At least 10 people were killed and five injured Wednesday when a truck overturned and tumbled off the side of a hill
in central Vietnam after its brakes failed.
The driver was among the injured but fled the scene, Colonel Nguyen Dang Viet, deputy (...)
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 (...)
A Vietnamese official and state-run media say an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has shuttered more than a dozen kindergartens after killing 109 children and sickening more than 52,000 this year, AP reported.
Nguyen Van Muoi says 10 (...)
Vietnamese plans for a memorial to war widows sparked an outcry Thursday when it was revealed that the cost had
spiralled to five times its initial estimate, according to dpa.
A park is being built to house a statue dedicated to heroic
mothers, (...)
Four people have died and thousands of hectares of rice paddy have been destroyed as heavy rain caused floods in central Vietnam over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday.
About 300 to 600 millimetres of rain on average fell on Nghe An and Ha Tinh (...)
Vietnamese police detained scores of people taking part in an anti-China rally in Hanoi on Sunday in defiance of a government order to end a string of demonstrations that has stretched three months.
It was the 11th anti-China rally in an (...)
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged
authorities to step up action against hand, foot and mouth disease
after this year's death toll hit 81, a government website said
Friday, dpa reported.
He called on local authorities to (...)
Vietnam has commissioned a safety study on the site
planned for the country's first nuclear power plant, following
warnings that it was less than 100 kilometres from a fault line, a
news report said Thursday, according to dpa.
Scientists have (...)
Vietnamese authorities on Thursday warned the public
to stop protesting against China, saying "hostile forces" were trying
to damage relations between the two countries, Hanoi's People's
Committee said in a statement Thursday, according to (...)
Nearly two-thirds of labourers working at one of two
controversial Chinese-run bauxite mines in Vietnam's Central
Highlands do not have permits, local media said Friday, according to dpa.
Up to 190 of the 312 Chinese labourers at Nhan Co (...)
Vietnamese authorities recovered the body of a man swept away by floods last week, bringing the death toll from Tropical Storm Haima to 17, officials said Monday.
Seven of the victims were struck by lightning as they worked in
rice fields, two (...)
Ten people died and four were missing after the tropical storm "Haima" hit Vietnam's northern and north-central coast, officials said Saturday.
Seven of the dead were struck by lightning as they worked in rice
fields, two were killed by a (...)
Officials and state media say flash floods and whirlwinds have killed two people, left three others missing and injured 80 in northern Vietnam, as AP reported.
Disaster official Tran Van Nham of Yen Bai province says Friday that authorities have (...)
Two adults and an 8-year-old boy died after being struck by lightning in Vietnam, authorities said Thursday, as heavy storms wreaked havoc in central provinces.
According to dpa, the two men were working in paddy fields and the boy was walking near (...)
More than 2,100 children in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City have contracted hand-foot-mouth disease in the past three months, 70 percent of patients are under three-year-old, and 11 children died, according to the City's Department of Health on (...)
Sixteen people, including six children, died when a
double-decker tour boat hosting a child's birthday party sank on the
Sai Gon River, dpa quoted officials as saying Saturday.
The boat was carrying 21 people when it sank amid heavy rain (...)
At least 20 people were feared dead Friday after a
tourist boat capsized amid heavy rain and strong winds in the Sai
Gon river, in southern Vietnam, dpa cited officials as announcing.
The two-deck boat was carrying about 50 people for a (...)
