December 30, 2011
A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]
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December 25, 2011
A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]
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December 3, 2011
The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) announced Tuesday (November 29) that tests showed a carcinogen was not present in a popular Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo. Tests conducted by the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine Testing Institute did not find 1,4-Dioxane in Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, while a substance called quaternium-15, which releases formaldehyde, was [...]
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November 8, 2011
Vietnam authorities have ordered tests of Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo after a US coalition of environment and health groups warned that the company has not yet removed toxic chemicals from its products despite their demand in 2009. Nguyen Xuan Tien, deputy head of Cosmetics Department under the Drug Administration of Vietnam, told Thanh [...]
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October 27, 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), on Monday approved the policy platform of the new coalition government for the next four years. German Chancellor and head of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel delivers a speech as CDU members vote during the CDU party meeting in Berlin October 26, [...]
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September 28, 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her preferred partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), claimed victory in the general election here on Sunday ant the two parties will form a new coalition government. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), waves to supporters after first exit polls in the German general [...]
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August 24, 2009
Three of Google’s biggest online rivals have joined the fight against a court settlement that would give Google the rights to sell millions of books on the Internet, meida reports said Monday. Microsoft confirmed Friday that it had agreed to join a coalition opposing the Google deal. Amazon and Yahoo have also joined. The coalition, [...]
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August 1, 2009
Fish cages on the Tien River – a tributary of the Mekong River in Vietnamâs Tien Giang Province. A new study and cooperation project in the wake of 11 proposed hydropower schemes on the Mekong River has been launched amid concerns for the river and the 60 million people who live in the lower basin. [...]
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August 1, 2009
Fish cages on the Tien River – a tributary of the Mekong River in Vietnamâs Tien Giang Province. A new study and cooperation project in the wake of 11 proposed hydropower schemes on the Mekong River has been launched amid concerns for the river and the 60 million people who live in the lower basin. [...]
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June 22, 2009
A Laotian man collecting shells and stirring the sand in pools on the Mekong before the rainy season With all upstream countries â“ China, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia planning major dams on the Mekong River, Vietnam faces imminent threats to its ecology, food security and livelihoods of its people, an expert has warned. Just Laos, [...]
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