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MSDF ship, freighter clip sterns in Vietnam port

A Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer collided with a Cambodian cargo ship in the port of Ho Chi Minh City around 12:20 p.m. Monday Japan time, less than two weeks after another MSDF warship collided with and sank a small trawler off Chiba Prefecture,... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Mon, Mar 03 2008

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