Vietnam

News

Mark Zuckerberg’s Amazing Race Luxury Vacation Revealed

6:00AM December 28, 2011 | Sam Biddle

What do you when you have more money than Christ and an appetite for fried foods? You head to Red Vietnam for a getaway replete with lavish meals, private yachts, helicopters, and goat-catching. We have Mark Zuckerberg’s exclusive holiday itinerary. More »


Science

Mystery Condition Stole This Young Woman’s Youth

11:40AM October 14, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

In a bizarre medical mystery that’s like watching the life of Benjamin Button in reverse, a Vietnamese woman has appeared to age almost five decades in just three years after suffering an allergic reaction. More »


News

Brazilian Ranchers Using Agent Orange To Illegally Clear Rainforests

2:18AM July 7, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Agent Orange is a forest-clearing herbicide that killed over 400,000 people during the Vietnam War. Almost 40 years later, ranchers in the Amazon region of Brazil are still using the substance to illegally clear out 440 acres of rainforest. More »


How Am I Supposed To Land My Helicopter On This Bank Roof, Eh?

8:20PM October 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

When a “V” this large is beamed into the sky, questions must be asked. I don’t think the Vietnamese bank VietinBank is on a vendetta, however – unless the “situation” between the north and south is worse than I thought. More »


Foxconn Scrapping Suicide Compensation To Stop Deaths

7:19PM June 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Aha, now this is all making much more sense. Foxconn raised wages by 30 per cent, and then a further 66 per cent on top of that – and now has scrapped the compensation for families of the deceased. More »


Leak: iPod Touch With 2MP Camera Surface In Vietnam

9:38PM May 19, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

From the same Vietnamese site that leaked yesterday’s plastic MacBook update (and the iPhone 4), comes a plethora of well-shot iPod Touch photos showing a 2MP camera. It looks remarkably similar to the iPods that appeared on eBay last month. More »


Computing

MacBook Refresh Detailed In Vietnamese Leak

11:16PM May 15, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

In what’s only the second most interesting Vietnamese leak of an Apple product this week, Tinhte has scored what seems to be a soon-to-be-announced refreshed MacBook, including a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU. More »


Vietnamese Audiophile Turns a Room Into One Giant Speaker

9:40AM April 15, 2009 | Sean Fallon

The details are lost in translation so I’m not entirely sure what has been done, but it is clear that someone with the handle Giahy on the VNAV.vn forum has built one crazy speaker system.

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Cameras

A Vietnam Reporter’s 8mm Camera Gun (If Looks Could Kill)

6:20AM January 29, 2009 | Mark Wilson

While most people on the front lines would hope to pack a 9mm or better, one Vietnam reporter carried this deadly-looking Bolex 8mm camera gun that did nothing but shoot film.

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12 Examples of Vietnamese Street Cabling Disasters

3:30AM December 17, 2008 | Sean Fallon

When cabling is done right, it can be a work of art. However, in Vietnam things have gotten out of control—as OObject points out with their list of 12 above-ground cabling disasters. [OObject]

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