July 3, 2011
Waving the Vietnamese flag on the top of Indochina’s tallest peak. Since my student days, I’d cherished a dream of climbing the 3,143 meters Mount Fansipan in Lao Cai in Vietnam’s far northwest. Yet it took me several years to muster the courage and build up the confidence I would need to tackle Indochina’s tallest [...]
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July 2, 2011
Re: It’s the traffic, stupid! (May 6-12 issue No.84) This is an interesting and burning issue in Vietnam. I moved to this country from San Jose, California. I have lived here now for two years. One thing I learned is that that traffic rules and traffic culture do not exist in Vietnam. I noticed [...]
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February 8, 2011
A Sudanese man shows the palms of his hands after he dipped them in the blood of a sacrificial cow as he and others celebrate the results of the January referendum on the secession of southern Sudan from the north in the capital Khartoum. Southern Sudan was well on track to become the world’s newest [...]
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February 8, 2010
The Ministry of Transport has announced it will temporarily open a major expressway through Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of Long An and Tien Giang in the Mekong Delta from February 3 onwards. The temporary operation of the 40-kilometer speedway, also known as HCMC-Trung Luong Highway, is scheduled to be completed by the [...]
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October 15, 2009
Police will be pulling over bus drivers across the nation as part of a Ministry of Public Security inspection of bus safety. The overturned bus at the roadside of the National Road 12 in Dien Bien Province. One passenger was killed in the accident.Some 5,500 others have been seriously injured in the accidents, a prime [...]
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October 15, 2009
The overturned bus at the roadside of the National Road 12 in Dien Bien Province. One passenger was killed in the accident. Police will be pulling over bus drivers across the nation as part of a Ministry of Public Security inspection of bus safety prompted by soaring traffic accident death rates â“ 8,200 this year. [...]
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July 9, 2009
A stretch of Nguyen Huu Canh Street in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs Binh Thanh District is already crumbling and muddy after being repaved by the Construction Corporation No. 1 earlier this year Driving across Ho Chi Minh City has never been more hazardous as major streets have yet to be properly repaved after a city-wide [...]
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July 7, 2009
Trees illegally cut down in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai Local authorities have built a new road that lends suspicious help to illegal loggers smuggling timber in central Vietnam, Lao Dong (Labor) newspaper reported over the weekend. The road runs through a protected forest upstream of the Phu Ninh Reservoir in the central [...]
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April 24, 2009
Police in Khanh Hoa Province inspect a bus for illegal drugs. Many truck and bus drivers say they take drugs to overcome the boredom of long journeys. Last Wednesday a container truck stopped at a diner on National Road 1A in the southern province of Dong Nai, 35 km to the northeast of Ho Chi [...]
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April 7, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Dr Vu Van Bang has dedicated his career to proving the connection between the earth’s radiation and fengshui. He tells what can be done to expel bad energy from your home.What is the earth’s radiation?The earth’s surface emits heat radiation, which varies according to volcanic, biological or human activity and land use [...]
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