Two students killed in bomb blast in Vietnam

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Báo Thanh Niên English 1 month(s) ago 1 related news

At least two of eight fifth-grade students injured by a bomb that exploded in the central Highlands province of Dak Nong on Tuesday have died, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported on the same day.

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Impounded vehicles turn into scrap metal

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Báo Dân Trí English 4 month(s) ago

Impounded vehicles turn into scrap metal

Thousands of cars, motorbikes and other vehicles which were confiscated or temporarily held by police in Hanoi for traffic violations are on the verge of turning into scrap metal.

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Wartime scrap reborn as works of art

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VietNam News English 5 month(s) ago

Wartime scrap reborn as works of art

Visitors to an exhibition that opened in Ha Noi on Monday praised the way Vietnamese people had used optimism, creativity and ingenuity during hard times to transform scrap metal from weapons into objects such as oil lamps, ashtrays, furniture and even musical instrument.

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Scrap collector loses hand to war-era bomb

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Báo Thanh Niên English 7 month(s) ago

The decade-long American bombardment of Vietnam claimed another casualty this week, one of over 100,000 injuries and deaths caused by unexploded ordnance here in the nearly 40 years since the war’s end.

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Argentine experts to help identify Vietnamese martyrs' remains

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Báo Thanh Niên English 7 month(s) ago

Argentine experts to help identify Vietnamese martyrs' remains

Analia Gonzalez, an Argentine expert, measures and marks a martyr’s corpse in Ho Chi Minh City before taking samples for DNA tests.

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500lb war-era bomb found in central Vietnam

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Báo Thanh Niên English 9 month(s) ago

A large unexploded bomb was successfully defused in Quang Tri Province’s Huong Hoa District on Friday. The work was carried out by a joint effort between the district military unit and project RENEW (Restoring the Environment and Neutralizing the Effects of the War) - a partnership between Quang Tri Province and international organizations to reduce the effects of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Vietnam. The bomb is about 1.5 meters long and weighs 227kg (500lb) and had been detected by scrap...

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2 killed in southern Vietnam as war-era shell explodes in house

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Báo Thanh Niên English 9 month(s) ago

A pregnant woman was among two people killed when a Vietnam War-era 155-milimeter artillery shell exploded in a house in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Wednesday.

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The dark Vietnam knight rises, complete with Batpod

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VietnamNet English 10 month(s) ago

The dark Vietnam knight rises, complete with Batpod

A young man in northern Vietnam is seen on a recent YouTube clip riding a replica of the Batman’s motorcycle or the Batcycle, causing a stir among fans of the superhero series. But is he a hero or a traffic violator?

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Philippine gun makers take aim from the backyard to the production line

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Báo Thanh Niên English 10 month(s) ago

Philippine gun makers take aim from the backyard to the production line

A former illegal gunsmith inspects a newly assembled multi-action shotgun at Shooters Arms, a gun manufacturing company exporting different kinds of weapons to other countries, in Cebu city in central Philippines July 7, 2012.

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Vietnam firm fined for importing plastic waste

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Báo Thanh Niên English 11 month(s) ago

The Da Nang administration Wednesday fined a company VND100 million (US$4,800) for importing more than 137 tons of plastic waste into the city's port.

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Unexploded Vietnam War bomb ignored for years

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Báo Thanh Niên English 12 month(s) ago

Authorities of Long An Province have done nothing for the past five years after a 500-kg bomb left from the Vietnam War was found in a field here, local residents said.

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11-year-old boy killed by Vietnam War bomb in Quang Binh

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Báo Thanh Niên English 12 month(s) ago

A boy in central Vietnam was killed and two others severely injured as they smashed a rusted iron ball for scrap metal without knowing it was a cluster bomb until it exploded.

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Pig farm construction unearths hundreds of UXOs in central Vietnam

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Báo Thanh Niên English 13 month(s) ago

Hundreds of bombs have been found in Nghe An Province in north central Vietnam as work began last week on establishing a big pig farm.

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Green workplace aids safety

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VietnamNet English 13 month(s) ago

Green workplace aids safety

VietNamNet Bridge – Already looking older than his 42 years, Nguyen Van Quy has unsettled his younger colleagues by coughing ceaselessly throughout the day. Quy, a scrap metal recycler at a small private workshop on Ha Noi's La Thanh Street, says he is fed up with medicine.

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Green workplace aids safety

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VietNam News English 13 month(s) ago

Green workplace aids safety

Already looking older than his 42 years, Nguyen Van Quy has unsettled his younger colleagues by coughing ceaselessly throughout the day. Quy, a scrap metal recycler at a small private workshop on Ha Noi's La Thanh Street, says he is fed up with medicine.

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