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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December 3, 2011
Fourth graders with bruised butts caused by their teacher's beating in southern Vietnam. Several fourth graders in southern Vietnam have been sent to the hospital to have their injuries checked, after there were accusations that a teacher had beaten them at school. Â Parents of seven boys from Binh Phuoc Province, around 80 kilometers from [...]
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November 19, 2011
Workers on strike at a Ho Chi Minh City-based company. A bill on demonstration has sparked controversy at the Vietnam National Assembly’s sitting on Thursday, as some lawmakers find the law unnecessary, while others disagree. Hoang Huu Phuoc, a member of the legislature from Ho Chi Minh City, proposed the National Assembly not introduce the Law on [...]
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November 19, 2011
Vietnamese athletes earned 12 gold medals at the SEA Games on Wednesday, raising the total to 56 golds and jumping to second place behind hosts Indonesia. The 12 gold medals on Wednesday came in swimming, billiards, vovinam, free style wrestling, shooting, chess and rowing. Billiards player Ma Minh Cam closed the day with a [...]
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October 16, 2011
With paltry incomes hardly enough to scrape by on, poor and desperate workers are being brutalized by thieves, loan sharks, swindlers and other criminals Factory workers change shifts at an industrial park in Vietnam. Many workers at industrial parks in Binh Duong Province’s Ben Cat District have fallen victims to a variety of crimes [...]
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August 3, 2011
Workers from the Phuoc Minh Limited Company waiting for buses home after the explosion. A worker was killed in an explosion at a private gold mine in the central province of Quang Nam Saturday, local police said. The blast occurred in a workers’ tent at the Bai Muoi gold mine in Phuoc Thanh Commune, Phuoc Son District. Quang Van [...]
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July 24, 2011
With hydropower running amok in this country, local critics of neighboring dam projects are throwing stones in a glass house A view of the Cat Tien National Park, where two planned hydropower projects, if built, would encroach on around 140 hectares of forest. Conservationists fear that the two planned dams would totally transform the [...]
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July 23, 2011
Thanh Chiem in Quang Nam Province used to be an important administrative, political, economic and cultural center. Today only a thriving of copper casting industry remains. The temple dedicated to the founders of Thanh Chiem Village In its glory days, the town in what is now Dien Phuong Commune, Dien Ban District was called [...]
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July 20, 2011
Workers fix cracks on Thuan Phuoc Bridge in Da Nang. Vietnam’s longest and most modern suspension bridge in Da Nang City has developed cracks and pot holes in many places just two years after it opened, the Saigon Tiep Thi reported Monday. Â Thuan Phuoc Bridge, which was built at a cost of nearly VND1 [...]
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July 19, 2011
The male gaur (Bos gaurus) grazes with a cow near a village of the Raglay ethnic people in Ninh Thuan Province’s Phuoc Binh National Park. A large gaur grazing near a residential area alongside domestic cows in Ninh Thuan Province offers a unique opportunity for extensive research and better conservation of the endangered species, [...]
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