January 9, 2012
A Vietnam Airlines aircraft on Friday was forced to make a temporary landing at the airport of Thua Thien-Hue Province as another Air Mekong aircraft blocked the runway at its original destination - the Da Nang Airport. At around 12:30 p.m., the Air Mekong plane, which was on the way from Buon Ma Thuot to Hanoi, made [...]
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December 30, 2011
 Bún nÆ°á»c kèn (rice vermicelli and curried fish soup) is one of the most popular dishes in the Mekong Delta Coming to Mekong Delta in the south in Vietnam, visitors will recognize the river region’s culture deepened into every breath of locals, who are humble and honest. The cuisine is also as humble as [...]
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December 17, 2011
Australian students build a house for a poor man in Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam early December It seems like an unusual way for Australian teenagers to spend money they earned from part-time jobs, but 13 of them recently used their savings to attend special tours in southern Vietnam where they built houses [...]
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December 14, 2011
This photo, provided by the WWF, shows a self-cloning lizard (Leiolepis ngovantrii), which reproduces via cloning without the need for males. Scientists identify a new species every two days in the Greater Mekong region, the WWF said on December 12, in a report detailing 2010’s more unusual finds such as a leaf warbler and [...]
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December 10, 2011
A file photo taken last July shows trucks and heavy machinery taking part in road work at the Xayaburi dam construction site in Xayaburi Province, Laos. Construction of the US$3.8-billion Xayaburi dam will be suspended pending further impact studies to be done by Japan, the four countries that share the lower reaches of the [...]
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December 5, 2011
Five private airlines have been licensed in Vietnam since 2007, but each of them is struggling to take off, with one having already crash-landed. Air Mekong operates flights while VietJet Air is expected to commence services late this December after many delays. But the others are finding it hard to launch or, in the [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnam will be the first of four member nations to take over gauging stations on the Mekong River from the Mekong River Commission (MRC)’s Secretariat next January, the government’s website reported Wednesday. According to the website, the stations belong to the project of Hydrological Cycle Observing System that the Secretariat introduced at a national [...]
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November 7, 2011
Almost all the victims of severe flooding in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta were children, the United Nations said on Monday, as the official death toll climbed to 78. The UN said 65 children under the age of 16 were among those killed by widespread flooding that has inundated much of south and central Vietnam. "The [...]
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October 22, 2011
A photo taken on October 18 shows houses submerged by flood waters in Tan Hoa District, Quang Binh Province Devastating floods in Vietnam’s central and southern regions have killed at least 59 people and forced thousands of people to flee their homes, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control reported Wednesday. Seasonal flooding [...]
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October 7, 2011
Doctors have yet to identify what prompted a rapid-aging process in 23-year-old woman who now looks 70 Nguyen Thi Phuong (L), 26, looks about 50 years her senior due to a strange rapid-aging affliction that began in 2008 Nguyen Thanh Tuyen’s love for his wife never faded as he watched her youthful beauty crumble [...]
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