AlHijjah 21, 1432, Nov 17, 2011, SPA -- A traffic accident in northern Vietnam's Ha Long City has left two people dead, including a British woman, dpa quoted an official
as saying Thursday.
The accident happened on Wednesday morning, an official (...)
AlHijjah 13, 1432, Nov 9, 2011, SPA - Flooding has killed 22 people in central Vietnam over the past week, bringing the nationwide death toll over recent
months to 100, officials said Wednesday.
Seven people drowned over the weekend, and 15 have (...)
AlHijjah 12, 1432, Nov 8, 2011, SPA - More than 10,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas in central Vietnam as flooding claimed the life of a 6-year-old boy, local media reported Tuesday.
Landslides triggered by heavy rain have (...)
AlHijjah 8, 1432, Nov 4, 2011, SPA -- Farmers in the Mekong Delta are keeping hundreds of crocodiles in their homes and boats to stop them escaping during
heavy flooding, dpa cited local media as reporting Friday.
High water levels have flooded (...)
AlQa'dah 29, 1432, Oct 27, 2011, SPA -- Cases of hand, foot and mouth disease have jumped in
Vietnam, infecting nearly 78,000 people and killing 137 since
January, dpa quoted authorities as saying Thursday.
Last year, 11,000 cases and six (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA - Floods have killed 14 people in central provinces and the Central Highlands of Vietnam in the last week, raising the
national death toll to 70 over the past month, authorities said Monday.
Five people were (...)
AlQa'dah 22, 1432, Oct 20, 2011, SPA -- Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Thursday lowered
Vietnam's economic growth target for the next five years from 7.5 per
cent to 6.5 to 7 per cent annually as part of an effort to reform an
economy that (...)
AlQa'dah 13, 1432, Oct 11, 2011, SPA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed trade and other agreements with her Vietnamese counterpart during her first visit to the country Tuesday.
The agreements covered politics, trade and investment, justice, (...)
AlQa'dah 2, 1432, Sep 30, 2011, SPA A -- tropical storm barreled toward Vietnam Friday, forcing 20,000 people to be evacuated, as Philippines braced for a new typhoon and swathes of India, Thailand, Pakistan and China reeled under floods after some (...)