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New lead in 1970s US skyjacking case 

August 2, 2011
New lead in 1970s US skyjacking case 

The US FBI is looking at a new lead in a 1970s robbery where a hijacker parachuted out of a plane at night with $200,000 in cash and was never seen again. The FBI is investigating a lead in an unsolved 1970s skyjacking where the hijacker escaped by parachuting out of a plane at night [...]

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Toyota Concert Tour 2011 to cover four Vietnam metros 

June 27, 2011
Toyota Concert Tour 2011 to cover four Vietnam metros 

  The annual Toyota Concert Tour 2011 will take place in Vietnam’s four big cities nex month (July 7-16).   Under the baton of Japanese conductor Honna Tesuji, the Vietnam National Sumphony Orchestra will perform famous music international compositions including Saint Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso op.28, Bizet Prelude from “Carmen” and J.Strauss II’s Tritch [...]

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Sold down the river 

May 3, 2011
Sold down the river 

  One of the Xayaburi Dam’s most vocal critics says Laos’s ‘green energy’ claim is spurious A boat moves along the Mekong River at the site of the proposed Xayaburi Dam in Laos. If built, the dam would resettle over 2,100 people and affect the livelihoods of more than 200,000 people, an expert says. The [...]

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Vietnam provides tax extensions to some SMEs 

April 2, 2011
Vietnam provides tax extensions to some SMEs 

Around 200,000 SMEs in Vietnam will be eligible for the tax payment extensions The Finance Ministry secured government approval to extend its deadline for corporate income tax payments to certain small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), VnExpress reported Thursday. According to the ministry, around 200,000 out of 360,000 SMEs in the country will be eligible for [...]

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Families earning more can become poorer

January 19, 2010
Families earning more can become poorer

Vietnamese people stuck in the poverty trap are asking to continue to be on the “poor list” rather than be reclassified and miss out on assistance. Most poor people are living in the rural and mountainous  Phu Yen province official, Vu Thanh Binh, deputy director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, [...]

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Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, tensions rise

January 17, 2010
Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, tensions rise

A resident carries Samael Jachond, who was rescued from the remains of his house, four days after the earthquake Tensions rose among desperate Haitians awaiting international aid and hunting for missing relatives on Saturday as aid began to trickle in four days after an earthquake that Haitian authorities say killed 200,000 people. Haiti’s shell-shocked government [...]

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Hanoi education department orders schools not to “Tet” superiors

January 13, 2010
Hanoi education department orders schools not to “Tet” superiors

The Hanoi education department has issued an order that schools must not use state money to give Tet gifts to higher authorities or superiors. Tet, which is originally a noun in Vietnamese that means the Lunar New Year, has also become a verb meaning to offer gifts or money to superiors at Tet or on [...]

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Dung Quat refinery shuts down again with technical problem

January 9, 2010
Dung Quat refinery shuts down again with technical problem

Building small refineries such as Dung Quat, which has a capacity of 6.5 million tons, is inefficient, according to PetroVietnam The Dung Quat oil refinery, the country’s first, has been shut down for a second time due to a broken valve, again delaying its formal handover to the state-owned Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam). [...]

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PetroVietnam sees 2010 crude price at average $65/bbl

January 8, 2010
PetroVietnam sees 2010 crude price at average $65/bbl

State oil and gas group PetroVietnam said expects crude oil export prices this year to edge up to an average US$65 per barrel from $64 last year. PetroVietnam expects its export revenues this year to be $7.04 billion versus $7.82 billion in 2009, the company said in report on its website (www.pvn.vn) on Wednesday.The report [...]

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MOET changes expected tuition levels

December 17, 2009
MOET changes expected tuition levels

LookAtVietnam – The Ministry of Education and Training has unexpectedly changed the tuition fees it set for state owned schools two weeks ago. The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) on December 16 revealed the second draft of a document on setting tuition fees for state schools. It will be applied to the school years [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...