fined US$950 for making a bomb threat at the Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat Airport. A man was fined Thursday VND20 million (US$950) for making a bomb threat when he was taking a flight to a sporting event for athletes with physical disabilities in Indonesia. Cao [...]

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Newspaper calls for fresh probe into journalist’s murder 

December 6, 2011
Newspaper calls for fresh probe into journalist’s murder 

Tran Thuy Lieu (L), the wife of reporter Le Hoang Hung, and her daughter, at his funeral. The newspaper Hung used to work for said it suspects Hung’s wife is not the only culprit in his death. A Vietnamese newspaper has asked the nation’s supreme court, prosecutors and police to launch fresh investigations into the murder [...]

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Vietnam’s Bubble Woman suffers tumor misery 

December 5, 2011
Vietnam’s Bubble Woman suffers tumor misery 

Lumps cover the face of Thach Thi Sa Ly. (Photo: Lao Dong) A 35-year-old woman in a poor, rural village in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang seems threatening to strangers because of her densely covered bubble-like lumps, Lao Dong newspaper reported. Thousands of small tumors are covering Thach Thi Sa Ly’s body, including her [...]

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Vietnamese photographer receives more int'l awards 

October 14, 2011
Vietnamese photographer receives more int'l awards 

  Award-winning photo Khoanh khac quyet dinh (decisive moment) by Lao Dong newspaper photographer Tran Viet Van Lao Dong (Labor) newspaper photographer Tran Viet Van has won the Australian international photo contest People and Planet for his image Khoanh khac quyet dinh (decisive moment). Khoanh khac quyet dinh, featuring monks in the southern province of [...]

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Bomb explodes in whistleblower’s house 

September 22, 2011
Bomb explodes in whistleblower’s house 

Nguyen Van Thanh has been known as an active whistleblower in Nghe An. (Photo: Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper) A handmade bomb exploded on Friday inside the house of a former prosecutor who has been honored as an active anti-corruption whistleblower in central Vietnam, but there was no casualty, police said. The bomb exploded at around 11 [...]

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Dancers in the dark 

August 30, 2011
Dancers in the dark 

    A scene in ‘Story of the shoes,’ a series of vignettes that told the real-life stories of the dancers involved Linh Nga and Thuy Chi, possibly the two best Vietnamese dancers of their generation, each spent over ten years training in China before becoming the renowned artists and choreographers they are today. Both [...]

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‘Ignorant’ filmmaker brings Agent Orange plight to light 

August 28, 2011
‘Ignorant’ filmmaker brings Agent Orange plight to light 

John Trinh, a Vietnamese American filmmaker whose film about Agent Orange victims in Vietnam has been screened at 20 international film festivals. The Vietnam War raged when John Trinh, then Trinh Long Hoang, was growing up in Vietnam. But he knew nothing about its most insidious impacts until three decades after it ended in 1975. [...]

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Vietnam lags behind as Thailand exploits regional road tourism 

August 13, 2011
Vietnam lags behind as Thailand exploits regional road tourism 

Tourists use a hanging bridge to cross a river in Bangkok, Thailand A road tour between Vietnam, Laos and Thailand has been attracting more tourists to the countries since a bridge was launched across the Mekong River in December 2006.   But the country that has exploited its potentials most, unsurprisingly, is Thailand, which has for long [...]

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Blood-sucking bugs return to Vietnam capital 

July 21, 2011
Blood-sucking bugs return to Vietnam capital 

"Assasin bugs" (riatoma rubrofassiata), like this one in Vietnam, have been known to feed on human blood, but they are not fatal – though their bites do cause severe irritation and itching in their human victims. At least seven nests of the blood-sucking bugs that caused a stir in Vietnam last year have been found [...]

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Vietnam announces wind power subsidies, investors still wary 

July 12, 2011
Vietnam announces wind power subsidies, investors still wary 

  The Vietnamese government will provide subsidies to wind power projects and make purchases at fixed prices as it strives to develop the renewable energy industry.   A decision approved by the Prime Minister on June 29 requires the country’s power monopoly Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to buy all the power output of wind power [...]

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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...