January 17, 2012
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has launched an investigation into an incident in which a Vietnam Airlines passenger airplane nearly collided with one from Jetstar Pacific last month. The incident happened near Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on the afternoon of December 19, when the northbound Vietnam Airlines plane was taking [...]
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December 31, 2011
 Beautiful stalactites and stalagmites inside the new cave in Bac Kan Province Caves always carry an aura of mystery and wonder about them. We were reminded of that very strongly when we visited a newly found cave in the northern province of Bac Kan. The stalactites and stalagmites of different shapes and colors were [...]
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December 23, 2011
A man reenacts the incident when the branch 2 meters long hit and killed another in Nghe An Province on Tuesday. A crane truck crashed into a tree on the street in north central Vietnam Tuesday, causing a broken branch to hit and kill a man. Vo Huy Duc, 61, was killed on the spot as [...]
Tags: branch, Hung Vinh, killed, meters, News Website, The tree, The Truck, Truck
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December 19, 2011
A woman looks up at the 33-floor building where her colleagues were trapped by a fire in Hanoi Thursday. She was among 40 workers rescued by the local fire deparment. The 33-floor Hanoi building that caught fire Thursday, injuring 11, failed to meet fire and safety regulations, an official told Thanh Nien Friday. To Xuan [...]
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December 6, 2011
Gymnast Pham Phuoc Hung is expected to win 2012 Olympic berths for Vietnam Vietnam has halved its target for Olympic berths in London next year to 10 after reconsidering its athletes’ qualifying chances. According to Hoang Vinh Giang, vice chairman and general secretary of the Vietnamese Olympic Committee, Vietnam has won five berths through badminton [...]
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November 19, 2011
The fact that Bangkok is struggling with the worst flooding in at least half a century should be a major wake up call for Vietnamese authorities. Ho Chi Minh City is almost in the same position as the Thai capital. Just like Bangkok, the southern metro is located downstream of a big river, the [...]
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November 16, 2011
A 96-year-old man says he is close to ending a treasure hunt that has lasted well over 50 years Tran Van Tiep, 96, and his youngest son Tran Phuong Hong. Tiep has obtained permission from Binh Thuan Province authorities to search for the 4,000 tons of gold treasure he believed to be hidden in [...]
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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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October 29, 2011
 A corner of Lake Nui Mot Nui Mot was a small lake nestling in a valley of the An Truong Mountains until the late 1970s, when a dam was built downstream to create a 1,200-hectare irrigation reservoir that snakes its way back through the high country. Still called Nui Mot, the largest and prettiest [...]
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October 16, 2011
Villagers built a wooden bridge in a flooded temple complex in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok October 16, 2011. Floods swamped another industrial estate in central Thailand on Sunday and threatened a bigger one just outside the capital, Bangkok, which has so far escaped the worst despite heavy monsoon rain and water streaming [...]
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