May 20, 2009
LookAtVietnam – An unforeseen increase in rainfall and tide levels may reduce the effectiveness of major water drainage projects underway in Ho Chi Minh City, experts warn. Traffic squeezes around street barriers set up because of water drainage projects in HCM City.LookAtVietnam – An unforeseen increase in rainfall and tide levels may reduce the effectiveness [...]
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May 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – An unforeseen increase in rainfall and tide levels may reduce the effectiveness of major water drainage projects underway in Ho Chi Minh City, experts warn. Traffic squeezes around street barriers set up because of water drainage projects in HCM City.LookAtVietnam – An unforeseen increase in rainfall and tide levels may reduce the effectiveness [...]
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May 18, 2009
Traffic squeezes around street barriers set up because of water drainage projects in HCMC. An unforeseen increase in rainfall and tide levels may reduce the effectiveness of major water drainage projects underway in Ho Chi Minh City, experts warn. The projects are based on old hydrometeorology statistics and will likely fail to handle the actual [...]
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March 20, 2009
The 5.5m, 300kg trumpet crafted four years ago by farmer Dinh Van Manh, 64, in Xuan Tien commune, Xuan Truong district, Nam Dinh province, is still the largest one in Vietnam. The huge trumpet was made accurately in every detail. One only needs to blow lightly on the trumpet to make sweet sounds. “This trumpet is [...]
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March 12, 2009
U.S. space shuttle Discovery’s launch to the International Space Station is now targeted for no earlier than March 15, NASA said in a statement on Wednesday. The space shuttle Discovery sits on launch pad 39A as it is fueled for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in this May 31, 2008 [...]
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February 2, 2009
Such a scene like this is common in Ho Chi Minh City and its surrounding neighborhoods. The city has been dealing with flooding caused by high tides by installing exhaust valves along river banks. Ho Chi Minh City has hit upon dredging drains and installing sluice gates to act as exhaust valves along river banks [...]
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