January 3, 2012
France’s health ministry has said there is no cancer risk from breast implants made by local firm PIP but recommended to the 30,000 women with implants to have them removed after eight cases of cancer. France vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a [...]
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December 25, 2011
France’s health ministry has said there is no cancer risk from breast implants made by local firm PIP but recommended to the 30,000 women with implants to have them removed after eight cases of cancer. France’s health ministry on Friday advised 30,000 women with breast implants made by French firm PIP to have them removed [...]
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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 20, 2011
An 82-year-old woman in HCMC promotes artists, advises young documentary filmmakers, and opens foreigners’ eyes to Vietnam ’s millennia-old history and culture Nguyen Thi Xuan Phuong, 82, spends her whole life in introducing Vietnamese heroic history and stunning art Lotus Gallery, located in a modest part of downtown Ho Chi Minh City, has been [...]
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December 18, 2011
A Salvation Army band performs for shoppers in London on the final Saturday before Christmas on what is traditionally one of the busiest retail days. Europeans are tightening their belts and spending less on Christmas gifts this year as they struggle with incomes hit by austerity measures or fear the economy could worsen in [...]
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December 12, 2011
A man having a compass tattoo on Bui Vien Street. Ho Chi Minh City with the believing it could guide him and stop him from getting lost Not too long ago, they were more than a rarity, they were simply not there. Today, nearly 20 tattoo shops have registered in Ho Chi Minh City’s backpacker [...]
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November 24, 2011
 File picture shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy prior to a joint press conference on the eve of the G20 Summit November 2. The leaders of France, Germany and Italy were to hold emergency talks on Thursday in the shadow of a failed German bond auction which took [...]
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October 31, 2011
International contest slips down a sleazy slope with accusations of sexual harassment, bribery and other capers   Miss Guyana and Miss Wales (second and third from the left), together with Miss Costa Rica, were parts of the contest’s maelstrom when they posted a video complaining about the event on YouTube Vietnam’s Truong Tung Lan did [...]
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October 23, 2011
Andre Bamberski, father of Kalinka Bamberski, who died mysteriously in 1982, talks to journalists outside court in Paris. A French father won a 30-year quest for justice for his dead daughter after a German doctor he had kidnapped and delivered to the French courts to face charges was convicted of her killing. A Paris court [...]
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October 22, 2011
The French Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City will help organize the biggest French food event in the city next week. After the success last year with more than 1,600 visitors, the second edition of “Balade en France” (Jaunt in France) by Sopexa Company is expected to offer a culinary walk through seven French [...]
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