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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December 9, 2011
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday reopened upgraded poultry sections in Dong Ha Market in the central province of Quang Tri, the Vietnam News Agency reported. The opening of the sections is the result of a partnership between USAID’s Avian and Pandemic Influenza Initiative and provincial authorities. USAID provided VND900 million [...]
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December 9, 2011
Canal carrying water from one of the ancient wells to farms in Gio Linh District Quang Tri Province’s best known tourist attractions are DMZ tours, Cam Lo Market, and relics of an uprising led by a man who was crowned as King Ham Nghi in 1885, becoming the eighth emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty. But [...]
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October 22, 2011
A photo taken on October 18 shows houses submerged by flood waters in Tan Hoa District, Quang Binh Province Devastating floods in Vietnam’s central and southern regions have killed at least 59 people and forced thousands of people to flee their homes, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control reported Wednesday. Seasonal flooding [...]
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August 13, 2011
Tourists use a hanging bridge to cross a river in Bangkok, Thailand A road tour between Vietnam, Laos and Thailand has been attracting more tourists to the countries since a bridge was launched across the Mekong River in December 2006.  But the country that has exploited its potentials most, unsurprisingly, is Thailand, which has for long [...]
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August 2, 2011
The hole created by the explosion of a war-era grenade that killed two scrap collectors and injured another in the central province of Quang Binh Saturday. Two people were killed and another was injured when a war-era grenade they were cutting through went off in the central province of Quang Ngai Saturday.  Tran Minh Tri, [...]
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July 7, 2011
Le Huu Tay from Hue maintains the tombs of the annonymous dead that he has fished out of the sea. Le Huu Tay has launched his small fishing boat out of the central town of Hue for more than 40 years. During his many voyages, Tay has spotted the bodies of numerous annonymous kin [...]
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July 4, 2011
Soldiers and civilians risk their lives in removing unexploded bombs that continue to kill thousands decades after the Vietnam War Soldiers remove an unexploded bomb out of a rice field in the Mekong Delta in April Nguyen Van Cuong quit his job as bomb deactivator two years ago, but constantly thinks of the “meaningful [...]
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June 26, 2011
Six boys were arrested by Ho Chi Minh City police for allegedly hacking into email accounts. A joint police task force have arrested six teenage boys who were allegedly involved in an email scam that stretched from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City, VnExpress reported Monday.  Police say the boys have perpetrated the scam since, at least, May of last year. [...]
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June 26, 2011
Military officers arrange the remains of 11 soldiers found in Quang Tri Province. Military officers in the central province of Quang Tri on Thursday found a grave with the remains of 11 Vietnamese soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. Following tip-offs from local residents, the officers unearthed seven sets of remains in a rural village [...]
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