Posts Tagged ‘ Nam Dinh ’

Where different feathers flock together 

November 29, 2011
Where different feathers flock together 

  Birds looking for fish at Xuan Thuy National Park in the northern province of Nam Dinh Grey skies. It had been raining for a few days and the skies were still cloudy. Grey skies are not traditionally associated with uplifting beauty, but we were gazing at a scene that rested very easy on the [...]

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Vietnam to be granted $3.5 mln to improve nature reserve management 

September 18, 2011
Vietnam to be granted $3.5 mln to improve nature reserve management 

A view of the Xuan Thuy National Park in Nam Dinh Province. The Global Environment Facility, a funder of projects to improve the global environment, will provide US$3.5 million for a project to improve management of nature reserves in Vietnam, the VnExpress newswire reported. The four-year project puts forward long-term measures to improve the capacity of officers [...]

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18 dead, 14 missing in typhoon Haima 

June 26, 2011
18 dead, 14 missing in typhoon Haima 

Typhoon Haima inundates paddy fields in Nam Dinh Province. Eighteen people were killed and 14 others are still missing as tropical storm Haima hit central and northern provinces, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention said Saturday. The typhoon left 60 people injured, according to the committee. The northern city of Hai Phong had [...]

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Bus driver gets 7 years' imprisonment for fatal accident 

June 4, 2011
Bus driver gets 7 years' imprisonment for fatal accident 

The bus was swept away by flood waters into the Lam river, killing 20 people on October 18, 2010. A court in central Vietnam on Thursday sentenced a bus driver to 7 years in jail for crashing the bus into a flooded river, which led to the deaths of 20 passengers last year. Tran Van [...]

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Driver faces 15 years in jail for Nam Dinh bus tragedy 

May 23, 2011
Driver faces 15 years in jail for Nam Dinh bus tragedy 

  Prosecutors in the north-central province of Ha Tinh have pressed charges against a bus driver for traffic law violations leading to the death of 20 passengers in a tragic accident last October.   Tran Van Truong, 36, of Nam Dinh Province, is charged with “violating regulations for road drivers causing serious consequences."   According [...]

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Ready to face the consequences 

April 16, 2011
Ready to face the consequences 

  Engineer who exposed flaws in cars produced by the Toyota Vietnam says he would do it again, if needed A Toyota Innova, a popular model in the country used widely by many taxi companies, runs on a street in Ho Chi Minh City. Toyota Motor Vietnam announced last week that it plans to recall [...]

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Festival fiascos 

March 25, 2011
Festival fiascos 

    People get crowded at the Seal Opening ritual held last month in the northern province of Nam Dinh For thousands of years, villages all over Vietnam have held cultural festivals, following the Lunar New Year. Many of the festivals are not only unique to Vietnam, but they are also unique to each village. [...]

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Rooms without views 

March 17, 2011
Rooms without views 

Workers at a construction site of an apartment project in Ho Chi Minh City Twenty-four-year-old Nguyen Thi Hoa lives in the slums of Kim Chung Commune in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District along with many other low-income workers from nearby industrial parks. The Hai Duong native moved to this place two years ago after getting a [...]

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Tết Market 

January 15, 2011
Tết Market 

Bronze work at Chợ Viềng, an annual Tết market in the northern province of Nam Dinh. The approach of T ế t (Lunar New Year) is marked by an abundance of decorations in the street and traditional food in the shops. You can almost smell the coming Lunar New Year. For Vietnamese people, Tết is [...]

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Disquiet on a tranquil front 

November 22, 2010
Disquiet on a tranquil front 

  Amidst serene beauty, a national park is losing its treasures Taking flight: White storks at the Xuan Thuy National Park in Nam Dinh Province, 150 kilometers southwest of Hanoi. Many flora and fauna species at the park are said to be on the verge of extinction. Squawk The tranquility of a world at repose [...]

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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...