Posts Tagged ‘ Soldiers ’

Lie of the land 

January 18, 2012
Lie of the land 

  After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District. Vuon’s relatives reportedly set mines and shot at police officials and soldiers revoking their farmland under a [...]

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Two die, five missing as boat sinks in central Vietnam 

December 26, 2011
Two die, five missing as boat sinks in central Vietnam 

  Two women were killed and five soldiers are missing when a boat carrying 34 people sank in the central province of Quang Nam Sunday. According to Hoi An Town’s People’s Committee, the boat from Tan Hiep Commune island was sunk by waves when it was less than one kilometer from the town’s coast. People on [...]

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US forces quit Iraq nine years on 

December 18, 2011
US forces quit Iraq nine years on 

  US soldiers wave at their comrades as they cross the border between Iraq and Kuwait. The last US forces left Iraq and entered Kuwait on Sunday, nearly nine years after launching a divisive war to oust Saddam Hussein, and just as the oil-rich country grapples with renewed political deadlock. The last of roughly 110 [...]

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US forces mark end of Iraq mission 

December 15, 2011
US forces mark end of Iraq mission 

  US military personnel in Baghdad lower the US Forces-Iraq colours before they are encased, during a flag-lowering ceremony marking the end of the US mission in Iraq on December 15 nearly nine years after the controversial invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. US forces formally marked the end of their mission in Iraq with a [...]

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Soldiers' remains found by mediums must be confirmed with DNA tests 

August 17, 2011
Soldiers' remains found by mediums must be confirmed with DNA tests 

People serach for the remains of a war martyr in Nghe An Province Authorities in the north-central province of Nghe An have decreed that all soldiers’ remains found by mediums must be confirmed by DNA tests in order to be made official.   Nghe An Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, provincial police and [...]

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Afghan bomb kills five NATO troops 

August 11, 2011
Afghan bomb kills five NATO troops 

File photo shows troops serving in the International Security Assistance Force on a dawn patrol in Afghanistan. Five NATO soldiers were killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, as the Taliban rejected a US claim to have killed the fighters who shot down an American helicopter killing 38 troops. The soldiers’ nationalities and [...]

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Africa bank says Somalia war key to famine 

August 2, 2011
Africa bank says Somalia war key to famine 

Somali refugees fetch water at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya on July 31, 2011. The head of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, blamed the famine in Africa’s Horn of Africa region on climate change and "our collective failure to end the Somali civil war." "While this is a tragedy triggered by the worst [...]

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Pilot project employs psychics in searching for MIAs 

July 12, 2011
Pilot project employs psychics in searching for MIAs 

Soldiers from the Kon Tum Province Military Unit collect the remains of a Vietnamese war martyr found during construction of a house in the eponymous town. The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has said in a statement that it will put a growing number of psychic corpse finders to the test. The [...]

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Clear and present danger 

July 4, 2011
Clear and present danger 

  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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Remains of 11 MIA soldiers found in central Vietnam 

June 26, 2011
Remains of 11 MIA soldiers found in central Vietnam 

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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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...