Posts Tagged ‘ Liters ’

Fuel to the fire 

January 15, 2012
Fuel to the fire 

  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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Get mean and show it 

June 19, 2011
Get mean and show it 

  No headway can be made against drinking and driving if punitive measures are not meted out strictly and obviously Vu The Bang, 65, of Binh Phuoc Province’s Dong Phu District crashed into a parking truck in drunk condition and was killed on the spot in an accident last June. The government is discussing a [...]

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Ale and hearty 

June 1, 2011
Ale and hearty 

  Breweries savor the market fizz A promo model at a booth set up by local beer maker Sabeco at a beverage fair in Hanoi. With its 86 million population, tropical climate and beer-lovers, Vietnam is a booming beer market. If one was asked to single out one industry with a great growth potential in [...]

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Germany’s Bitburger enters local premium beer market

August 18, 2009
Germany’s Bitburger enters local premium beer market

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s beer market has seen the arrival of a new premium brand from one of the top German producers, Bitburger. Bitburger launched its product in Hanoi late last week and announced its selection of local firm Kinh Bac Investment and Trading Joint-stock Co., or KBT, as a strategic partner and exclusive distributor for [...]

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Doctor turns glass medical waste into paving stones

July 23, 2009

Dr. Nguyen Hieu Hiep from the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho says his way of treating glass medical waste is much cheaper and environment-friendly than incinerating it. The innovative director of the city’s Thoi Lai District Hospital wants to enter a new invention he is working on – to turn glass medical waste into [...]

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Transport firm found siphoning off jet fuel

June 25, 2009

Aviation fuel supplier Vietnam Air Petrol Company (Vinapco) has found tankers of a contracted transportation company stealing fuel, it announced Wednesday. The company discovered the theft during a three-day inspection of a store in Ho Chi Minh City.Vinapco inspectors Wednesday caught red-handed a driver of Toan Dat Enterprise, Hoang Van Loc, extracting 10 liters of [...]

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HCMC suspends five more bottled water companies

June 4, 2009
HCMC suspends five more bottled water companies

The Ho Chi Minh City Health Department Wednesday suspended operations at five more bottled water companies found selling unsafe water. The suspended brands include: Seahore (21 liter bottles) of the Hong Quan Company bottled on May 4; Aquavina (21 liters) of the Viet Thuong Company bottled on May 19; Pongour (21 liters) of the Mai [...]

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Drunk drivers involved in 10% of traffic crashes: experts

April 28, 2009
Drunk drivers involved in 10% of traffic crashes: experts

LookAtVietnam – Drunk driving cases account for more than 10% of the country’s traffic accidents which kill around 12,000 people a year, show a recent survey. Drunk driving cases account for more than 10% of the country’s traffic accidents.The National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) in cooperation with the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), the Ministry [...]

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Da Lat scrambles to ensure water supply for holiday

April 11, 2009
Da Lat scrambles to ensure water supply for holiday

Dredging of the Chien Thang Lake, one of the main sources of tap water for Da Lat, is underway. Lam Dong authorities have asked resort town’s major water supplier to get a new plant operational by April 29 at the latest to ensure sufficient supply during the coming national holidays. The town, in the Central [...]

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Police bust illegal factory in forest raid

March 6, 2009
Police bust illegal factory in forest raid

Hundreds of drums of used lubricant to be recycled at an illegal factory raided by police Thursday in Quang Ngai Province Environmental police in the central province of Quang Ngai shutdown an illegal industrial lubricant plant polluting the forests of Dat Mountain Thursday. The illegal facility, situated in an acacia forest in Tu Nghia District, [...]

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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...