January 22, 2012
A teenage duck farmer in southern Vietnam has been killed by the bird flu virus this month, a doctor said at a meeting with Ho Chi Minh City Health Department Wednesday. Le Van N. of Hau Giang Province in the Mekong Delta was hospitalized January 10 with high fever and fatigue but died a day [...]
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January 11, 2012
An Irrawaddy dolphin A group of the precious dolphin species Irrawaddy has been spotted at Kien Giang biosphere reserve in southern Vietnam. The group of around 20 dolphins were found around the Ba Lua islands, completely separated from other Irrawady groups at Thailand’s coastal lake Songkhla and in the Mekong River upstream, news website VietNamNet [...]
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December 30, 2011
A Ho Chi Minh City court on Friday sentenced five men to death for joining a 14-strong gang to trade 7 kilograms of heroin. Nguyen Xuan Dan, Vo Anh Tuan, Vo Tien Thang, Luu Hoang Thao and Hoang Phung Bac Son received the death penalty on charges of “illegal trade of drugs.” Truong Van Hoa, [...]
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December 22, 2011
A 3-year-old boy died and his entire family was hospitalized in southern Vietnam on Tuesday as a result of a suspected power generator gas emission. Vo Thanh Phong, his wife and daughter are being treated at the hospital, while his son was pronounced dead from toxic gas suffocation, news website VnExpress reported. Neighbors in Kien Giang [...]
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December 17, 2011
Australian students build a house for a poor man in Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam early December It seems like an unusual way for Australian teenagers to spend money they earned from part-time jobs, but 13 of them recently used their savings to attend special tours in southern Vietnam where they built houses [...]
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December 3, 2011
Fourth graders with bruised butts caused by their teacher's beating in southern Vietnam. Several fourth graders in southern Vietnam have been sent to the hospital to have their injuries checked, after there were accusations that a teacher had beaten them at school. Â Parents of seven boys from Binh Phuoc Province, around 80 kilometers from [...]
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November 18, 2011
An off-duty policeman in southern Vietnam was killed by one stab Thursday night after a chaotic argument at a local bar.  Sergeant major Cao Tien Tuan, 24, was stabbed when leaving Bar Nice Group in Dong Nai Province, which neighbors Ho Chi Minh City, Tuoi Tre quoted local police as saying.  According to [...]
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November 17, 2011
Nguyen Van Men, 62, and his wife, at a southern Vietnam hospital where he and three others were sent as they fell unconscious after drinking rice wine Four people were hospitalized in southern Vietnam on Tuesday after finishing 10 liters of rice wine at a family party.  The four men are relatives from An [...]
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November 14, 2011
The front of a truck, one of the nine vehicles hit by another truck in southern Vietnam on Saturday. Three people including two teenagers were killed in southern Vietnam on Saturday as a truck hit nine vehicles. The southbound truck from Hanoi hit another truck on National Highway 1A across Dong Nai Province that neighbors [...]
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November 11, 2011
Dao Huu Binh at a southern Vietnam hospital with injuries he sustained after stabbing a man dead. Police in southern Vietnam on Tuesday detained five people involved in two recent chases that killed two people. Â In one chase that occurred on Monday, Dao Huu Binh had allegedly stabbed Tran Dinh Quoc, 21, who died [...]
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