The air force lost two fighter jets, in June and August. After the earlier crash, a CASA 212 coastguard plane hunting for the pilot and wreckage of a Russian-made Sukhoi SU-30 went down in bad weather, killing all nine people aboard.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) _ Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three military personnel on a helicopter that crashed into a mountain during a training flight in southern Vietnam in the latest in a series of accidents involving the military aircraft.
Security services were running around trying to keep people to one side, keep people calm, trying to move the injured people to one side.' 'People were wandering around not quite sure what was going on.
More than 1,000 veterans and their families have travelled to Vietnam to remember the most costly single battle fought by Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War, 18 of whom died as a result of the encounter.
Police on Thursday found 5.3 tonnes of pangolins scales hidden in a shipment from Nigeria at a port in southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province, according to Hai Quan, the official mouthpiece of Vietnam Customs.
The ship owner, Bergen-based Gearbulk, said the vessel was 155 nautical miles (287 kilometers) off Vietnam with a cargo of bauxite when it sent a distress signal that was picked up by the Japanese coast guard. The Philippine Foreign Affairs said the 190-meter (623-foot) long, baria 56,000-ton ship sank off the coast of Vung Tau, which is 96 kilometers (59 miles) from the southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City.
"I don't understand why the ship had the accident and sank," he was quoted as saying "I just knew that the ship, which was on its way, suddenly tilted. I just had time to put on life vest and jump into the sea."
Dr Lee Grismer, a herpetologist at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, and his son, Jesse Grismer, a doctoral candidate, flew to Hanoi and travelled to a little restaurant two-day's trip away where the owner had promised to set aside some of the lizards to be studied.
Determined: Dr Lee Grismer and his son, Jesse Grismer (left) arrive to find the lizards have been eaten. But all is not lost and they set a team of children with 'lizard traps' (right) to catch as many lizards as they can find
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) _ The bodies of two crew members of the Norwegian cargo ship which sank off the coast of southern Vietnam have been identified as the captain and deputy captain, state media reported Monday.
The incident comes after a succession of deadly accidents involving military planes and helicopters, at a time when Vietnam is adding to its shopping list as part of its biggest military buildup since the Vietnam War.
HANOI, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Vietnam's prime minister ordered the military to launch a rescue mission after a helicopter went missing on Tuesday during a training flight, the government said, in the latest in a series of aviation setbacks.
Rights groups have denounced poor conditions at the facilities and mass escapes occur periodically. The communist government decrees up to two years of forced rehabilitation at government centres to try to reduce drug use.
The ship's chief cook, Angelito Capindo Rojas, is the only known survivor. Their ship, the Bulk Jupiter, sank with 19 Philippino crew members on Friday en route from Malaysia to China, and Vietnamese rescuers aided by commercial ships passing through the area continued to search for the others, according to Vietnamese authorities and the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs.
Witness Mark Green, who had just arrived on a BA flight, told BBC News: 'As we were picking up the bags to put them into the back of the car, there was an almighty explosion. It reverberated through our bodies.'
Over one million pangolins have been plucked from Asian and African forests in the past decade, sold and consumed in Vietnam and China where burgeoning middle classes have fuelled appetites for illegal wildlife.
Domodedovo, located in the Domodedovsky District, 42 kilometres (26 miles) south-southeast of the centre of Moscow, is generally regarded as Moscow's most up-to-date airport, but its security procedures have been called into question.
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With SapereBas you can access the system and: - search for books and media using either a text search or a bar code search - find out if an item is available for loan - request or extend a loan and place reservations for items already on loan - save items in a personal bibliography - suggest a purchase - check your patron status From Data Management PA Solutions S.p.A.:
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Cargo ship sinks off Vietnam, captain confirmed dead
por Janice Woolcock (30/07/2020)
The air force lost two fighter jets, in June and August. After the earlier crash, a CASA 212 coastguard plane hunting for the pilot and wreckage of a Russian-made Sukhoi SU-30 went down in bad weather, killing all nine people aboard.HANOI, Vietnam (AP) _ Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three military personnel on a helicopter that crashed into a mountain during a training flight in southern Vietnam in the latest in a series of accidents involving the military aircraft.
