November 16, 2011
American student’s singing ambitions rekindled by the sound of Vietnamese Singing and teaching in Vietnam has not made Kyle Cochran (aka Kyo York) rich, but his life is better than ever. Photo courtesy of Kyo York When he first set foot in the Mekong Delta as a volunteer to teach English under a Princeton [...]
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November 8, 2011
 Sharon Bialek arrives for a news conference where she accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment on November 7, 2011 in New York City. Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, already hit with sexual harassment allegations by three unidentified women, was accused for the first time in public by a woman who said [...]
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October 29, 2011
The Vietnam Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) made a successful debut in the USA with well received performances in New York and Boston on October 23 and 24, Vietnam Plus reported. The two concerts, held at New York City’s Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall in Massachusetts, featured famous works by Samuel Barber, Antonin [...]
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October 16, 2011
An NYPD officer keeps watch on Occupy Wall Street protesters at Times Square in New York October 15, 2011. Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in New York’s Times Square on Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations in support of their month long campaign against corporate greed. Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street [...]
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October 14, 2011
A protester chants during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York October 1, 2011 Anti-Wall Street protesters vowed to keep up their fight on Sunday despite the arrests of more than 700 people the previous day for blocking traffic lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge in an unauthorized protest. Police issued more than 700 summonses [...]
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October 14, 2011
The Vietnam Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) under the baton of Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji will perform in the USA on Oct 23 and 24. The orchestra will perform famous works by S.Barber, A.Dvorak, as well as some Vietnamese compositions, including Adagio for String, Symphony No.8 G Major Op.88, and Trong Com (Vietnamese folk song, arranged for the [...]
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August 7, 2011
Leslie Wiener with disadvantaged and HIV positive children from Smile Group After three decades of working in film and television in two of the most exciting cities in the world, Leslie Wiener came to Vietnam and decided to stay. What made her change direction and decide to stay in Ho Chi Minh City, where [...]
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July 25, 2011
ABC's Robin Roberts talks to the alleged victim in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, Nafissatou Diallo in New York The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek’s website on Sunday that he appeared as a "crazy man" and attacked her [...]
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June 12, 2011
A GlaxoSmithKline Canada Inc. employee bottles Ziagen, an HIV oral liquid medication, on the packaging line at the company's Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Dec. 13, 2010. By Francoise Barré-Sinoussi (*) Thirty years ago, US scientists identified the first case of an immune system failure that we (Luc Montagnier, myself and colleagues) found [...]
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March 12, 2011
A tsunami wave engulfs a residential area after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on March 11 Japan was struck by its strongest earthquake on record, an 8.9-magnitude temblor that shook buildings across Tokyo and unleashed a seven-meter-high tsunami that killed hundreds as it engulfed towns on the northern coast. As many as [...]
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