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Flooding triggered by torrential rains during the past days has badly affected the central region in Vietnam as many houses have been inundated and traffic in several major streets and highways remains closed. Thousands homes in Quang Binh central province are now under water, forcing thousands people to live on their house roofs. Several major [...]
A powerful typhoon that barreled through Japan and threatened the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant killed at least 10 people including a woman aged 101, according to officials and reports. Typhoon Roke, which churned across the main island of Honshu and through the already disaster-ravaged northeast, caused flooding and triggered landslides in an echo of [...]
Eleven people were killed and 14 people were missing after a traditional boat sank off Indonesia’s Bali island, a search and rescue agency official said on Wednesday. ‘We are still searching for 14 missing people from the boat, which sank late Tuesday. Eleven people have been found alive,’ Bali search and rescue agency head I [...]
About 200 hectares of coffee, tea and fish pools in Bao Lam District, Lam Dong Province have been polluted by the wastewater released by the Tan Rai bauxite plant that contains sodium hydroxide (NaOH). Tran Duong Le, deputy director of the Management Board of the Lam Dong Aluminum-Bauxite Complex Project, said NaOH had indeed entered [...]
56-year-old Nguyen Van Hoa died from an elevator accident yesterday morning when he tried to jump out, slipped and fell, a witness said. Hoa was visiting his nephew at CT3 Yen Hoa Apartment in Cau Giay District at the time of the accident. He took the elevator which stopped between the fourth and fifth floor [...]
A Vietnamese passenger and two pilots were killed when a small passenger aircraft of a Haitian airline crashed while trying to land during heavy rain in northern Haiti on Tuesday night. The Vietnamese passenger was 33-year-old Nguyen Huu Duc, the Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba confirmed yesterday, citing a notice from Natcom Telecom Company, a joint [...]
A storm was detected near the East Sea at 13:00 pm this morning with its center in the north of Luzon Island in the Philippines. The strongest winds near the center have been measured at force 14 (150 to 166km per hour) with gusts exceeding force 16-17. It is forecast that in the next 24 [...]
Vietnam’s representative Daniela Nguyen Thu May has finished third at the Miss Supranational held in Plock (Poland) Friday. Born to a Vietnamese father and a Czechoslovakian mother, the 22-year-old student, whose foreign name is Daniela Nguyen Nova from the Czech Republic is the first Vietnamese beauty to enter the top 5 of an international beauty [...]
After a year of investigation, police in Tien Giang Province bafflingly found out a strange fact: a local prisoner somehow managed to commit eight frauds while being jailed inside a tightly-guarded prison by claiming to be a policeman or even …a prison warden. Phan Cao Giang, 34, who is serving a 14-year sentence for swindling, [...]
The Border Guard Force of the central coastal city of Da Nang has handed over a Filipino fisherman to the Philippine Embassy in Vietnam. The fisherman, Bochito Lagdamin, 43, from Negros island of the Philippines, was rescued by Vietnamese fishing boat DNa 90258 on July 10, when was in distress at sea in the Truong [...]