A bus carrying 22 passengers plunged off a cliff along an expressway in Da Nang, leaving three dead and three others heavily injured. The accident took place around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday as Phuong Thanh Tung, 36, was driving the 40-seat bus owned by Quynh Huong company on La Son …
Read More »9 get death for trafficking 105 kg of drugs from Laos
A Nghe An Province court sentenced nine people to death and two others to life imprisonment on Monday for trafficking drugs from Laos and trading them in Vietnam. Tran Thi Mau, 56, the ring leader and eight members, aged 39-59, received the death penalty for trafficking 105 kg of drugs, …
Read More »$16B Long Thanh Airport’s lotus-inspired design takes form
Long Thanh Airport in Dong Nai Province is shaping up, featuring a lotus-inspired design, all thanks to a team of 4,000 workers and 2,000 machines driving the construction progress. B Long Thanh Airport’s lotus-inspired design takes form billionLong Thanh Airport’s lotus-inspired design takes form
Read More »Canada to cap international student permits amid housing crunch
Canada announced an immediate two-year cap on international student permits and said it would also stop giving work permits to some postgraduate students as it seeks to rein in record numbers of newcomers seen aggravating a housing crisis. The cap is expected to result in approximately 360,000 approved study permits …
Read More »BIS Hanoi student attending MIT-Nord Anglia STEAM trip
As part of the Nord Anglia family, a BIS student has had the opportunity to learn about the best of innovation at MIT. Fifty students from Nord Anglia schools around the world, including Jung Hyeonchan, a year-10 student from the British International School in Hanoi, gathered at the Massachusetts Institute …
Read More »Woman wanted for trafficking five people from Myanmar to Laos
Police in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are looking for a local woman who tricked and trafficked five people from Myanmar to Laos and sold them to an online human trafficking ring. Vu Thi Khanh Huyen, 25, a resident of Gia Lai’s Duc Co District, is now wanted …
Read More »Driver refuses alcohol check, hits traffic police before escaping
A car driver in central Nghe An Province hit traffic police officers with the vehicle after refusing to get his alcohol level checked. A traffic police team of Vinh City requested a man driving a Mazda car on Tran Phu Street to pull over for a check-up at around 8 …
Read More »White frost covers Vietnam’s northern mountain peak
A layer of frost blanketed Phia Oac peak in northern Cao Bang Province, as temperatures plunged below 0 degrees Celsius on Monday. Be Quoc Vinh, Director of Phia Oac – Phin Den National Park, said the frost appeared at 2:00 p.m., from an altitude of about 1,600 m up to …
Read More »White frost covers Vietnam’s northen mountain peak
A layer of frost blanketed Phia Oac peak in northern Cao Bang province, as temperatures plunged below 0 degrees Celsius on Monday. Be Quoc Vinh, Director of Phia Oac – Phin Den National Park, said the frost appeared at 2:00 p.m., from an altitude of about 1,600 m up to …
Read More »HCMC entrance congested as construction of metro line footbridge goes wrong
Traffic on a street at the eastern entrance to HCMC was heavily congested on Monday due to issues with the construction of a footbridge for the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line. Vehicles formed long rows on a section through Rach Chiec Bridge on Vo Nguyen Giap Street, heading towards downtown …
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