January 7, 2012
Dau Ngoc Hung (L) arrives at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport January 4. Hung is the sole survivor out of 23 sailors who were on board the Vietnamese cargo vessel Vinalines Queen which reportedly sank off the Philippines on December 25 without sending distress signals. The sole survivor from the Vinalines Queen, the Vietnamese [...]
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January 3, 2012
A file photo of the Vinalines Queen Vietnamese search and rescue authorities said Saturday 13 foreign ships traveling in the vicinity of the Vinalines Queen freighter, which allegedly went missing off the Philippines on Dec. 25, have accepted a request to search for the ship. Nguyen Anh Vu, director of the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination [...]
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January 2, 2012
A Vietnamese speech translation system and an iPhone navigation app based on voice recognition are among the applications recently introduced by a Ho Chi Minh City-based university.  The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AILab) at the University of Science, said based on its research on spoken language that earned the third prize in the 2009 Viet Talents contest, [...]
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November 16, 2011
A 96-year-old man says he is close to ending a treasure hunt that has lasted well over 50 years Tran Van Tiep, 96, and his youngest son Tran Phuong Hong. Tiep has obtained permission from Binh Thuan Province authorities to search for the 4,000 tons of gold treasure he believed to be hidden in [...]
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October 25, 2011
A rescue worker carries Azra Karaduman, a two-week-old baby who was pulled from the debris of the earthquake in Ercis. The mother of the infant was also alive but buried in the wreckage of their home. Rescuers plucked a two-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother from the rubble of Turkey’s devastating earthquake on Tuesday, [...]
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October 25, 2011
A couple pass by a pancake a day after a powerful earthquake in the town of Ercis in Van province, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Hopes faded Tuesday of finding more survivors as rescuers under floodlights scrabbled desperately through the rubble of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey. The rescue [...]
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July 30, 2011
Nguyen Hong Cong, 60, has hunted a royal treasure over the past 30 years in the northern province of Quang Binh. Local authorities have said there is no treasure to be found. Authorities in the northern province of Quang Binh Wednesday officially dismissed the possibility of a royal treasure being found by a man who [...]
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July 20, 2011
A police officer and Dong Nai residents in a search operation after a rumor spread that two tigers had been seen in the area. Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai on Monday ordered soldiers and forest wardens to search for two tigers that locals claimed to have seen in a cashew garden. Vu [...]
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July 12, 2011
A sixty-year-old man has spent half his life and all his money chasing the legend of Emperor Ham Nghi’s buried treasure Nguyen Hong Cong (pictured lower left) now lives in a remote cottage in the Hoa Son Forest where he has hunted an elusive treasure trove for the past 30 years. In the summer [...]
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July 1, 2011
A ship assembled by the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin)’s Ha Long Ship Building Company in the northern Quang Ninh Province. The Vietnamese prime minister has demanded thorough investigation and strict punishments against those responsible for theaccumulated debt of more than US$4 billion of the state-owned shipbuilder Vinashin. Officials should make public any developments in the [...]
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