Posts Tagged ‘ The Roadway ’

Speeding leads to highway deaths 

June 19, 2011
Speeding leads to highway deaths 

  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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Prime Minister pushes city officials on beltway report 

April 1, 2011
Prime Minister pushes city officials on beltway report 

Construction on the Tan Son Nhat – Binh Loi – Outer Ring Road project in Ho Chi Minh City. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called for strict punishment of any misconduct relating to the roadway’s construction. The central government has ordered officials in Ho Chi Minh City to quickly resolve the irregularities discovered during [...]

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Southern hub floods day after Hanoi

July 22, 2009
Southern hub floods day after Hanoi

A woman in Binh Thanh District tries to prevent water from entering her house as many streets in the city were flooded by heavy rains Tuesday afternoon A four-hour storm Tuesday left motorists in Ho Chi Minh City stranded by floods in a repeat of the situation in Hanoi one day earlier. Many streets in [...]

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Vietnam-China cross-border trade in… Luc Ngan district

June 15, 2009
Vietnam-China cross-border trade in… Luc Ngan district

Luc Ngan, the biggest litchi granary in Vietnam has become the new Vietnam-China border trade centre as Chinese merchants go directly to the litchi district to do trade. The Chinese ’kerb’ merchant, half-naked, is negotiating prices Of 44,000 hectares of litchis grown in Bac Giang province, which yield 120,000 tonnes of fruit, the litchis in Luc [...]

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Bus stops a hazard as vendors begin moving in

April 16, 2009
Bus stops a hazard as vendors begin moving in

LookAtVietnam – More than 160 of the 400 bus stops in HCM City have been taken over by vendors and no longer meet safety regulations, according to inspectors with the Transport Department after a two-month inspection. Passengers were exposed to danger when they were forced to wait for buses on the roadway.Many of the stops [...]

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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...