October 16, 2011
Tobacco industry poised to deploy ‘dirty tricks’ to increase business in third-world nations despite evidence aplenty of the substance’s harmful effects Natalka Proszak uses a cigarette box to block the wind as she lights a cigarette in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now that smoking has declined in high-income nations, experts warn that the tobacco industry [...]
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September 3, 2011
Experts urge better detection and poultry production practices in response to a new mutant strain of H5N1 appearing in the northern and central parts of the country Cooked chicken are displayed for sale on a street in Hanoi. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned against a new strain of H5N1 virus in [...]
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August 27, 2011
Libyans stand next to a golden sofa with a statue of Aisha, the daughter of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi inside her house in Tripoli, August 26, 2011. Libyan rebels said they were closing in on fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi and would merge their disparate fighters in the capital under one command to streamline operations. There [...]
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August 7, 2011
Firefights survey the burnt-out shell of a carpet showroom on High Road in Tottenham, north London on August 7. Emergency services worked to restore order to a London district Sunday after rioters torched vehicles and buildings and looted shops there in response to the fatal shooting of a local man by police. Eight injured police [...]
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August 2, 2011
A man prepares to deliver a generator to a customer in front of an electrical appliances shop in downtown Hanoi on Monday. In energy-hungry Vietnam’s big cities, businesses and families often use generators to deal with power shortages in the hot summer months. State utility Electricity of Vietnam will continue to control a majority [...]
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July 27, 2011
File photo of an Afghan wheeling his bicycle across a street in Kandahar City. The mayor of Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan and the birthplace of the Taliban movement, was killed in a suicide attack on Wednesday, police said. The death comes two weeks after the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the so-called [...]
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July 12, 2011
Food prices rose over the past few days in some localities Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung Saturday ordered government agencies and enterprises to control prices amid signs that inflation is picking up. Food prices rose over the past few days in some localities, hurting consumers and making it difficult to achieve the revised inflation target [...]
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June 14, 2011
Viking II, a ship contracted by the state-owned Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group, was harassed by Chinese ships Thursday as it carried out seismic surveys in Vietnam's continental shelf. Le The Mau, former chief of the scientific information division under the Ministry of National Defense’s Institute of Military Strategies, says China is acting against [...]
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June 13, 2011
Libyan state television has shown footage of Moamer Kadhafi, seen here in April 2011, playing chess with the head of the World Chess Federation, as fighting between his forces and rebels raged on many fronts. Libyan state television showed footage of Moamer Kadhafi playing chess with the head of the World Chess Federation, as fighting [...]
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June 12, 2011
A woman with children shops at a supermarket in Hanoi. Experts have criticized a new draft law on prices, saying it does not mention anything about consumer rights. The proposed law on prices as currently written has raised concerns among business groups about more controls on pricing. In addition, experts complain that the new law [...]
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