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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November 6, 2011
In this May 24, 2010 file photo released by Moscow’s Institute for Medical and Biological Problems and made available Wednesday, June 2, 2010, researchers test spacesuits on a simulated Mars surface during a training session at Moscow’s Institute for Medical and Biological Problems. Pale-faced but smiling, the crew of a long-duration isolation study emerged [...]
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July 2, 2011
International experts urge action to back rhetoric as China and Vietnam pledge to solve East Sea disputes peacefully Sixty-two-year old Nguyen Van Ai of the central Binh Dinh Province prepares for an offshore fishing trip. Ai owns four large fishing boats and together with six sons, two sons-in-law and 75 other fishermen, head out [...]
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May 15, 2011
This week, nearly 500 Indian sailors flooded into Saigon during a four-day friendly Port Call. Sailors in pressed white uniforms could be seen everywhere, on city sidewalks and parks, taking in the town. In the midst of the visit, the crew took time to welcome members of Saigon society aboard. On May 10, Rear [...]
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April 1, 2011
Son Doong super-cave in the province of Quang Binh Last week director Cavallaro Brian Anthony wrapped up filming on a television series entitled Vietnam’s World Natural Heritage: Phong Nha – Ke Bang. Â The film aims to promote the image of the country, its people and the sites to American tourists – particularly Vietnamese citizens [...]
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March 24, 2011
The 25-meter long, two-story vessel, made of coconut shell and other composite materials, is serving as a floating restaurant in the central coastal province of Phu Yen’s Da Rang River Pham Hong Binh may be the first man to float a restaurant on coconuts. But, then again, he wouldn’t have it any other way. In [...]
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February 28, 2011
The caravan at the border crossing Xa Xia. Last July, four Vietnamese nationals made history, by piling into an all-terrain Mitsubishi and setting off for the Golden Triangle. They weren’t heroin traffickers, wildlife smugglers or flesh peddlers. These men were trafficking in adventure. And Vietnam ate it up. On December 5, audiences all over the [...]
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February 28, 2011
Relatives of missing fishermen from Quang Ngai Province’s Ly Son District weep for their missing husbands and fathers. Quang Ngai officials are seeking assistance from the central government as they continue to hunt for the crew of a fishing boat that went missing on January 23. Truong Ngoc Nhi, vice chairman of the provincial People’s [...]
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February 18, 2011
A representative of the company which owns a Vietnamese ship reported to be stranded off the coast of southern India for nearly six months with 18 sailors on board on Wednesday rejected the reports carried in the Indian media.  Vu Quang, deputy director of Bien Nam Ship Trade Co., Ltd., said the ship’s Malaysian captain Maung Maung [...]
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January 21, 2011
This undated handout photo released by South Korea’s military shows S.Korean soldiers aboard a helicopter aiming a machine gun at a pirate boat in waters off Somalia. South Korean navy commandos stormed a ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, rescuing all the crew and killing eight pirates, according to military officials. “Our [...]
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