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Bus Plunges 60 Feet in One of Vietnam's Worst Crashes

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:15:05 CDT

A crowded overnight bus plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam last night, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents. The 50-seat coach lost control and ripped through the bridge's guardrails, diving about 60 feet and landing on its...

Vietnam Seeks Help With Deadly Mystery Illness

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:22:26 CDT

Vietnam has asked international health experts to help investigate a mystery illness that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in an impoverished district in the central part of the country, an official said today. The infection has mostly affected children and young people. It begins with a high...

SF Mass Murder Suspect Dodged Deportation

Rob Quinn — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:04:00 CDT

The man accused of the brutal murder of five people in San Francisco was only in America because his native Vietnam refused to take him back, the San Francisco Chronicle finds. After Binh Thai Luc served nearly a decade in prison for the 1996 robbery of a Chinese restaurant in...

Pocket of Asia Yields 208 New Species—in 1 Year

Mark Russell — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:18:24 CST

It's a region that produces a new species every other day: Carnivorous plants that can eat mice, birds, and lizards. An all-female species of lizard that reproduces by self-cloning. Brightly colored geckos bathed in orange, yellow, blue, and green markings. A noseless monkey that looks like it's wearing an Elvis...

Poachers Kill Vietnam's Last Rhino

Mark Russell — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:50:05 CDT

And then there were none. The World Wildlife Fund says poachers have killed Vietnam's last Javan rhinoceros, reports the AP . There were at least two rhinos in a national park in Vietnam as of 2004, the WWF says, and for the last few years they knew of one, but in...

Vietnam Names New President

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:39:40 CDT

Vietnam named a new president today, a largely symbolic post. Truong Tan Sang, 62, is a longtime rival of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Dung will likely be re-elected to his post, the country's most powerful, in a National Assembly vote tomorrow. The two are expected to be cordial as...

Jane Fonda: QVC Canceled Me Over Politics

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:39:08 CDT

Jane Fonda says she's been banished from QVC amid concerns about her political past; the network says it was a routine programming change. Fonda was set to appear on the home-shopping channel Saturday to promote her new book on aging, Prime Time . But the day before, she learned her segment...

Vietnamese Protest China as Tensions Rise

Mark Russell — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:37:04 CDT

Hundreds of people around Vietnam protested China today, as tensions between the two countries continue to rise, reports the AP . About 300 people chanted "Down with China" near the Chinese embassy in Hanoi, while more marched in Ho Chi Minh City and other locations. Relations have deteriorated between the two...

Agent Orange Cleanup Begins in Vietnam

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:54:05 CDT

Vietnam today started the first phase of a joint plan with former enemy the United States to clean up environmental damage leftover from the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, a lasting legacy from the Vietnam War. Vietnam's Ministry of Defense will begin sweeping areas around the Danang airport, a former US...