Caught Fire

Dead fishermen to be cremated, brought home

The bodies of two Vietnamese fishermen who died in the South Korean boat fire at the Uruguayan port of Montevideo last week will be incinerated before repatriation

One… more motorbike mysteriously caught fire

A Honda Air Blade motorcycle unexpectedly caught fire while the driver was driving on Pham Van Dong Street of Hanoi’s Tu Liem District this morning

Car hits pothole, burnt down

A four-seat car with number plate BKS 30N-6274 on Wednesday afternoon hit a pothole on a provincial road in Hung Yen Province and caught fire

3 cars, 2 bikes explode across country

3 cars and 2 motorbikes suddenly burst into flames on the last day of 2011 in 5 provinces and cities, causing serious burns to 2 people

Expert blames unqualified gasoline for bike fires

A university lecturer blamed poor-quality gasoline as a possible cause of the fires that have recently burned a series of motorbikes nationwide

One more motorbike burnt down

This is on top of a series of over 10 baffling cases in recent days when motorbikes unexpectedly burnt down by themselves

Bus burns in north, all 38 passengers escape

A 48-seat bus with 40 people on board, including the driver and his assistant, caught fire while traveling in Hoa Binh on Monday night

Mercedes car catches fire on street

A Mercedes sedan was wholly damaged in a sudden fire when it was traveling in Hanoi

Another Honda motorbike burned down

A woman burst into tears when her Lead scooter exploded in flames yesterday when she was riding it on National Highway 5 in Hung Yen Province

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of