January 18, 2012
A bunch of young Hanoi cyclists have apparently mainstreamed the phrase “pain in the ass” by naming their club à Mông, literally meaning “buttock pain.” Buttock Pain was founded in 2008 after a group of cycling lovers met on the web site ttvnol.com and organized a successful trip to Truc Lam Tay Thien Zen [...]
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January 14, 2012
Vietnam aims to raise its coal output to 55-58 million tons in 2015 from an estimated 48.9 million tons this year in an effort to meet demand for fast-growing electricity production, the government said. Output is projected to rise to more than 75 million tons by 2030 thanks to the exploitation of new sites, [...]
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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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October 25, 2011
A rescue worker carries Azra Karaduman, a two-week-old baby who was pulled from the debris of the earthquake in Ercis. The mother of the infant was also alive but buried in the wreckage of their home. Rescuers plucked a two-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother from the rubble of Turkey’s devastating earthquake on Tuesday, [...]
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September 25, 2011
About two weeks before the new school year started, at least 17 children drowned in rivers, lakes and construction pits across the country. The latest incident was reported in Hanoi, where six children, all 12, drowned when their boat capsized in the Red River on September 2. Although two big rivers, the Red and [...]
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July 15, 2011
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has listed the Red-eared slider as an invasive species. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued a list of 33 invasive species of plants and animals found in Vietnam. In a new circular released last week, the ministry defined invasive species as those invading the habitat of or [...]
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July 7, 2011
The Red River Delta has critical levels of toxic arsenic experts said at a Wednesday conference in Hanoi. Â Research presented at the conference showed arsenic poisoning from naturally occurring arsenic compounds in underground water in many places around the country, especially the Red River Delta provinces of Ha Nam, Hung Yen, Nam Dinh, [...]
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June 27, 2011
Coal mining in the northern province of Quang Ninh. Vietnam, a major coal exporter, imported its first load of the fuel this month. Vietnam imported its first load of coal this month even as it continues exporting large quantities of the fuel. This is irrational and the country should have stopped exporting it years ago, [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tourists with Red Dao ethnic minorities at Ta Phin Village The sun was shining brightly over terraced hills dressed in brilliant emerald folds. Summer had finally arrived in Sa Pa, and so had we. The stunning mountains of Sa Pa lie roughly 200 miles from Hanoi, in Lao Cai Province. During the 19th century, [...]
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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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