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A masked man broke into an airline ticket agency in the southern coastal city of Vung Tau on April 25, put a knife to the throat of its owner and demanded money. He fled but was later captured. The robber pressed the knife on 44-year-old Dang Thu Hien, the agency’s head, and demanded her employees [...]
Vietnam’s first hovercraft, made by a group of students at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, is on a trial run on the city’s Saigon River. During the test that began yesterday and will end May 18, the group checked the boat in straight movement, rotation, and in rescuing people drifting on the [...]
Game distributors complained that their profits have decreased significantly due to the absence of the big gamers. Big gamers are absent in the game village In the past, the “game village” was once very bustling thanks to the participation of the “big guys” who were ready to spend billions of dong to play games. However, [...]
A bus carrying nearly 60 passengers broke the banisters of Serepok Bridge on National Highway 14, which connects Dak Lak and Dak Nong provinces in central Vietnam, to fall into the river at night of May 17. Thirty-four people died. According to initial report, the bus, owned by a transport cooperative in Da Lak, was [...]
Representatives from the government and thousands of people gathered in northern Quang Ninh Province on April 27 to celebrate the official recognition of Ha Long Bay as a new world wonder. Ha Long Bay was officially recognized as a new world wonder. Attending the ceremony, chairman of the New7Wonders Foundation, Bernard Weber, presented the certificate [...]
A couple and their two children were killed in a fire at their house, also a jewelry shop, in Co District, Can Tho City yesterday. 41-year-old Phan Ngo Huynh, his wife Nguyen Thi Tuyet Van, 37, and their two kids, Phan Kim Ngan, 12, and Phan Thanh Dat, 2, were burnt to death when the [...]
Yesterday more than 1,000 residents in Lien Hiep Commune, Phuc Tho District, Hanoi, still remained on at the premise of the commune People’s Committee to demand their land back that they said had been wrongfully occupied by the authorities. They flocked to the committee’s office on Thursday morning, carrying banners demanding the authorities to give [...]
The prices of domestic gold bullion have to follow its world counterpart, as the government has announced a state monopoly in gold bullion production and trading. Domestic gold prices have recently been some VND1-2 million a tael higher than the world’s average. The difference must be eliminated with the recent move of the government which empowered the [...]
Two three-month-old moon or Asiatic black bears have been rescued after being illegally transported in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa. On April 7th, Trung Nho Tu, director of Pu Hu Nature Reserve of Thanh Hoa agency for forest management, said that they have successfully rescued the bears (one male, one female) and have been [...]
Vietnamese and Lao law enforcement agencies have confiscated a tonne of marijuana and 15kg of heroin from criminals, the largest amount of drugs ever seized so far. On April 7, the Ha Tinh province border guards and the Bolikhamsai provincial police in Laos stopped a lorry with Lao number plates that was carrying one tonne [...]