Posts Tagged ‘ Motorbike ’

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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Motorbike burns after refill in central Vietnam 

January 13, 2012
Motorbike burns after refill in central Vietnam 

A burnt motorbike at a gas station in Thua Thien-Hue Province on January 13   A Yamaha motorbike caught fire right after being refilled at a gas station in central Vietnam on Friday. No one was injured in the accident. Many people around the gas station in Thua Thien-Hue Province panicked because they were afraid [...]

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Vietnam's mysterious motorbike fires rage on 

January 9, 2012
Vietnam's mysterious motorbike fires rage on 

  Two Honda motorbikes have become the latest victims of mysterious fires that have burned more than 90 vehicles across Vietnam since last year. One of the new cases happened in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue right after Hoang Thi Mai Tram left Hue Central Hospital, where she works, on Thursday. Tram said she [...]

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Suspected fuel passes inspection, Vietnam vehicular fires remain unsolved 

December 31, 2011
Suspected fuel passes inspection, Vietnam vehicular fires remain unsolved 

A motorbike on fire in Hanoi on October 12 Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Tran Van Vinh, deputy chief of the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, as saying [...]

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Rash of vehicular fires remains a mystery: ministry 

December 25, 2011
Rash of vehicular fires remains a mystery: ministry 

  Police are struggling to pinpoint what has caused the explosive fires that have recently plagued cars and motorbikes in Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security said. In a letter responding to Thanh Nien’s questioning the ministry’s delay in resolving the cases, Pham Van Sinh, deputy chief of the ministry’s office, said in many cases, vehicle owners did not report incidents to police [...]

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Vroom… Boom! 

December 19, 2011
Vroom… Boom! 

  Mysterious motorbike fires, explosion draw attention to the lack of qualified mechanics and potentially dangerous modifications Wreckage of a motorbike that caught fire on December 12 in Hanoi Five-year-old Nguyen Khanh Van died on Tuesday (December 13), becoming the latest victim of a series of unexplained motorbike accidents where the vehicles have caught fire, [...]

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Thanh Hoa police catch traffic violators’ wheel with club 

December 10, 2011
Thanh Hoa police catch traffic violators’ wheel with club 

A still from a video clip shows a club stuck in the front wheel of a motorbike. A street user has posted a video clip on YouTube that accuses traffic police officers in the central province of Thanh Hoa of throwing a club into the motorbike wheel of traffic violators to stop them, online newspaper [...]

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No explosive found in northern Vietnam's deadly bike explosion 

December 9, 2011
No explosive found in northern Vietnam's deadly bike explosion 

A bike on fire after an explosion on December 1 that killed a woman and injured a child in the northern province of Bac Ninh. No traces of explosives were found in the motorbike explosion that killed a pregnant woman and critically injured her daughter in northern Vietnam last week, a news website quoted a local official [...]

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Moral breakdown 

November 21, 2011
Moral breakdown 

  Psychologists warn increasing violence among local youth indicates modern life in crisis An image extracted from online video footage depicting a schoolgirl in Hai Phong City brutally attacked by her schoolmates Nguyen Viet Cuong had no idea that yelling at one of his students would effectively sign his 8-year-old son’s death warrant. When he [...]

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Schoolgirls crash motorbike into police, five injured 

November 18, 2011
Schoolgirls crash motorbike into police, five injured 

The girls' motorbike and police at the accident scene Three schoolgirls on a motorbike crashed into a police patrol motorbike, seriously injuring themselves and two traffic police officers on a road in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Thursday. Nguyen Thi My Linh, Le Thi Hong Phuong and Nguyen Huynh Kim Ngan, all [...]

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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...