January 20, 2012
The Tet flower road will return to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City this Friday, highlighted by a giant dragon blowing blooms, as the city starts celebrating the Year of Dragon. With the Lunar New Year starting Monday next week, work to transform Nguyen Hue Street into a street of flowers began on January 10. The 12 meter long, [...]
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November 23, 2011
Potholes on the Ho Chi Minh City – Trung Luong highway in southern Vietnam The Vietnamese transport ministry Monday suspended the official managing the country’s first cars-only expressway after its poor quality allegedly caused many accidents since it opened to traffic almost two years ago. The charges have not been spelled out, but Minister Dinh [...]
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November 5, 2011
 File picture shows parked emergency response vehicles. Up to 40 people were injured and some were killed after a massive pile-up on a British motorway, emergency services said on Saturday. Up to 40 people were injured and some were killed after a massive pile-up on a British motorway, emergency services said on Saturday. Television [...]
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September 23, 2011
Mafia-esque bus transportation system a no-holds-barred race fraught with risk Buses wait to pick up passengers on the road outside the Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi It took 30 minutes for the bus to travel just one kilometer as it inched its way out of the My Dinh Terminal in Hanoi at around [...]
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July 26, 2011
A view of the Pha Din mountain pass. Two children and a man were killed after a bus overturned on a mountain pass in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on Saturday, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported. The bus was traveling from the northern province of Hung Yen to Dien Bien when it crashed into [...]
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July 3, 2011
Waving the Vietnamese flag on the top of Indochina’s tallest peak. Since my student days, I’d cherished a dream of climbing the 3,143 meters Mount Fansipan in Lao Cai in Vietnam’s far northwest. Yet it took me several years to muster the courage and build up the confidence I would need to tackle Indochina’s tallest [...]
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July 2, 2011
Re: It’s the traffic, stupid! (May 6-12 issue No.84) This is an interesting and burning issue in Vietnam. I moved to this country from San Jose, California. I have lived here now for two years. One thing I learned is that that traffic rules and traffic culture do not exist in Vietnam. I noticed [...]
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June 21, 2011
A passenger plane slammed into the ground and caught fire while trying to land on a foggy night in northwestern Russia, killing at least 44 people on board, authorities said on Tuesday. The Tupolev-134, with 43 passengers and nine crew, crashed on a road 700 meters (2,300 feet) short of the runway at the [...]
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June 19, 2011
Reckless driving and frequent tire blow outs have plagued Vietnam’s most advanced roadway The bus involved in the accident on June 13 that killed 8 people and injured 10 others on the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway Investigations into a recent highway accident, which killed eight and injured 10, has indicated that speeding [...]
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April 25, 2011
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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