Posts Tagged ‘ The Search ’

Old’s gold 

November 16, 2011
Old’s gold 

  A 96-year-old man says he is close to ending a treasure hunt that has lasted well over 50 years Tran Van Tiep, 96, and his youngest son Tran Phuong Hong. Tiep has obtained permission from Binh Thuan Province authorities to search for the 4,000 tons of gold treasure he believed to be hidden in [...]

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Online communities follows tragic missing daughter story

January 28, 2010
Online communities follows tragic missing daughter story

LookAtVietnam – The Vietnam online community is closely following story of a father who set up a website (nguyenminhchau.com) to look for his daughter who has been missing for 15 years.   A photo of the missing girl on the website. Website nguyenminhchau.com includes the information that the girl Nguyen Truong An, born in 1990, the [...]

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Belatedly, Google’s royalties proposal is clarified

July 17, 2009
Belatedly, Google’s royalties proposal is clarified

LookAtVietnam – Some local newspapers last week, including this one, reported that Google would pay hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties to Vietnamese writers. It isn’t true. Google may digitize Vietnamese works for a fee An ‘urban legend’ of sorts has swept through the Vietnamese literary world. On July 10 and 11, a number of Vietnamese newspapers, including [...]

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Young survivor of Comoros crash heading to Paris

July 2, 2009
Young survivor of Comoros crash heading to Paris

Kassim Bakari, father of a teenage girl who miraculously survived the Yemenia airliner crash off the Comoros, in Corbeil-Essonnes, outside Paris. The only known survivor of the Yemeni airlines crash off the Comoros islands, Bahia Bakari, 12, was flying home to her father in Paris in a French government plane, officials said. Bakari survived the [...]

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American naval ship joins Vietnam MIA search

June 13, 2009

For the first time Vietnam has allowed a US Navy ship to be deployed to the country’s coast to search for the remains of US servicemen missing in action (MIA) during the Vietnam War. The USNS Bruce C. Heezen oceanographic survey ship, with representatives of the US Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and the Vietnam [...]

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No evidence of missing airliner found by French forces: minister

June 7, 2009
No evidence of missing airliner found by French forces: minister

France Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said on Friday that no evidence of an Air France airliner that disappeared over the Atlantic has been found by French forces. Crew of a Brazilian Air Force remote sensing aircraft R99 discuss the search work in Recife, northeastern Brazil, June 5, 2009. Brazilian air force on Thursday announced that [...]

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More Flight 447 debris found, black box hardly retrievable

June 4, 2009
More Flight 447 debris found, black box hardly retrievable

More debris from the Air France Flight 447 has been found on Wednesday, but the whereabouts of its black box remained a mystery. Brazil’s Defense Minister Nelson Jobim attends a press conference held in Brasilia, Brazil, June 3, 2009. Brazil Tuesday confirmed the debris found earlier on the open Atlantic Ocean belonged to Air France [...]

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Restoring the paths to victory

May 17, 2009
Restoring the paths to victory

LookAtVietnam – On March 13, 1954, the Vietnamese army opened fire with 40 artillery pieces, beginning the first offence on Him Lam Hill (Beatrice). 3.9km of the former artillery trail, which goes over several steep slopes and around dangerous bends, has been restored by the Ha Noi Construction and Consultation Joint-stock Company.LookAtVietnam – On March [...]

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Google search gets smarter

March 25, 2009
Google search gets smarter

Google on Tuesday rolled out two new improvements to its popular Internet search service which its engineers said will help guide users more effectively to the information they need. The Google booth is seen at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in this Jan. 5, 2006 file photo. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)“Starting today, we’re deploying [...]

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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...