Posts Tagged ‘ The North Central Province ’

Canine avengers 

July 16, 2011
Canine avengers 

  Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]

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Deadly roads 

April 25, 2011
Deadly roads 

  Careless driving, disregard for the law and weak implementation combine to kill increasing numbers of people in road traffic accidents The wrecked vehicles in an accident involving a bus and a freezer truck on April 18 in the north-central province of Ha Tinh that killed three and injured twenty others Five-year-old Ly thinks her [...]

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SOCIAL IN BRIEF 5/5

May 5, 2009
SOCIAL IN BRIEF 5/5

Storm strengthens, might change course; Vietnam Buddhist Sangha holds celebration in Moscow; 2010 National Tourism Year to be launched in Hanoi; Number of third-borns rises by 1 percent; Former Chinese specialists honoured Storm strengthens, might change course Tropical storm Chan-Hom, which was formed from a depression in the East Sea, has regained category status as it [...]

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Improper burials

March 13, 2009
Improper burials

A worker climbs a high cliff to set explosives at the Thach Hai quarry in the north-central province of Ha Tinh Children have been orphaned and families torn apart as quarry workers put themselves in the way of rockslides for less than VND40,000 ($2.30) a day. Nguyen Van Thanh often cries beside his family altar, [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...