January 17, 2012
More than 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay will be decorated with white details instead of being repainted white totally to “renovate” the site’s tourism sector, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Vu Thi Thu Thuy, vice chairwoman of the People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh [...]
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January 9, 2012
Authorities in the northern province of Quang Ninh have asked that Ha Long Bay boats be painted white, saying the change befits the bay’s recent international recognition. A report Friday in VnExpress said, under the decision issued on Thursday by Quang Ninh’s People’s Committee, all tourist boats, except dragon boats, will be white with brown sails. [...]
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November 4, 2011
A Molnya Projekt 1241.8 frigate of the Vietnam Navy, built with parts sent from Russia. A leading Russian shipyard is helping Vietnam build the first missile-equipped ships for its navy.  Engineers in Vietnam have started to put together the first of four Molnya Projekt 1241.8 boats, with parts sent from the Vympel shipyard under the [...]
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September 1, 2011
Vietnamese fishermen at a prison in Palawan Province in the Philippines A court in the Philippines acquitted 122 Vietnamese fishermen of violating the country’s territorial waters after a three-day hearing Friday, Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Vu Tu said. The fishermen, all from the central province of Binh Thuan, were arrested on May 30, as Filipino police [...]
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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 6, 2011
At one point, the Ngo Dong River flows between two impressive bluffs An astonishing 1,300 manned rowing boats are used to take tourists up the Ngo Dong River to Tam Coc and back. From the village of Van Lam in Ninh Binh Province, it’s a two-hour trip along the river to the three limestone [...]
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July 15, 2011
As many as 124 Vietnamese fishermen on seven fishing boats from the southeastern province of Binh Thuan have been stuck in the Philippines for the last 10 days, Thanh Nien has learnt. Truong Thi Hoa of Phu Quy District told Thanh Nien via telephone that her husband, Pham Hong, the captain of one of [...]
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July 5, 2011
Phan Dong Temple in Quang Ninh Province. The temple is part of a national relic that sand dredging has been pushing to the Nhu Nguyet river. Illegal sand dredging has been pushing a national historic site in northern Vietnam to the edge of a local river while the authorities either ignorant or unwilling to do [...]
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June 19, 2011
Tourist boats on Halong Bay, one of Vietnam's most popular tourist attractions. Vietnam has delayed the introduction of new boat safety rules at a top tourist site where 12 people drowned in February, after tour operators went on strike in protest, an official said Monday. Almost 500 boats refused to operate last Friday on Ha [...]
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February 7, 2010
Fishermen in the central province of Quang Ngai have complained that a Chinese boat robbed and mistreated them as they were fishing off the Hoang Sa (Paracel) islands early this week, a local newswire reported Sunday. According to the complaint submitted to Ly Son Districtâs Coast Guard Headquarters by fisherman Nguyen Chin, he and his [...]
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Ha Long Bay boats do not have to be painted wholly white: authorities
More than 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay will be decorated with white details instead of being repainted white totally to “renovate” the site’s tourism sector, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Vu Thi Thu Thuy, vice chairwoman of the People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh [...]
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