Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation’s power grid.
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation’s power grid.
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation’s power grid.
Chinese authorities have returned 10 children who were abducted and taken from Vietnam.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will auction off in April the 94,000 bags of Vietnam rice it seized at the port here in September last year. The smuggled rice from Vietnam is worth at least P135 million, a ranking Customs official said.
Early in the Vietnam War, the U.S. military trained former Maj. Sar Phouthasack in special combat operations and sent him back into his native Laos to put together a local force to patrol the Ho Chi Minh Trail, rescue downed U.S. pilots and conduct sensitive operations behind enemy lines.
Vietnam on Monday sentenced 22 activists to lengthy jail terms ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment, a defence lawyer said, in one of the country’s largest subversion trials for years.
An Australian researcher who discovered a new species of flying frog near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and named it after her mother said Tuesday it was a rare find so close to such a big city.
HANOI, Vietnam—A court in central Vietnam has put on trial 14 activists accused of allegedly carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the communist government amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent. Defense lawyer Tran Thu Nam says the trial opened in the central province of Nghe An on Tuesday amid tight security. Nam said [...]
A group of Vietnamese have demonstrated against China amid rising tensions over Beijing’s claims to the South China Sea.
A mortar shell left from the Vietnam War has exploded in a southern village, killing four children and seriously injuring five other people.
Vietnamese authorities are refusing to stamp Chinese passports featuring a map that includes disputed islands in the South China Sea as Chinese territory. They are instead issuing visas on a separate piece of paper.
The controversy over the allegedly smuggled 94,000 bags of Vietnam rice worth P141 million continued to brew after three of the consignees of the National Food Authority denied they ordered the importation while another organization not on the list claimed ownership of part of the shipment.
The 94,000 bags of imported rice from Vietnam worth P112.8 million face possible confiscation after the National Food Authority (NFA) in Albay failed to present the necessary import permits on Wednesday to prove that the cargo was not smuggled, said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Bicol.
