January 15, 2012
A handout from the Italian Guardia de Finanza shows the Costa Concordia, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio. Two South Korean honeymooners were rescued Sunday from a cruise ship that hit rocks and keeled over off the west coast of Italy, but three were confirmed dead [...]
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January 7, 2012
 Tran Tuy’s Khuc dong ca (a children’s song) (Under), which was eerily reminiscent of photographer Duy Anh’s Tiep buoc cha ong (Follow in the ancestor’s footsteps) (Above). Since the list of award-winning works were announced in June, a provincial literature and arts contest in central Vietnam has received several petitions of denouncement regarding a [...]
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December 21, 2011
A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington, December 15, 2011. Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Amazon hired an investment bank this summer to review [...]
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December 19, 2011
VPF chairman Vo Quoc Thang (L) talks to his deputy Nguyen Duc Kien at the first general meeting of the company in Hanoi on Wednesday. The first meeting of Vietnam Professional Football JS Company (VPF) was held in Hanoi on Wednesday to choose its managing staff. Vo Quoc Thang, owner of the top-tier club Dong [...]
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November 24, 2011
Former Olympus president Michael Woodford, who exposed the company’s loss coverup scandal, met with Japanese investigators on Thursday over a cover-up of the company’s massive investment losses dating back to the 1990s The ousted chief of scandal-hit Olympus, Michael Woodford, on Thursday began meeting Japanese investigators over a cover-up of huge investment losses dating back [...]
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November 12, 2011
 A man talks on the phone inside the office complex where MF Global Holdings Ltd have an office on 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan New York, October 31, 2011. Almost two weeks after the bankruptcy of commodities firm MF Global, customers at rival firms are all asking the same question: How safe is [...]
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October 21, 2011
Rupert Murdoch faces a firestorm Friday at his News Corporation’s annual shareholders’ meeting, amid calls for him and his sons to be ousted after the phone hacking scandal in Britain. But given that his family control about 40 percent of the shares, and that Murdoch-backing billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns an additional [...]
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August 19, 2011
UNESCO is looking for a logo to represent the My Son Champa ruins, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, via a design contest August 1 to October 10. The event, organized by the UNESCO Office in Hanoi and the Management Board of the My Son Relics Complex, is open to both local and foreign [...]
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July 16, 2011
Sacombank, Vietnam’s fifth largest partly private lender by assets, has rejected rampant rumors that the bank could be acquired by an investor. The rumors started circulating at the end of last month as more than 25 million STB shares changed hands on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange from June 29 to July 8. [...]
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June 19, 2011
Reckless driving and frequent tire blow outs have plagued Vietnam’s most advanced roadway The bus involved in the accident on June 13 that killed 8 people and injured 10 others on the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway Investigations into a recent highway accident, which killed eight and injured 10, has indicated that speeding [...]
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Amazon weighed buying RIM, interest cooled
A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington, December 15, 2011. Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Amazon hired an investment bank this summer to review [...]
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