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  • Vietnam successfully test-flies drones

    Vietnam Sunday successfully conducted test flights of six indigenously-made unmanned aerial vehicles, a media report said. The "made-in-Vietnam" drones flew over the Central Highlands Lam Dong province, Xinhua reported citing the Van Hoa The Thao (Culture and Sports) newspaper. After three days of tests - May 17-19 - in Da Lat city and Lac Duong district of Lam Dong, six vehicles made by the ...

  • Russian dies in Vietnam after fight with compatriot

    A Russian tourist died in Vietnam after a fight with a compatriot and fellow-traveller in the coastal city of Nha Trang. The two Russians, who were travelling in Vietnam together and shared a room at a hotel in Nha Trang, entered a heated argument that resulted in a fight, the Tuoi Tre news website said. In the course of the fight, one of them inflicted a wound in the neck of the other with a ...

  • Water shortage hits suburban Ha Noi

    Water shortage hits suburban Ha Noi HA NOI (VNS)-- A shortage of clean water has hit residents in many of Ha Noi's suburban districts, leaving them no choice but to spend over the odds on water or resort to using stagnant pond water. In Thanh Oai District, residents in the communes of Tam Hung, Thanh Thuy and Xuan Duong have lost all access to tap-water. Resident Luong Thanh Thuy told ...

  • Rice left on roads endangers traffic

    Rice left on roads endangers traffic DIEN BIEN (VNS)-- Twice a year, during the harvest season, farmers in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien place straw and grains to dry them along major highways. While this raises the risk of traffic accidents, local authorities are reluctant to impinge on residents' livelihoods by doing away with the grains. "Local farmers depend ...

  • Hydro lake depleted of fish due to ‘poor management

    Hydro lake depleted of fish due to 'poor management' DIEN BIEN (VNS)-- Fish have become depleted in an artificial lake in northern Dien Bien Province's Dien Bien District due to lack of management and co-operation among vested interest groups while calls for action by local commune leaders and residents have gone unheeded. Pa Khoang Lake supplies water to the hydro plants of ...

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Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation

There is no shortage of firepower in Terminator Salvation, the fourth film in the time-bending sci-fi series that began back in 1984 when James Cameron cast Arnold Schwarzenegger as a monosyllabic cyborg sent back in time from the machine-run future to kill the mo ... ...

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  • Hospital upgrade to cost $23.8m

    Hospital upgrade to cost $23.8m HA NOI (VNS)-- The municipal Health Department started a new project yesterday to upgrade and expand Ba Vi General Hospital with total investment of VND500 billion (about US$23.8m). The current hospital in Ba Vi District was constructed 20 years ago and was previously part of the then Health Centre of Ba Vi, a rural district located about 60km west of Ha Noi. ...

  • Poor workers to get small loans

    Poor workers to get small loans HCM CITY(VNS)-- The Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour has proposed expanding a HCM City-based microfinance fund to help more poor households take out low-interest loans, according to Mai Duc Chinh, deputy head of the conference. Although the Capital Aid Fund for Employment of the Poor provides small loans averaging VND7 million (US$337) each to millions ...

  • City fixes flood areas but new ones emerge

    HCM CITY (VNS)-- HCM City will not suffer serious flooding in the coming rainy season, a senior official says. Nguyen Hoang Anh Dung, deputy director of the Steering Centre of the Urban Flood Control Programme, said the municipal administration has accorded high priority to the task of preventing floods. Several measures taken over the last few years have proved effective, he said, noting that ...

  • Tra Vinh official arrested for bribery

    Tra Vinh official arrested for bribery TRA VINH (VNS)-- Police in the southern province of Tra Vinh have arrested chief inspector of the provincial agriculture and rural development department for allegedly accepting bribes from two local fertiliser production companies. Nguyen Van Troi, 44, had been in charge of fertiliser quality inspections in the province before being detained on ...

  • Workers killed when lift falls 18 floors

    Workers killed when lift falls 18 floors HA NOI (VNS)-- Three workers were killed on a construction site in an urban area of Ha Dong District after an elevator apparently felt from the 18th floor to the ground on Saturday morning. According to co-workers, they heard an extremely loud noise at around 7am. Witnesses said that two of the men died instantly while the other succumbed to his ...

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