UPDATE: Typhoon Chan-hom on Crash Course with the Philippines.

Typhoon Chan-hom was upgraded last night from a severe tropical storm and is on a crash course with the northwest region of the Philippines. According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) Chan-hom has...

Halong Bay of Vietnam

My one and only reason to visit the Vietnam is Halong Bay, an archipelago with more than 3,000 islands in the north coast. Most of these islands is of rocks that emerge from the sea, like the picture on the side. Contrary to what we used to see in Brazil, has virtually no...

Found: the last two Aussies missing in action

Australian investigators have found the wreckage of a Canberra bomber lost in Vietnam in 1970, possibly closing one of the final chapters of Australia's involvement in the conflict. Lost with the bomber were...

Passenger caught with child's corpse in luggage

A 36 year-old Vietnamese man was caught at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat airport carrying an infant's dead body in his luggage. " HANOI: A Vietnamese airline passenger has been found carrying an infant's dead body in his luggage, a senior security official said Sunday. ...

Cambodia's Vietnamese Community Drawn into Sex Industry

BY MATTHEW RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Just as there is a pizza shop or deli on every corner in New York City, so too there is there sex for sale almost everywhere you look in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On the infamous street no. 63, customers meander nonchalantly in and out of...

The hidden charm of Phan Thiet

My recent trip to Phan Thiet City and especially the Sea Links Golf and Country Club made me discover the hidden charm of Vietnam. There is not far from Saigon . In recent years, Phan Thiet City, specifically the Mui Ne Beach district, has been transformed into a resort...

60000 visitors came to Danang for the DIFC 2009

Da Nang, Vietnam - The International Fireworks 2009 (DIFC 2009) has just ended, the Department of Industry Tourism - Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism Danang said the city received about 60,000 visitors, increase 20% compared to last yearAlthough it is not a high...

Ho Chi Minh Travel Guide

Ho Chi Minh City is still called ‘Saigon’ by locals and travellers, despite the official name change in 1975. Situated in southern Vietnam, on a huge curved part in the Saigon River, it's presently the Vietnam's...

19,000 Brit's have credit card info posted on Google

Google crawl cached 19,000 UK credit card details before a Vientamese website was shut down. The problem, anyone could look up the info since it was on an unsecured server. " "The credit card details of up to...

Tourism festivals in Quang Ninh, Vietnam

From 24 / 4 to 2 / 5, tourism festivals in Quang Ninh taken place with large-scale events such as chain operating street. reuniting heritage festival, culture and cuisine, fireworks expect to attract 500,000 visitors in and outside the country. Many vibrant activities will...

The Ca Tru file has been come to UNESCO

Ms. Nguyen Kim Dung - Head of Management of cultural heritage non-physical, Ministry of culture, tourism and sports of Vietnam, said: "UNESCO has received the proposal from Vietnam to recognize Ca Tru as an immaterial cultural heritage in need of urgent protection".On March...

Preserving 1000 year-old Thang Long-Hanoi culture

A project to build a library to store and preserve one thousand years of Thang Long culture has been built by Ha Noi Publishing House, said its director, Nguyen Khac Oanh.A project to build a library to store and preserve one thousand years of Thang Long culture has been...

NASCAR star brings Vietnam vet 'full circle'

Retired Master Sgt. Ed Brodey says his life came full circle when he met NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Jeff Gordon, who pilots the No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet sponsored by the company that employed Brodey’s father,...

A New Crisis For India Is Waiting To Explode

" by S Roychowdhury Mumbai’s 26/11, the Great Mutiny in Bangladesh, and now Lahore’s 3/3, all set against the overall background of the coming Lok Sabha elections brings a surfeit of diversion and spectacle to a hungry Indian media and its public to last for a while....

Vietnam's Spectacular Halong Bay

The scenery is breathtaking as you come to the shore of Halong Bay. Huge rocky monoliths jut out from the Gulf of Tonkin like rugged fingers, changing color constantly in the sunlight. There are literally thousands of limestone figures of all shapes and sizes. It is easy to...

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