December 10, 2011
A file photo taken last July shows trucks and heavy machinery taking part in road work at the Xayaburi dam construction site in Xayaburi Province, Laos. Construction of the US$3.8-billion Xayaburi dam will be suspended pending further impact studies to be done by Japan, the four countries that share the lower reaches of the [...]
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November 19, 2011
Méli-Mélo offers spa products representing the four elements: fire, earth, air and water I was strolling along the passageway leading to Le Fenetre Soleil café on Ly Tu Trong Street in Ho Chi Minh City when I spotted some cute-looking soap, candle holders and crystals through the window of a new shop. Full of [...]
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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 8, 2011
The lake where the four schoolgirls drowned on Nov 6 (Photo: Dan Tri) Four secondary school female students drowned Sunday (Nov 6) while rowing on a lake in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak. Do Thi My Huyen, Duong Thi Hai Yen, Mai Thi Thanh Trang and Ha Thi Thuy Trang, all ninth-graders of [...]
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August 22, 2011
The restaurant where a 18-year-old boy was allegedly killed by three former employees and an accomplice in Ho Chi Minh City early this month. Police arrested the four suspects on Friday. Police in Ho Chi Minh City Friday arrested four people, including a teenager, for investigating the murder of an 18-year-old youth when they robbed a restaurant [...]
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August 14, 2011
Activists worry multinational corporations that produced Agent Orange could perpetrate another ecological disaster through genetically modified organisms Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc (C), 27 years old, and his father Chu Quang Chien (R) who served in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam – Da Nang area from 1971-1975 during the Vietnam War, attend a computer [...]
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July 16, 2011
Activists in the ongoing fight against Mekong dams worry that recent US opposition has come too little, too late. Cambodian fishermen cast their net into the Mekong River outside Phnom Penh in April. US senators have called for greater environmental safeguards for the Mekong River, but analysts remain doubtful that US influence is capable [...]
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June 26, 2011
The four defendants during the first trial on March 29, 2011. The Vietnamese supreme court Wednesday increased jail terms for two women and a man found guilty of illegally providing marriage brokering services for Chinese men when the case was considered on appeal. Trinh Thi Thu, 52, got eight years instead of the six years [...]
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April 24, 2011
Decision deferred on Xayaburi Dam, environmentalists say the project should be canceled People bathing in the Mekong River in Nong Khai Province in Thailand. Downstream riparian nations Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos have failed to reach an agreement on construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam unilaterally pursued by Laos. The Mekong River has gained [...]
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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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