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Vietnam - Coalition calls on Vietnamese government to end persecution of activists
joined a coalition of organisations to pressure the Vietnamese government to end its persecution of the activists. The eight activists, along with six others, were charged under Article 79 of Vietnam's penal code for "carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people's ...
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Clumsy crane operator sends tree crashing cutting power to one-third of Vietnam
A clumsy crane operator triggered a 10-hour blackout across a third of Vietnam on Wednesday, exposing the fragility of the nation’s power grid. — JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty ...
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Vietnam activist sentences reduced
A Vietnamese court has reduced the prison sentences of four activists convicted in January of trying to overthrow the communist state. Eight out of 14 defendants convicted had appealed against their sentences, four of whom were successful on Thursday, their lawyer has said. Most of the jailed were Catholics, but they included bloggers and students. Scores of activists have been jailed since ...
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The best books on Vietnam start your reading here | Pushpinder Khaneka
Vietnam ) war by a North Vietnamese army veteran, although fiction, revealed truths to many people inside and outside Vietnam. The main protagonist, Kien - a thinly disguised portrait of the author - is a tortured soul whose sanity is threatened by his brutal experiences during the war.The story begins after the war, with Kien working in an army unit clearing battlefields of rotting corpses. The ...
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Research and Markets Vietnam Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020
"Vietnam Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Infrastructure, Supply- demand and competitive landscape" report to their offering. Vietnam oil and gas storage industry research work from OGAnalysis is a compulsory report for all analysts involved in the oil storage sector. It provides all the key trends and analyzes the drivers and restraints of ...
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Vietnamese woman Singaporean man jailed for sham marriage
A Vietnamese woman and a Singaporean man have become the first couple to be prosecuted under a new law aimed at deterring marriages of ...
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Video Watch Rare Vietnam War tapes unearthed
Military families of the past used to rely on film to keep in touch with loved ones on the front line. Jim Axelrod reports on a man who found some rare footage from the Vietnam War, and wants to return those memories to more than 200 ...
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Crane error blacks out one third of Vietnam
HANOI (AFP) - Over a third of Vietnam as well as the capital of neighbouring Cambodia suffered a blackout this week after a crane operator knocked a tree onto a key power line, electricity officials said Thursday.Twenty-two of Vietnam's southern provinces -- out of a nationwide total of 63 -- lost power for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon including the southern commercial centre of Ho ...
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Crane disrupts Vietnam energy supply
A mistake by a crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam and parts of neighbouring Cambodia, officials say. Vietnamese state electricity company EVN said in a statement that the blackout happened on Wednesday after the operator knocked a tree down. It fell onto the main north-south high voltage power transmission line. Electricity supplies in Ho Chi Minh City and ...
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Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs
In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ...
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Decades later Vietnam vets to get their welcome home
Allen County Councilman Kevin Howell announces plans to raise money for a Vietnam veterans parade. He is joined by, from left, Wayne Township Trustee Rick Stevenson and veterans Bennie Edwards and Jim ...
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Vietnam index falls on regional declines banks lead losses
HANOI, May 23 (Reuters) - Vietnam's benchmark stock index ended down 0.8 percent as foreign and domestic investors sold banking and property stocks after losses in overseas markers in Japan and China, traders said. Exchange-traded funds sold shares in the two sectors, including Hanoi-based Vietcombank, Vietnam's third-largest partly private bank, after Japan's market lost more than ...
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Device to stop taxi cheats
This is the latest attempt by the Government to tackle rampant taxi scams at airports. Dodgy taxi drivers are reported to be ripping off tourists with impunity as soon as they arrive in Viet Nam, doing serious damage to the nation's ...
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Vietnam-France relations edge closer
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday hailed Vietnam's valued relationship with France and declared that the two nations are making efforts to develop their ties to the strategic partnership level in 2013. The PM made the comments at a meeting with the former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who is on an official working visit to the country. Dung declared ...
