January 25, 2012
Two Vietnamese sailors on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean two years ago have called home saying the pirates had chopped off an arm of the captain. The pirates are demanding a US$2.8-million ransom. On January 20, Tran Van Hung, one of the 26 crew members of the [...]
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January 15, 2012
A handout from the Italian Guardia de Finanza shows the Costa Concordia, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio. Two South Korean honeymooners were rescued Sunday from a cruise ship that hit rocks and keeled over off the west coast of Italy, but three were confirmed dead [...]
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January 2, 2012
Tran Hoang Huy, Director of Huy Phat Company A senior customs officer has been suspended after a businessman complained about customs services in a letter to Vietnam’s finance minister earlier this month. But there’s no sign that the suspension will be followed by a punishment as the first investigation by the ministry concluded the official innocent, news website VnExpress [...]
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December 27, 2011
A female middle-school student is missing after a boat carrying 21 students capsized Saturday on a river in the north-central province of Quang Binh, online newspaper Dan Tri reported. The accident occurred on the confluence of Nan and Son rivers in Quang Trach District at around 6:15 p.m. Twenty-one students of Quang Minh Commune Secondary School [...]
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December 26, 2011
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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November 14, 2011
This undated photo, received from the Australian Federal Police, shows officers inspecting a yacht from which Australian police seized 300 kg of cocaine worth $80.3 mln. Australian police seized 300 kilograms (650 pounds) of cocaine from a luxury yacht and charged four Spaniards with drug trafficking in one of the country’s biggest ever busts, officials [...]
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September 22, 2011
Students from the Ho Chi Minh City-based University of Technology test their hovercraft The 4.2-meter long boat was brought to the university’s soccer ground as many people watched with interest and some excitement. After a round of checks, Vy Bao Thinh, one of the students, got into it and started the engine. The flap around [...]
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August 27, 2011
Vietnamese fishermen at a prison in Palawan Province, the Philippines Over 100 Vietnamese fishermen allegedly victimized by a predatory fishing contract are longing for home as their trial for illegally fishing in the Philippines begins in Palawan Province. “We want to return to our hometowns as soon as possible,” Tran Van Thai, 42, told Tuoi [...]
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August 19, 2011
An old fishing boat being renovated into a passenger boat Dilapidated fishing boats are being refashioned into tourism boats and restaurant cruisers in what experts say is a dangerous practice. A report by the Tuoi Tre said Monday that the new trend is to blame as a major cause for fatal boat wrecks. “Fishing boats and tourism [...]
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August 19, 2011
Without docks built to recieve tour boats, tourists have to climb over a fence to get to the street when they visit the beach city of Da Nang in central Vietnam. Without a tourism wharf, travelers who dock in Da Nang have to cross dangerous makeshift bridges to reach the mainland. Tuyet Lam, a tourist [...]
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