A total of 34 traffic accidents occurred across the country, claiming 21 lives and leaving 23 injured on April 30, the first day of the four-day holiday.
Hail storms have killed one and injured two people in Ha Giang province on April 19, according to the provincial steering committee on natural disasters.
At least ten people died and ten others were injured after suffocating chemicals leaked from a fire extinguisher system inside the basement of a major bank in Bangkok, Thailand.
As many as 334 traffic accidents occurred nationwide during the first 8 days of the nine-day Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday (February 6-13), claiming 210 lives and injuring 331 others.
As many as 31 traffic accidents occurred nationwide on February 6, the first day of the nine-day Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, killing 22 people and injuring 27 others.
Muslim rebels on December 24 launched a series of attacks in the southern Philippines, killing seven Christian farmers, according to the country’s military.
The Philippines’ troops said on December 15 at least 13 Abu Sayyaf insurgents were killed while the government army had two lost and ten injured in a fighting in Basilan province, South Philippines.
Vietnam recorded as many as 11,179 traffic accidents, killing 4,478
people in the first half of this year, the National Traffic Safety
Committee said in a report released on June 24.
Vietnam recorded as many as 9,318 road traffic accidents in five months,
from December 16 to May 15, according to the National Traffic Safety
Committee.