Brief News - September 14 -15, 2006

1. A man robbed then stole a taxi in Hanoi on Tuesday, on his way from My Dinh bus station to Noi Bai, before crashing and fleeing.

2. A house in HCMC's District 8 was burnt down on Tuesday following an electrical short circuit caused by the heavy rain. (Lao Dong)

3. Half a million liters of gasoline leaked out at Nha Be General Warehouse on Tuesday's night when the oil product was being pumped into the storehouse from a vessel named Petrolimex . The incident was only discovered yesterday morning. (TTXVN) 

4. Market monitors in Hanoi on Tuesday uncovered a railroad carriage at Giap Bat Station containing three tons of smuggled compact disks which were on the way to HCMC. 

5. An explosion of a pressurized cylinder on Tuesday at Dai Anh Sang Co.'s plastics workshop in Tan Tao Industrial Park in HCMC's Binh Tan District injured eight workers. (Tuoi Tre) 

6. The railway section in Phu Yen Province was jammed for eight hours on Monday after a truck fell off Ca mountain pass into the line. 

(Saigon Times Daily)