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Quiet Iraq exit won’t have a replay in Afghanistan 

December 30, 2011
Quiet Iraq exit won’t have a replay in Afghanistan 

  Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]

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Quiet Iraq exit won’t have a replay in Afghanistan 

December 29, 2011
Quiet Iraq exit won’t have a replay in Afghanistan 

  Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]

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Analysis: Philippine graft fight carries risk as Arroyo case 

November 25, 2011
Analysis: Philippine graft fight carries risk as Arroyo case 

A protester holds an image of former president Gloria Arroyo during a protest in front of the Supreme Court in Manila on November 22, 2011. The arrest of former Philippine leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for vote rigging has put President Benigno Aquino’s campaign to tackle corruption where he wants it, in the headlines as he [...]

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Obama toughens tone with China as businesses vent 

November 14, 2011
Obama toughens tone with China as businesses vent 

President Barack Obama arrives during the first plenary meeting at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii November 13, 2011. The head of Boeing chose his words carefully as he explained to President Barack Obama the “dilemma” that Corporate America faces in trying to do business in China. “We see a world where our interests lay [...]

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Vietnam dengue fever toll rises to 46 

November 13, 2011
Vietnam dengue fever toll rises to 46 

  Dengue fever has so far this year claimed 46 lives among 49,011 Vietnamese people who have been infected, according to the Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine. Most of the dengue fever cases have been found in the central and southern regions, the administration said. It said the epidemic is under control because the number [...]

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Vietnam has enough space for private aircraft: official 

November 11, 2011
Vietnam has enough space for private aircraft: official 

An A600 Talon, the helicopter model recently imported into Vietnam Vietnam has enough airports to accommodate private aircraft, and the country will expand its major airports if necessary, a senior aviation official said. The growing number of aircraft flying to Vietnam is putting pressure on aviation infrastructure, especially on Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi [...]

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Speaking candidly, journalists are truly snakes 

November 11, 2011
Speaking candidly, journalists are truly snakes 

  In 1989, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published her famous essay, “The Journalist and the Murderer,” with its notoriously overheated opening sentence: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” This was back in the era [...]

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Vietnam finds banned anorexiant in Chinese weight loss supplement 

November 6, 2011
Vietnam finds banned anorexiant in Chinese weight loss supplement 

The Vietnam Food Administration has found sibutramine in a batch of Cishi Qingguo Capsule products imported from China. The Vietnam Food Administration announced on October 27 that it found sibutramine – an oral anorexiant banned by the Health Ministry – in a Chinese-made weight loss dietary supplement sold on the Vietnamese market. The administration has [...]

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Hanoi sets cap on apartment service fees 

October 10, 2011
Hanoi sets cap on apartment service fees 

Service fees at apartment buildings will start at VND2,400 per square meter Hanoi’s municipal administration has put a maximum ceiling price of VND4,000 per square meters on monthly service fees that apartment buildings can collect from residents. Service fees will start at VND2,400 per square meter and cover the maintenance of infrastructure, use of elevators [...]

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Vietnam deputy health minister denies power abuse accusations 

September 18, 2011
Vietnam deputy health minister denies power abuse accusations 

Deputy health minister Cao Minh Quang Vietnam’s deputy health minister Wednesday denied accusations that he abused power to force a pharmaceutical company to lend him VND1 billion (US$48,000). Cao Minh Quang, deputy minister of the Ministry of Health, made the denial in an interview with the Tuoi Tre newspaper after several news sources reported that [...]

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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...