December 19, 2011
Terrence Duffy, executive chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group. The drama over the meltdown of the brokerage firm MF Global pivots around a clash between two veteran traders who rose from relatively humble roots to the very top of the futures-trading business. One is Jon Corzine, the firm’s former CEO who just testified [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnamese fishermen on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean last December are still in stable condition after spending about one year in the hands of the pirates, online newspaper VnExpress reported. On Dec. 30, 2010, the FV Shiuh Fu No. 1 was last seen being pursued by a [...]
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November 21, 2011
Psychologists warn increasing violence among local youth indicates modern life in crisis An image extracted from online video footage depicting a schoolgirl in Hai Phong City brutally attacked by her schoolmates Nguyen Viet Cuong had no idea that yelling at one of his students would effectively sign his 8-year-old son’s death warrant. When he [...]
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October 28, 2011
Saif Al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himself up and warning him Friday he risks a mid-air interception if he tries to flee by plane to an African [...]
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October 23, 2011
Bui Xuan Thuan talks about the the beatings and torture given to him by his father A father in northern Vietnam has been whipping his son and threatening to make him eat feces once for failing to finish his homework, according to local police.  Bui Xuan Thuan, 11, has been severely beaten by his father at [...]
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October 15, 2011
William Colby (R) and President Gerald Ford and his Cabinet and Colby Family are pictured in the Oval Office at the White House as Colby receives the National Security Medal in this 1976 handout photograph. REUTERS. When the body of former CIA director William Colby was found underwater near his vacation home in Rockpoint, Maryland [...]
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September 1, 2011
Libyan rebels rest on the outskirts of the village of Umm Qandil east of Sirte. Russia on Thursday officially recognized Libya’s rebels as the governing authority in the country, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "The Russian Federation recognizes Libya’s National Transitional Council as the ruling authority and notes its reform program that includes [...]
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April 24, 2011
James G.Zumwalt (L) and his father, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, on the ship USS Manitowoc offshore Vietnam in 1971. American author James G. Zumwalt was in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday to promote a new Vietnamese translation of his latest book Bare feet, Iron will – Stories from the other side of Vietnam’s battlefields. The [...]
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April 20, 2011
Libyan rebels are pictured with the former flag of the north African nation alongside the French national flag close to the strategic rebel-held town of Ajdabiya. A rebel official in Libya’s besieged city of Misrata pleaded for Britain and France to send troops to help fight Moamer Kadhafi’s forces, while a son of the strongman [...]
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March 24, 2011
The 25-meter long, two-story vessel, made of coconut shell and other composite materials, is serving as a floating restaurant in the central coastal province of Phu Yen’s Da Rang River Pham Hong Binh may be the first man to float a restaurant on coconuts. But, then again, he wouldn’t have it any other way. In [...]
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CME’s Duffy vs MF Global’s Corzine: A question of trust
Terrence Duffy, executive chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group. The drama over the meltdown of the brokerage firm MF Global pivots around a clash between two veteran traders who rose from relatively humble roots to the very top of the futures-trading business. One is Jon Corzine, the firm’s former CEO who just testified [...]
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