Archive for October, 2008

Fire at Tan Son Nhat Airport

My house is located 3 minutes walking from Tan Son Nhat airport in Vietnam. On Monday morning, 27 October 2008 at about 2:45AM the domestic terminal got fire. Many fire trucks could be heard rushing to the airport and it took several hours to get the fire under control. When I went to work the [...]

Traffic Accidents

It has been a while that we spoke about traffic accidents in Vietnam. The mandatory of wearing of helmets for motor bikers were introduced last year and what is the result? A total of 9,500 traffic accidents were registered during the first 3 months of 2008. Of course there must have been many more because [...]