Posts Tagged ‘ reporters ’

Fuel to the fire 

January 15, 2012
Fuel to the fire 

  Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]

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British paper turns readers into newshounds 

November 13, 2011
British paper turns readers into newshounds 

A journalist looks at the ‘Newslist’ on the Guardian website on November 10. A British newspaper has thrown open its office doors, let the readers stride in, and invited them to peer over reporters’ shoulders — digitally, at least. The website of the left-leaning Guardian daily is publishing its ‘newslist’ — a schedule of stories [...]

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Speaking candidly, journalists are truly snakes 

November 11, 2011
Speaking candidly, journalists are truly snakes 

  In 1989, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published her famous essay, “The Journalist and the Murderer,” with its notoriously overheated opening sentence: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” This was back in the era [...]

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Accidents waiting to happen 

September 23, 2011
Accidents waiting to happen 

  Mafia-esque bus transportation system a no-holds-barred race fraught with risk Buses wait to pick up passengers on the road outside the Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi It took 30 minutes for the bus to travel just one kilometer as it inched its way out of the My Dinh Terminal in Hanoi at around [...]

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Greasy highways: serial bribing gets trucks past checkpoints 

September 20, 2011
Greasy highways: serial bribing gets trucks past checkpoints 

A traffic police officer stops trucks at a mountain pass in Ha Tinh Province on July 24. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Bribing traffic cops to get away with driving overloaded trucks or trucks carrying illegal products is common practice among drivers on highways and roads across the country. A Tuoi Tre report says the situation is [...]

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Illegal animal skins a booming business in Vietnam 

August 13, 2011
Illegal animal skins a booming business in Vietnam 

Toys for sale on a sidewalk in HCMC. The seller claimed they were made with real animal skins. The illegal animal skin trade is robust and thriving in Ho Chi Minh City and across Vietnam, according to a Tuoi Tre investigation. Nghia, an animal leather dealer from Dong Nai Province near HCMC, said that langour [...]

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Northern Vietnam booms with ancient tea trees 

July 7, 2011
Northern Vietnam booms with ancient tea trees 

  An ancient tea tree in Lao Chai, the northern province of Ha Giang   Vietnam boasts a vast wealth of ancient tea trees that are still waiting to be discovered, developed and protected.   According to scant mention in historic materials and scientific research, ancient tea trees are mainly located in the northern highland provinces of [...]

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Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO 

June 21, 2011
Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO 

A Royal Air Force Tornado aircraft prepares to land at RAF Marham, Norfolk. The Libyan government said on Monday 19 civilians were killed in a NATO air strike on the home of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s top officials, a day after NATO admitted killing civilians in a separate aerial attack. Libyan officials took reporters to [...]

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NATO bombs Tripoli, Clinton says time against Gaddafi 

May 24, 2011
NATO bombs Tripoli, Clinton says time against Gaddafi 

Smoke rises above buildings in Tripoli early May 24, 2011. NATO warplanes hammered Tripoli on Tuesday with some of their heaviest air strikes yet after the United States said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would "inevitably" be forced from power. At least 12 huge explosions rocked the capital in the early hours. Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim [...]

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Hanoi businessman arrested for attacking reporters 

November 9, 2010
Hanoi businessman arrested for attacking reporters 

Hanoi police with reporters who were assaulted by employees of a local firm Police in Hanoi on Monday detained seven people from a company for assaulting and abusing a group of reporters who were investigating residents’ complaints about the firm.   When the three reporters showed their cards on November 4, Nguyen Huu Tuan, director of [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...