October 14, 2011
A protester chants during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York October 1, 2011 Anti-Wall Street protesters vowed to keep up their fight on Sunday despite the arrests of more than 700 people the previous day for blocking traffic lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge in an unauthorized protest. Police issued more than 700 summonses [...]
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September 9, 2011
Soothsaying guide presents the past and foretells the future Tran Thi Dieu, 78, entertains a foreign tourist thanks to her fluent English and fortune-telling skills. Thuy Thanh Commune boasts an impressive tile-roofed bridge that is such an integral and central part of it that the village itself is now called the Thanh Toan Tile [...]
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July 20, 2011
Workers fix cracks on Thuan Phuoc Bridge in Da Nang. Vietnam’s longest and most modern suspension bridge in Da Nang City has developed cracks and pot holes in many places just two years after it opened, the Saigon Tiep Thi reported Monday. Â Thuan Phuoc Bridge, which was built at a cost of nearly VND1 [...]
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May 17, 2011
The site where a a concrete pier toppled over a boat, killing a woman and her daughter Sunday in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho A woman and her daughter were killed when a 10m-tall concrete pier of a bridge that was never built fell on a boat Sunday night in the Mekong Delta City [...]
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March 23, 2011
Police in Bavet, Cambodia, raided the Chateau Casino in January, freeing 10 Vietnamese gamblers who were being held against their will by loan sharks Last month, Vietnam was rocked by the shocking confession of Tran Thuy Lieu, 41. After nearly four weeks of media innuendo and heavy police interrogation, Lieu’s sisters convinced her to admit [...]
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December 25, 2010
A barge stuck under the O Thuoc Bridge in Tien Giang Province. The barge's captain was killed in the accident. The captain of a barge was killed in the Mekong Delta’s Tien Giang Province Sunday night (December 19) as it got stuck at a bridge on the Rach Gam River. Phung Minh Tam, 33, was crushed [...]
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November 27, 2010
Nine Vietnamese-Cambodians among 351 dead as festival-goers panic Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen weeps for victims of the stampede which killed at least 351 people on the Diamond Bridge in Phnom Penh Grief ran deep as Cambodia, led by a visibly emotional Prime Minister Hun Sen, mourned the deaths of 351 people in a stampede [...]
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November 23, 2010
Cambodian police officials examine belongings left by victims on a bridge in Phnom Penh on November 23, 2010 where nearly 380 people perished in a mass stampede. Frantic relatives scoured makeshift morgues in the Cambodian capital on Tuesday after nearly 380 revelers perished in a huge stampede on an overcrowded bridge, turning a water festival [...]
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November 12, 2010
Long Bien Bridge was decorated to the image of dragon in last year’s festival The 2nd Long Bien Bridge festival, “Dragon Bridge,” will be held over the Red River next weekend (November 20-21). The 1,628-meter structure will feature an exhibition of photographs, documents and other artifacts depicting the city’s defense over the last thousand years. [...]
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February 8, 2010
The Ministry of Transport has announced it will temporarily open a major expressway through Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of Long An and Tien Giang in the Mekong Delta from February 3 onwards. The temporary operation of the 40-kilometer speedway, also known as HCMC-Trung Luong Highway, is scheduled to be completed by the [...]
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