Security services were running around trying to keep people to one side, keep people calm, trying to move the injured people to one side.' 'People were wandering around not quite sure what was going on.
More than 1,000 veterans and their families have travelled to Vietnam to remember the most costly single battle fought by Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War, 18 of whom died as a result of the encounter.
Police on Thursday found 5.3 tonnes of pangolins scales hidden in a shipment from Nigeria at a port in southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province, according to Hai Quan, the official mouthpiece of Vietnam Customs.
The ship owner, Bergen-based Gearbulk, said the vessel was 155 nautical miles (287 kilometers) off Vietnam with a cargo of bauxite when it sent a distress signal that was picked up by the Japanese coast guard. The Philippine Foreign Affairs said the 190-meter (623-foot) long, baria 56,000-ton ship sank off the coast of Vung Tau, which is 96 kilometers (59 miles) from the southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City.
"I don't understand why the ship had the accident and sank," he was quoted as saying "I just knew that the ship, which was on its way, suddenly tilted. I just had time to put on life vest and jump into the sea."
Dr Lee Grismer, a herpetologist at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, and his son, Jesse Grismer, a doctoral candidate, flew to Hanoi and travelled to a little restaurant two-day's trip away where the owner had promised to set aside some of the lizards to be studied.
Determined: Dr Lee Grismer and his son, Jesse Grismer (left) arrive to find the lizards have been eaten. But all is not lost and they set a team of children with 'lizard traps' (right) to catch as many lizards as they can find
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) _ The bodies of two crew members of the Norwegian cargo ship which sank off the coast of southern Vietnam have been identified as the captain and deputy captain, state media reported Monday.
The incident comes after a succession of deadly accidents involving military planes and helicopters, at a time when Vietnam is adding to its shopping list as part of its biggest military buildup since the Vietnam War.
HANOI, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Vietnam's prime minister ordered the military to launch a rescue mission after a helicopter went missing on Tuesday during a training flight, the government said, in the latest in a series of aviation setbacks.
Rights groups have denounced poor conditions at the facilities and mass escapes occur periodically. The communist government decrees up to two years of forced rehabilitation at government centres to try to reduce drug use.
The ship's chief cook, Angelito Capindo Rojas, is the only known survivor. Their ship, the Bulk Jupiter, sank with 19 Philippino crew members on Friday en route from Malaysia to China, and Vietnamese rescuers aided by commercial ships passing through the area continued to search for the others, according to Vietnamese authorities and the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs.
Witness Mark Green, who had just arrived on a BA flight, told BBC News: 'As we were picking up the bags to put them into the back of the car, there was an almighty explosion. It reverberated through our bodies.'
Over one million pangolins have been plucked from Asian and African forests in the past decade, sold and consumed in Vietnam and China where burgeoning middle classes have fuelled appetites for illegal wildlife.
Domodedovo, located in the Domodedovsky District, 42 kilometres (26 miles) south-southeast of the centre of Moscow, is generally regarded as Moscow's most up-to-date airport, but its security procedures have been called into question.
With SapereBas you can access the system and: - search for books and media using either a text search or a bar code search - find out if an item is available for loan - request or extend a loan and place reservations for items already on loan - save items in a personal bibliography - suggest a purchase - check your patron status From Data Management PA Solutions S.p.A.:
SapereBas is a new App for Basilicata Regional Council.
In 2004, two suicide bombers were able to board planes at Domodedovo by buying tickets illegally from airport personnel. The bombers blew themselves up in mid-air, killing all 90 people aboard the two flights.
With SapereBas you can access the system and: - search for books and media using either a text search or a bar code search - find out if an item is available for loan - request or extend a loan and place reservations for items already on loan - save items in a personal bibliography - suggest a purchase - check your patron status From Data Management PA Solutions S.p.A.:
SapereBas is a new App for Basilicata Regional Council.