December 12, 2011
A panoramic view of Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long Bay. Experts have called for improved services and preservation work as the UNESCO World Heritage Site gains further recognition as a natural wonder. A hike in admission fees for the Ha Long Bay, Vietnam’s foremost tourism site, has drawn a lot of flak, particularly over [...]
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November 21, 2011
New world title will make no difference until existing infrastructure, services are improved, experts say A tourist boat sails past the stone islands of Ha Long Bay Ha Long Bay, by virtue of being the jewel in Vietnam’s tourism crown, has always been in the spotlight, but the lights have just gotten a lot [...]
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June 27, 2011
Coal mining in the northern province of Quang Ninh. Vietnam, a major coal exporter, imported its first load of the fuel this month. Vietnam imported its first load of coal this month even as it continues exporting large quantities of the fuel. This is irrational and the country should have stopped exporting it years ago, [...]
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December 20, 2010
Influential people might be supporting illegal industry, says a prominent lawmaker A bear lies unconscious at a bear farm in Ha Long Town in Quang Ninh Province, as a man extracts bear bile from the animal On the last leg of a five-day trip, a group of Korean tourists stopped in at a bear [...]
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November 27, 2010
A snapshot from an online clip filming Quang Ninh's police's prostitution raid which has provoked public's protests and experts' concerns. Police in Quang Ninh Province have promised to investigate a case involving six policemen who have been suspended for their alleged involvement in spreading a clip of two nude sex workers on the Internet recently. [...]
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January 27, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Cement producers have accused the Vinacomin of charging overly high transport fees. According to the Vietnam Cement Association, He Duong Cement Company in Ninh Binh Province, Huu Nghi Company in Phu Tho and X18 Company in Hoa Binh have lodged complaints about the fact that Vinacomin sets transport fees which are three times [...]
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December 24, 2009
Packages of marijuana totaling nearly eight tons were seized by police in Quang Ninh Province last year (Photo: CAND)LookAtVietnam – Five Chinese nationals accused of involvement in trafficking nearly eight tons of marijuana into Vietnam last year were brought to the Quang Ninh Province People’s Court on December 22 in a first instance hearing. The [...]
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November 20, 2009
A house in Quang Ninh Province tilted and crashed into another on Monday night, killing a person A man watching TV on the third floor of his house in Quang Ninh Province was killed in bizarre fashion when a wall collapsed on him on Monday night. The accident happened when a neighboring three-storied building tilted [...]
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November 13, 2009
Tourists are largely unaware they are breaking local and international law when buying bear bile in Vietnam. Quang Ninh Province environmental police recently raided Viet Thai, one of the six known bear bile farms in the province, and caught nine people, including two South Koreans, engaged in the extraction of bear bile last month.The incident [...]
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October 5, 2009
After Quang Ninh police found ‘undocumented’ bears and a quantity of bear bile at a bear farm near Ha Long City, seven people were detained for questioning on October 1. Our infiltration of the bear farms comes to nothing Nguyen Huu Tuoc, director of Quang Ninh Province Police, told Tuoi Tre newspaper that provincial and local [...]
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