Making our way up Mount Fansipan

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Báo Dân Trí English 2 month(s) ago 2 duplicate news

Making our way up Mount Fansipan

Mount Fansipan is only half as tall as Mount Everest. Yet this mountain, perched at the eastern edge of the Himalayan range in Vietnam’s uppermost Lao Cai province, is hardly an easy climb.

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Nepal woman scales Mount Everest twice within days

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Nepal woman scales Mount Everest twice within days

A Nepalese climber was confirmed on Monday as the first woman to scale Mount Everest twice in a single season, Guinness World Records said, after she made the second summit within days of the first.

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Tau Mount, where a man searches for 4,000 tons of gold

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VietnamNet English 10 month(s) ago

Tau Mount, where a man searches for 4,000 tons of gold

VietNamNet Bridge – Tau Mount in Binh Thuan province is hiding 4,000 tons of gold of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita. That is the belief of Mr. Tran Van Tiep, who has spent over half of his life to search for the treasure.

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Massive fault found beneath Japan's Mount Fuji

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 13 month(s) ago

Massive fault found beneath Japan's Mount Fuji

Japan's Mount Fuji may be sitting on a large, active fault that could trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, changing the shape of the mountain and devastating nearby communities, the education ministry said on Thursday.

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Opinions divided on planned cable car up Mount Fansipan

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VietNam News English 13 month(s) ago

Opinions divided on planned cable car up Mount Fansipan

Last week, Viet Nam News asked readers for their opinions about Lao Cai Province's controversial plan to build a cable car to the top of Mount Fansipan, the highest peak in Indochina. Here are some of the responses:

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Muslims gather on Arafat for peak hajj day

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Muslims gather on Arafat for peak hajj day

MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia, Nov 5, 2011 (AFP) - More than two million Muslims began massing Saturday on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat and its surrounding plain, marking the peak day of the largest annual pilgrimage.

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Masan Group raises $100 million from Mount Kellett

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Báo Đầu Tư English 30 month(s) ago 1 related news

Masan Group raises $100 million from Mount Kellett

Masan Group Corporation (MSN), one of Vietnam’s largest private sector business groups, announced on January 24 the successful investment from funds advised by Mount Kellett Capital Management LP, a multi-billion dollar US-based private equity group, into Masan Resources.

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Mount Kellett to buy into tungsten miner

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SaigonTimes English 30 month(s) ago 1 related news

HCMC – Vietnam’s Masan Group Corporation announced on Monday Mount Kellett Capital Management LP, a U.S.-based private equity group, would invest US$100 million for a 20% stake in the local firm’s subsidiary Masan Resources.

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Indonesia's Mount Merapi spews volcanic ash again

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VietnamNet English 33 month(s) ago

Indonesia's Mount Merapi spews volcanic ash again

Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, sent out hot volcanic ash again at 4:40 pm local time on Thursday, indicating it remains dangerous after a major eruption on Tuesday left at least 33 people dead and over 40,000 displaced.

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Swedish counselor in distress on Mount Fansipan

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VietnamNet English 35 month(s) ago 1 related news

Swedish counselor in distress on Mount Fansipan

VietNamNet Bridge – The counselor of the Swedish Embassy in Vietnam was seriously wounded after falling 2,900m on Mount Fansipan (3,143m) in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

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Mount Fuji turns to gold to entice investors

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 44 month(s) ago

Fancy some good luck in the new year? It'll cost you about $132,000 and comes in the form of a pure gold, diminutive replica of Japan's iconic Mount Fuji.

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More supports needed to deal with war legacies

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Báo QĐND English 17 month(s) ago

More supports needed to deal with war legacies

PANO – Few nations in the world but Vietnam is now facing such a huge residue of bombs, mines and unexploded objects left over by wars, which could mount to 800,000 tons lying here and there, either on the surface or underground all over the country. Especially, these lethal war legacies caused more than 100,000 casualties between 1975 and 2000, and the numbers continue to mount since as many as 1,500 local people and children are killed and more than...

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Bangladeshi, South Korean climbers die on Everest

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Bangladeshi, South Korean climbers die on Everest

A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world's highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said Tuesday.

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Japan man, 80, starts Everest ascent

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Báo Dân Trí English 6 day(s) ago 3 duplicate news

Japan man, 80, starts Everest ascent

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his ascent of Mount Everest, his website said, in a bid to become the oldest man to reach the roof of the world.

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High-altitude Everest brawl sparks police probe

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 3 week(s) ago

High-altitude Everest brawl sparks police probe

KATHMANDU – Police near Mount Everest are investigating reports of a fight on the upper reaches of the world's highest mountain between two foreign climbers and their Nepalese guides, officials said Sunday.

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