December 23, 2011
Alexandra Blachere, who heads an association of women with faulty breast implants, displays silicone gel breast implants during an interview in Paris December 20, 2011. Fears over the safety of silicone breast implants made by a now defunct French firm spread to Australia, South America and across Europe on Thursday as French officials prepared to [...]
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December 21, 2011
Textbooks and TV commercials in Vietnam reinforce gender stereotypes An image from an advertisement clip for a seasoning powder featuring a woman giving tips to another on cooking. Experts say TV commercials and textbooks are hindrances to achieving gender equality in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government has explicitly stated its intention to reduce gender disparity, [...]
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December 5, 2011
 Mai Phung Luu, a fisherman in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai who said he has been to every nook and cranny of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago, asserts that he will continue heading to the Hoang Sa seas without fearing anything. International experts have encouraged Vietnam to take further actions to reaffirm [...]
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November 8, 2011
  Supporters of Michael Jackson hold placards outside the courthouse where Conrad Murray’s trial was being held in Los Angeles on November 7, 2011. Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray was found guilty over the King of Pop’s 2009 death, triggering an explosion of joy from his family and fans. Crowds of supporters outside erupted as [...]
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October 29, 2011
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung wants to monitor case progress in Australia Bundles of polymer dong banknotes in Hanoi. The central government has reported to lawmakers that police have found no evidence of bribery in a high-profile international currency-printing scandal. The Ministry of Public Security has yet to find evidence that an Australian currency-printing [...]
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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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May 31, 2011
This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan [...]
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March 12, 2011
A Sri Lankan nurse injects a vaccine against the H1N1 or swine flu influenza. Independent experts who examined the World Health Organisation’s handling of the H1N1 pandemic said on Thursday they had found no evidence of drug industry influence on the UN agency’s decision-making in the crisis. But in a draft report made public, the [...]
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January 8, 2010
A review of Japanese documents has revealed âclearâ evidence that the former head of a major infrastructure project in Ho Chi Minh City received bribes from a Japanese company, a senior police officer said Wednesday. âThere is evidence to press charges [against Huynh Ngoc Si],â Minister of Public Security Le Hong Anh told Tuoi Tre [...]
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November 21, 2009
Vietnam needs to verify the legality of documents submitted as evidence in an international corruption case before investigations continue, said Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong. LookAtVietnam – Vietnam needs to verify the legality of documents submitted as evidence in an international corruption case before investigations continue, said Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong. The documents [...]
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