January 15, 2012
Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]
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November 21, 2011
Speeding and handing the wheels over to unlicensed drivers is not uncommon practice among container truck drivers, an investigation finds Rescuers carrying the body of a victim killed by an accident between a container truck and a bus that left 10 dead in Binh Thuan Province on November 7. The lack of container truck [...]
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October 27, 2011
A worker checks pipes and valves at Amaal oil field in eastern Libya October 7, 2011. Abdula Altako was killed in March guarding the oil field he worked for, one of the first but by no means the last of Libya’s oil workers to die defending the country’s lifeblood. Abandoned by their foreign owners during [...]
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September 20, 2011
A traffic police officer stops trucks at a mountain pass in Ha Tinh Province on July 24. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Bribing traffic cops to get away with driving overloaded trucks or trucks carrying illegal products is common practice among drivers on highways and roads across the country. A Tuoi Tre report says the situation is [...]
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September 3, 2011
Company sends goons to beat up protesters Nguyen Van Tuan was attacked by truck drivers on August 29 after he and others at Da Nang City’s Hoa Lien Commune blocked vehicles from entering a construction site. A survey by Nielsen found environmental concerns in Vietnam has shifted from climate change to environmental pollution. The [...]
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May 27, 2011
A damaged section of Road 723 in Lam Dong Province. Local authorities have blamed the damaged roads on heavy trucks travelling to and from the controversial Tan Rai bauxite mining plant. Several weeks from now, a controversial bauxite mining plant will process its first alumina batch in the Central Highlands. The project has attracted strong [...]
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November 8, 2010
Two trucks at a private parking lot in Binh Chanh, HCMC where the red military license plates have been put on civil vehicles Many transport firms in Ho Chi Minh City are putting a military coat on their trucks to ease their way past traffic police.  They rent military trucks that are out of date, [...]
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January 21, 2010
A bus killed one and sent eight more to the hospital when it spun out and ran through a crowd of people on a road in Da Nang that has seen 9 deaths and 40 injuries in only two years. Investigators blamed the accident, one of three at the spot early Tuesday morning, on mud [...]
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January 17, 2010
A resident carries Samael Jachond, who was rescued from the remains of his house, four days after the earthquake Tensions rose among desperate Haitians awaiting international aid and hunting for missing relatives on Saturday as aid began to trickle in four days after an earthquake that Haitian authorities say killed 200,000 people. Haiti’s shell-shocked government [...]
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December 12, 2009
Hanoi was once considered “a city of green trees” but the rapidly developing capital faces a daily battle to maintain a presentable face. Around the clock city council cleaners traipse the streets of Hanoi collecting trash, which has been unceremoniously dumped by city residents or left behind by vendors or street side stalls. At 2am [...]
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