7 killed in Vietnam quarry rockslide

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HANOI — Seven workers, six of them women, were killed in a rockslide at a central Vietnam quarry and one laborer dug out from the rubble was in intensive care, officials said Friday.
“A huge rock collapsed when the laborers were working,” a local official told Agence France-Presse from the Ru Moc quarry in Thach Ban [...]

Hundreds of Vietnamese workers evacuated due to radioactive leak

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Hanoi (Xinhua): Between 400 and 500 workers of a limited-liability company in Vietnam were evacuated after a radioactive source used to inspect an oilrig was misplaced, according to local newspaper Ho Chi Minh City Law on Saturday.
The workers of the Alpha Maritime Engineering Technical Service Company were evacuated on Friday afternoon after the radioactive source [...]

Hundreds of Vietnamese workers evacuated due to radioactive leak

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200712291017.htm 
Hanoi (Xinhua): Between 400 and 500 workers of a limited-liability company in Vietnam were evacuated after a radioactive source used to inspect an oilrig was misplaced, according to local newspaper Ho Chi Minh City Law on Saturday.
The workers of the Alpha Maritime Engineering Technical Service Company were evacuated on Friday afternoon after the radioactive source [...]

Vietnam suspects bird flu killed young child

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HANOI, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Doctors suspect bird flu may have killed a four-year-old child in northern Vietnam, state-run radio said on Wednesday.
A Health Ministry official told a government meeting on Tuesday the child had a fever and serious pneumonia after eating chicken which died of unknown cause in the mountainous province of Son La, [...]

Vietnam must regulate blogs, say officials

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Vietnam needs to control blogs to prevent the spread of subversive and sexually explicit content, communist government officials said according to a state media report Wednesday.
Weblogs have exploded in Vietnam in recent years, especially among youths, providing a forum for chatting about mostly societal and lifestyle issues and providing an alternative to the state-controlled media.
Recent [...]

Vietnam ‘07 inflation above economic growth-report

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HANOI, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Vietnam’s economy is estimated to expand 8.44 percent this year but its inflation would be above the growth rate, with prices jumping to a record 12.6 percent in 2007, state-run newspapers quoted a government official as saying.
Planning and Investment Minister Vo Hong Phuc estimated higher prices of food and [...]

TO UNDERSTAND MODERN VIETNAM, LOOK TO ITS CONFUCIAN PAST

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Vietnamese students are in the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City protesting what they call a renewed Chinese “invasion” of the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the oil-and-gas-rich South China Sea. Their last war was a brief one in 1979, though less than two decades ago a confrontation near the Spratlys left several [...]

Tuoi Tre Chung Toi – Hoang Sa – Truong Sa

Youth delegates grill government on key issues

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Vietnamese youth need to develop a long-term vision and self-motivation and master information and technology if they want to be a part of globalization and the knowledge economy, a deputy prime minister said Thursday.
In the first-ever direct dialogue between the government and members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, held on the sidelines [...]

Snakes on a plane land in Vietnam: officials

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HANOI (AFP) — Vietnamese airport officials discovered a cargo of 700 live snakes on a Thai Airways flight from Indonesia but destroyed them after no-one claimed them, officials said Friday.
“The snakes were alive when they were found in the cargo,” a quarantine officer at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport told AFP. “Seven hundred snakes were [...]