January 25, 2012
Three people were killed and one seriously injured Saturday after a speeding bus crashed into two motorbikes on a highway in the south central province of Binh Thuan. Local police said the passenger bus, driven by Luong Hung Dung, 31, was traveling from Phan Thiet City in Binh Thuan Province to Quang Ngai Province [...]
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January 12, 2012
UXOs found in Quang Tri Province in north-central Vietnam More than one fifth of Vietnam’s total area is contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO) and it woud take 300 years to complete decontamination at the current pace, an official said.  However, concerned authorities are looking to reduce the period to 100 years, said major general Pham Quang [...]
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January 9, 2012
Authorities in the northern province of Quang Ninh have asked that Ha Long Bay boats be painted white, saying the change befits the bay’s recent international recognition. A report Friday in VnExpress said, under the decision issued on Thursday by Quang Ninh’s People’s Committee, all tourist boats, except dragon boats, will be white with brown sails. [...]
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January 7, 2012
 Tran Tuy’s Khuc dong ca (a children’s song) (Under), which was eerily reminiscent of photographer Duy Anh’s Tiep buoc cha ong (Follow in the ancestor’s footsteps) (Above). Since the list of award-winning works were announced in June, a provincial literature and arts contest in central Vietnam has received several petitions of denouncement regarding a [...]
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January 6, 2012
Three students from Da Nang with the camera they used to make an award-winning film about HIV/AIDS discrimination Three teenagers from central Vietnam won top prize at the Asia Student Film Festival in Japan with a short film that sends a message against HIV/AIDS discrimination. Seventh graders Phan Thi Thuy Dung and Trinh Lan [...]
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December 27, 2011
A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday sentenced 14 members of a gang that traded fake medicine to between two and 10 years in jail, online newspaper Dan Tri reported. Gang leaders Huynh Ngoc Quang, 29, and Huynh Van Tien, his 33-year-old brother, received sentences of 10 years each, according to the [...]
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December 27, 2011
A female middle-school student is missing after a boat carrying 21 students capsized Saturday on a river in the north-central province of Quang Binh, online newspaper Dan Tri reported. The accident occurred on the confluence of Nan and Son rivers in Quang Trach District at around 6:15 p.m. Twenty-one students of Quang Minh Commune Secondary School [...]
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December 19, 2011
For several underprivileged people, it was the first time they were having their photos taken Nguyen Van Quang, 80, has never had a picture taken in his life, and the portraiture day on December 10 seemed to be his last chance. One of more than 2,000 people who attended the event to receive a [...]
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December 17, 2011
From left" Farhad Hosseininasbardi, Lalia Mostafa and Setoodeh Mohamad Shiraz. Police in the central province of Quang Nam said Thursday three Iranian men who robbed a local filling station early this month are being detained awaiting trial. On Dec 1, Lalia Mostafa, 24, together with Farhad Hosseininasbardi, 27, and Setoodeh Mohamad Shiraz, 28, stopped their [...]
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December 12, 2011
More than 200,000 students quit school every year, threatening dire consequences for Vietnam’s human-resource base Two shoeshine boys in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh San had to quit secondary school and move to Ho Chi Minh City two years ago to wash dishes at his aunt’s eatery to earn money and support [...]
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