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Quang Binh fishermen free trapped whale
Quang Binh fishermen free trapped whale QUANG BINH (VNS)-- Authorities and fishermen in central Quang Binh Province's Le Thuy District yesterday rescued a whale caught in a fishing net. The whale, which is 5m long and weighs one tonne, was discovered by two fishermen off the coast of Ngu Thuy Trung Commune. They brought it into the harbor and notified the local authorities later. The ...
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Fake concrete found in support pillars
Fake concrete found in support pillars HA NOI (VNS)-- Authorities in Ha Noi on Tuesday found a local company illegally producing fake additives to make concrete piles to support buildings. At Ha Noi Trade and Technology Application Limited Company, the city's market watch confiscated 15.3 tonnes of fake additives packed in 530 packages - plus details about the company's production ...
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Viet Nam wins medals at informatics event
Viet Nam wins medals at informatics event HA NOI (VNS)-- Viet Nam has won a gold, a silver and three bronze medals at the 2013 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiads, the Ministry of Education and Training has announced. Viet Nam sent five students to the competition in Singapore, contesting against 500 other rivals from 21 countries and territories in the region. Viet Nam ranked fourth among ...
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WHO warns that world not ready for flu outbreak
WHO warns that world not ready for flu outbreak GENEVA (VNS)-- The world is unprepared for a massive virus outbreak, the deputy chief of the World Health Organisation has warned, amid fears that H7N9 bird flu striking China could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people. Keiji Fukuda told delegates at a WHO meeting that despite efforts since an outbreak of another form of avian ...
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Spread of hand-foot-mouth disease concerns hospitals
A doctor examines a child infected with Hand-Foot-Mouth disease in Paediatrics Hospital 2 in HCM City. HFMD is now at its peak, having infected a total of 796 children in HCM City in April, an increase of 127 per cent against the same period last year. -- VNA/VNS Photo Phuong ...
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Japan fund grants $2.5m to help poor vendors
Japan fund grants $2.5m to help poor vendors HA NOI (VNS)-- About 600 poor street vendors in Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia are set to benefit from financial loans from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, announced the Asian Development Bank yesterday. The total funds for the micro-finance loans offered to household businesses by 2017 amount to US$2.5 million, and beneficiaries will also ...
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Crane accident leads to major power cut
Crane accident leads to major power cut HCM CITY (VNS)-- A two-hour power failure caused by an incident on the 500kV north-south transmission line hindered road traffic in many southern provinces and HCM City yesterday afternoon. Power supply failed when an operating crane hit the Di Linh-Tan Dinh transmission line at 2.20pm in the new urban area in southern Binh Duong Province, the ...
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MARD allocates funds to shore up crumbling dykes
MARD allocates funds to shore up crumbling dykes HA NOI (VNS)-- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved a plan to reinforce the inter-provincial dyke system at a cost of VND420 billion (US$20 million) to prepare for floods. Tran Thi Lan Phuong, an expert at the ministry's Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control, said the dykes include the Duong River dyke ...
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City plans five waste treatment plants
City plans five waste treatment plants HCM CITY (VNS)-- The HCM City People's Committee is now preparing for the implementation of five waste treatment projects. Of these, two plants each with a daily capacity to process 2,000-2,500cu.m of mud will be located in the Da Phuoc Waste Treatment Complex in Binh Chanh District. They will cover 40ha in total. Another project, which will be ...
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Rail project held up by land clearance
Rail project held up by land clearance HA NOI (VNS)-- Construction of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated urban railway project is behind schedule due to land clearance difficulties, said a project official. The project is scheduled for completion late next year and open for trains in 2015. However, director of the project management board Tran Van Luc said at a press briefing on Tuesday that the ...
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German Red Cross to help VN
German Red Cross to help VN HA NOI (VNS)-- Red Cross societies of Viet Nam and Germany will co-operate on humanitarian work in the areas of safe water and environmental sanitation, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. As part of a co-operation programme for the 2013-15 period, an agreement was signed yesterday between Viet Nam Red Cross Deputy Chairman and General Secretary ...
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