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By RFA Vietnamese2024.11.18 Read more on this topic in Vietnamese. Police in Vietnam have arrested eight people – including five members of the same family – after violent clashes during an attempt to build a road in An Giang province. The project requires the relocation of 641 households. Six of the families have refused to move. On Monday morning, according to the An Giang news site, police were called to help protect workers trying to upgrade the road to Kien Giang province. Eight people were accused of blocking the area with excavators and attacking police and soldiers with petrol bombs and other weapons. Five law enforcers were injured, according to the news report, although it did not show pictures of injuries or alleged damage to machinery at the construction site. The police ...

By RFA Burmese 2024.11.19 Myanmar military airstrikes in northern Shan state and Mandalay region have killed about 30 civilians over the past week, an insurgent spokeswoman and residents said, as the military intensifies its attacks in a bid to re-capture territory lost over the past year. Ethnic minority guerrilla groups and their pro-democracy allies went on the offensive this time last year, achieving unprecedented gains against the military junta that seized power in an early 2021 coup and raising questions about the long-term sustainability of military rule. But the military has said it is intent on recovering lost territory and anti-junta forces are expecting offensives as the army takes advantage of the dry season now beginning, when it can send its trucks along dried-out roads i...

By RFA Staff2024.11.19 A batch of five Beechcraft T-6C Texan II - the first military aircraft provided by the U.S. to Vietnam - has arrived in Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City, witnesses told Radio Free Asia. One witness, who didn’t want to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter, said he saw five training aircraft, all painted with Vietnamese air force markings, at the civilian airport in the southern hub but was told they’d be moved to a military airbase soon. The flight tracking website Flightradar24 said the first of them landed at around midday on Monday after a nearly two-hour flight from Don Mueang airport in Bangkok where it had made a transit. The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engine turboprop aircraft built by Textron Aviation used for pilot training, ...