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As soon as learning that his fiancée had tortured his eight-year-old daughter to death at home in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Trung Kim Thai removed all related images from the family camera to eliminate criminal traces, but police have recovered them to clarify what actually happened in this striking case in Vietnam. Police of the city’s Binh Thanh District on Saturday said they had coordinated with functional agencies to restore all the videos deleted from the camera system in the apartment where the ill-fated little girl, N.T.V.A., was tortured to death by her stepmom, 26-year-old Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang on December 22, 2021. Trang had lived with A. and the girl’s father, 36-year-old Thai, at the apartment in Binh Thanh since May 2020, a month after the man divorced his wife. The recovered footage, which Thai had deleted after hearing Trang narrate her assaulting A., has not only provided further proof for her crime, but also showed how much he had been involved in the case, … [Read more...] about Vietnam police recover deleted footage, provide further proof for beaten-to-death girl case

A valley of Japanese apricot trees flanking National Highway 43, about seven kilometers from Moc Chau Town, Son La Province, northern Vietnam is attracting tourists from across the country thanks to the gorgeous blanket of white petals it has cast over the area. The 20-hectare apricot forest sits 60 meters below National Highway 43, where the white apricot flowers grow in clusters and give the illusion that the forest is covered in a fine veil of snow. An aerial photo of the entrance to the apricot valley from National Highway 43 in Son La Province, Vietnam. Photo: Vu Trung Kien / Tuoi Tre The Japanese apricot trees in Moc Chau blossom for about three weeks every January. The area is usually full of tourists hoping to take pictures among the majestic trees, but this year, due to COVID-19, there are fewer guests than usual. Japanese apricot flowers blossom along a road leading into the apricot valley in Moc Chau District, Son La Province, Vietnam. … [Read more...] about Japanese apricots turn northern Vietnam into white paradise

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has announced the investigation of the crash of a training plane belonging to the Aviation School New Zealand (ASNZ) at Chu Lai Airport in central Quang Nam Province. On January 12, the VN-C869 training plane, which is a Diamond DA20-C1 model, encountered a problem during its landing at the airport and rushed out of the runway, causing some parts of it damaged. However, the trainee pilot remained safe. The trainee, a 23-year-old Vietnamese, had successfully performed a flight around Chu Lai Airport on his own between 1:35 pm and 1:41 pm on the day, but the landing of his second flight at 1:47 pm was troubled. Pilot trainers of the ASNZ and Chu Lai air traffic control forces activated the emergency alarm right after the accident and informed relevant parties at the airport to approach the scene of the plane crash at 2:00 pm. The trainee fortunately managed to get out of the plane on his own and suffered neither injuries nor … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s aviation watchdog investigates training plane crash

Pay TV services via the over-the-top platform (OTT TV), also called online television, have become popular in Vietnam as it offers diverse options of entertainment and learning, especially when people stay more at home during COVID-19 travel restrictrion periods. OTT services – which refer to video, television or film content that viewers can access with a high-speed Internet connection instead of a cable TV or satellite TV subscription – provide users with more topics and categories than traditional television contents. TV sets were turned on almost all day in numerous families in Ho Chi Minh City during the time of social distancing at different levels due to COVID-19 from May 31 until the end of September last year, before the country began to reopen the economy in the new strategy of living safely with the coronavirus, according to a survey by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. During that period, two daughters of Nhat Vinh, a resident in Ho Chi Minh City, had to stay at home all … [Read more...] about OTT TV services increasingly popular in Vietnam amid pandemic

A serial traffic accident among a tractor-trailer, a refrigerator truck, a dump truck, and a passenger bus on Bao Loc Pass en route to Da Lat City in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong injured four people on Monday. The tractor-trailer steered by Hoang Dinh Quang, a 37-year-old resident of Ho Chi Minh City, on its way from Da Lat to the southern city suddenly overturned at the beginning of a sharp bend on Bao Loc Pass at around 1:00 pm on the day. Its shipping container fell on the refrigerator truck controlled by Phan Chi Cuong, 28, living in Lam Dong, traveling in the opposite direction. The tractor-trailer went on to collide with a passenger bus behind the refrigerator truck, causing a dump truck at the back of the passenger bus to rear-end the bus. The scene of a serial traffic accident on Bao Loc Pass in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, January 18, 2022. Photo: P.Q. / Tuoi Tre Nguyen Tri Tuan, 45, from Ho Chi Minh City, drove the passenger bus … [Read more...] about Four injured in pile-up on pass in Vietnam’s Central Highlands

