Deputy spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang has clarified Vietnam’s viewpoint on the report that a documentary film about the search for the missing aircraft coded MH370 of Malaysia contains inaccurate content saying Vietnam did not cooperate to help with the search.
Thai officials announced that they had found a cyclinder of Caesium-137 that went missing from a power plant in Sri Maha Pho district at a steel foundry in Prachinburi province, 150km east of Bangkok, reported The Nation newspaper.
Indonesian authorities said on March 15 that two people were killed and four others were left missing in a landslide a day earlier in Bogor town, about 60km to the south of Jakarta capital.
A total of 35 residents are still declared missing in a landslide that crashed into an Indonesian village in Riau province’s Natuna district on March 6, according to head of the country’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Lieutenant General Suharyanto.
The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) recently organised a scientific workshop in The Hague to launch technical cooperation in identifying war remains.
The Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has announced that on February 4 night, a fishing boat sank off the coast of Sinan county in the province of Jeonnam, leaving 9 out of its 12 crewmembers missing, including two Vietnamese citizens, according to the Vietnamese Embassy in the RoK.
Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam received a delegation of the US National League of Families of American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA) in Hanoi on December 12.
The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and the International Committee for Missing Persons (ICMP) on October 31 signed a cooperation plan on improving the capacity of identifying human remains from the war.
The Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) on September 16 handed over a set of remains possibly belonging to a US serviceman who went missing during the war in Vietnam.
A body suspected of a missing person in a case of 40 Vietnamese fleeing a casino in Cambodia to return home was found in Binh Ghi river on August 20, said an official of An Phu district, the southern province of An Giang, the same day.
Greater Manchester Police on August 4 officially announced the identity of four Vietnamese citizens who had been reported missing in a blaze on May 7 in Bismark House Mill, in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
The Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) handed over remains of American soldiers missing in action during the war in Vietnam to the US in a ceremony held at Da Nang International Airport on June 30.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 15 (US time) had meetings with American friends who have stood by Vietnam and its people as part of his working visit to the US.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Israel is working closely with local agencies to clarify the fate of a Vietnamese student, named Nguyen Hai Binh, who is believed to have died in Israel, said Ambassador Do Minh Hung.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Israel has received information on a male Vietnamese citizen who has been missing in the Middle Eastern country since 2016, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At least two people were confirmed dead and 26 others were missing after a fishing boat carrying dozens of migrants sank off the coast of Indonesia, an Indonesian official said on March 21.
The number of deaths from the eruption of Mount Semeru volcano in Indonesia rose to 34, according to the country’s disaster agency latest report on December 7.
Three people died, four were injured and one went missing after torrential rains swept through northern and central provinces as of 5pm on October 17, according to the Standing Office of the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
The Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) on October 17 handed over remains of US servicemen missing in action during the war in Vietnam to the US.
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