• Tourists trapped in lift in central Vietnam  

    06/06/2011 05:00

    The lift system at the Ngu Hanh Son Tourism Area, where 19 passengers were left hanging for nearly 30 minutes on Sunday. The US$828,460 lift has repeated problems and this time panic ensued with two children passing out before their release....

  • Dead elephant found in Dak Lak 

    05/06/2011 05:00

    Dak Lak Province authorities have incinerated the body of a baby elephant found in Yok Don National Park last Wednesday.   Nguyen Con, Yok Don park ranger, said they found the...

  • Further probe ordered into duck killing case 

    05/06/2011 05:00

    A central court has requested additional probe into a case of a father and son killing dozens of a neighbor’s ducks for feeding them on their rice field.   According to the...

  • 7 killed in 3 consecutive accidents on National Highway 

    04/06/2011 05:00

    Seven people were killed and five others injured, on Friday evening,  in a trio of highway accidents on a section of the National Highway 1A in the northern Vietnamese province of Ha Tinh. The...

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 5/6

    04/06/2011 05:00

    Country to face heat wave The national weather bureau informed yesterday afternoon that the country would face heat wave conditions during the next few days. Temperatures will gradually rise in the northern and central regions within the next few days,...

  • Drunken passenger fined for disrupting Vietnam Airlines flight 

    03/06/2011 05:00

    A drunken Australian passenger was fined VND5 million (US$243) for disrupting a Vietnam Airlines flight on Wednesday, the national carrier said. During the flight from Australia to Vietnam, Barnes Graeme screamed and hit a...

  • Bus driver gets 7 years' imprisonment for fatal accident 

    03/06/2011 05:00

    The bus was swept away by flood waters into the Lam river, killing 20 people on October 18, 2010. A court in central Vietnam on Thursday sentenced a bus driver to 7 years in jail for crashing the bus into a flooded river, which led to the...

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