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Killer Asia floods swallow children who can’t swim

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — It took only a second for the murky floodwaters swamping parts of Asia to swallow Nguyen Phuoc Hien’s baby. His 3-year-old daughter had been playing happily while her aunt studied, but somehow, the girl slipped quietly outside the family home deep in Vietnam’s southern Mekong Delta.
When Hien’s [...]

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Group: Last Javan rhino in Vietnam killed for horn

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has lost its fight to save its rare Javan rhinoceros population after poachers apparently killed the country’s last animal for its horn, pushing one of the world’s most endangered species closer to extinction, a conservation group said Tuesday.
Vietnam’s Cat Tien National Park has had no sightings, [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 25, 2011

Circus elephant kills girl in Vietnam: police

A circus elephant in Vietnam scooped up an 11-year-old girl with its trunk as she tried to feed it, threw her to the ground and trampled her to death, police said.
Nguyen Thao Anh was offering sugarcane to the animal in the city of Lao Cai, on the Chinese border, on Sunday when the attack happened, said police officer Phan Van Quang.
“She was trampled [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 17, 2011

Vietnamese woman cuts off Taiwan husband’s penis

A woman cut off her husband’s penis with a pair of scissors and threw the severed member into a river in revenge for his affair with another woman and his physical abuse, police in Taiwan said Sunday.
The 30-year-old Vietnamese woman, identified only by her surname, Pan, cut off about half her [...]

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Dognappers spark deadly violence across Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — It was already too late when Nguyen Van Cuong heard a neighbor shout “Thief! Thief!” Two men on a motorbike had snatched up his beloved pet dog “Black” and were whizzing away.
Cuong and the neighbor sprinted in vain as the professional dog thieves hurled bricks, one of them slamming into the [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 4, 2011

Vietnam firm pays ‘millions’ to free pirated ship

A Vietnamese shipping firm paid more than $2 million in ransom to free its crewmen held for months by Somali pirates, a company executive said after the sailors arrived home.
All 24 Vietnamese crew members landed on Friday at Hanoi’s Noi Bai international airport, Nguyen Truong Son, deputy general director of the Hoang Son Ltd Co, [...]

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China tensions rekindle Vietnam war debate

Nearly four decades after the end of a war which divided Vietnam, a debate over national reconciliation between former foes has been rekindled by tensions with China.
Despite government policies designed to woo its wartime opponents — many of whom fled abroad — those linked to the old US-supported regime in South Vietnam still feel stigmatised [...]

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Vietnam inflation eases, growth slows

Vietnam’s inflation rate eased for the first time in over a year in September, according to official estimates, but economic growth was lower amid government efforts to rein in prices.
The consumer price index (CPI) slowed to 22.4 percent year-on-year in September from 23 percent in August, the General Statistics Office reported on Saturday, following 12 [...]

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The India-Vietnam Axis

New Delhi sees Hanoi as a counterweight to Beijing, in the same way as Beijing sees Islamabad.
 
India is the latest country to get drawn into the South China Sea dispute. Earlier this month, Beijing told New Delhi that its permission was needed for India’s state-owned oil and gas firm to explore for energy in two [...]

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Rice exporters feel threatened

Cheaper neighbours’ supplies may be tapped
Thai rice exporters are already looking for alternative supplies from Vietnam and Cambodia in case the new government makes the price too dear for export, which could halve volume to only 5 million tonnes next year for a revenue loss of 60-70 billion baht.
The Thai Rice Exporters Association (TREA) has [...]

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