Vietnam looks to master technology in renewable energy Under the planning, offshore wind power will be given priority in the near future. Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Electricity and Renewable Energy Department Hoang Tien Dung said Vietnam is gradually mastering advanced technologies, developing human resources and investing in important technical infrastructure to lay a solid foundation for energy application and development. He added that Vietnam still much relies on imported technology to develop wind power so that the country needs to stay more active in building projects and producing spare parts, towards increasing the rate of domestically-made items. Dung also suggested developing biomass and geothermal energy, and even energy derived from tides and sea waves in the future. According to him, apart from developing a smart grid, technology related to energy storage is also a good orientation. When renewable energy is developed at a … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES JANUARY 3

Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has requested ministries, sectors and localities to closely coordinate with Chinese agencies to speed up customs clearance, striving to have no congestion of cargo trucks at border gates before Tet. Trucks are congested at the Tan Thanh Border Gate, Lang Son Province. The Deputy Prime Minister emphasised this task at an online meeting on January 8 between the Government and localities to solve goods still congested at the northern border gates. This is the second urgent meeting of the Government within 10 days to deal with this situation. In the past few days, the agencies of the two countries worked closely to open more border gates and increase the working hours for customs clearance of goods. Local authorities also provided information about goods congestion at the border gates and advised firms to not transport more goods to those sites. However, the number of trucks congested at the border gates is still high. There are still … [Read more...] about Goods congestion at border gates needs to be solved before Tet: Deputy PM

Trucks are congested at the Tân Thanh Border Gate, Lạng Sơn Province. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Deputy Prime Minister Lê Văn Thành has requested ministries, sectors and localities to closely coordinate with Chinese agencies to speed up customs clearance, striving to have no congestion of cargo trucks at border gates before Tết ( Lunar New Year) holidays. The Deputy Prime Minister emphasised this task at an online meeting on January 8 between the Government and localities to solve goods still congested at the northern border gates. This is the second urgent meeting of the Government w ithin 10 days to deal with this situation. In the past few days, the agencies of the two countries worked closely to open more border gates and increase the working hours for customs clearance of goods. Local authorities also provided information about goods congestion at the border gates and advised firms to not transport more goods to those sites. However, the number of trucks … [Read more...] about Goods congestion at border gates needs to be solved before Tết: Deputy PM

The image of a mysterious object falling from the sky into a field in Phu Tho Province, northern Vietnam went viral on social media in the country earlier this week. Vi Thi Lan, chairwoman of Dong Thanh Commune in Phu Tho’s Thanh Ba District, confirmed on Monday afternoon that the unidentified object had been discovered in the locality at around 7:00 pm on Sunday. “Upon the report of local people on the case, I requested the commune’s deputy chairman and head of public security to examine the scene,” Lan said. At the site of the discovery, there was a plastic bag about 15 meters long and five meters wide, with a one-meter-wide opening formed by bamboo and steel wire. This collage circulated on social media shows a Myanmar kyat note and the outer part of a mysterious object falling down from the sky in Phu Tho Province, Vietnam, January 2, 2022. A Chinese TV series character was printed on the outside of the bag, along with cloth and a Myanmar 10,000 kyat … [Read more...] about Northern Vietnamese province detects flying object with Burmese banknote

Three people were killed in a propane explosion that set fire to a rented house in Hoang Mai District, Hanoi on Monday evening. An officer of the People’s Committee of Dinh Cong Ward in Hoang Mai District, confirmed the deadly accident on Tuesday morning. Residents of Alley 18 on Dinh Cong Thuong Street in Dinh Cong Ward heard a loud explosion at around 9:00 pm on Monday. The roof of a rented house down the alley was blown off by the explosion, before issuing fire and smoke. Functional forces in Hoang Mai District sent several fire trucks and firefighters to the scene following reports of the blaze. The scene of a fire caused by a gas explosion in Hoang Mai District, Hanoi, January 3, 2022. Photo: Thuy Lieu / Tuoi Tre The fire was put under control by 10:00 pm on Monday. However, three victims trapped inside the burning house were already dead. Officials determined that a propane explosion had caused the fatal accident. A married couple were living in … [Read more...] about Fire caused by gas explosion kills three in Hanoi