December 25, 2011
China’s Vice President Xi Jinping (L) is greeted by Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan (R) and Party’s Senior Politburo member Le Hong Anh (C) upon his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi December 21. Vietnam and China agreed to comprehensively boost strategic cooperation during Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Hanoi [...]
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November 21, 2011
Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) directs Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (C) and his wife Tran Thanh Kiem (L) to the opening ceremony of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, November 17. Just days before US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrive [...]
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November 13, 2011
President Truong Tan Sang (L) meets with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Hawaii on Nov. 10, 2011. Vietnam always attaches importance to relations with the United States as a leading strategic partner, President Truong Tan Sang said Thursday during his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Honolulu, Hawaii. Sang is in Honolulu [...]
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October 21, 2011
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. At some point this month, October 2011, a child will be born and the world’s population will have reached seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region; home to 61 percent of the world’s population. If the child is born in the [...]
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September 8, 2011
The Beelzebub’s tube-nosed bat (Photo: Gabor Csorba/ Hungarian Natural History Museum) Researchers from the Hungarian Natural History Museum and Fauna & Flora International have discovered a tiny bat species in Vietnam, the Mongabay.com website reported. The bat species, described as "diminutive but demonic-looking", is the Beelzebub tube-nosed bat, or Murina beelzebub. It was among three [...]
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August 6, 2011
A picture taken in 2010 shows a man walking near the spilled crude oil on the shores and in the waters of the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo, a village in the famous Nigerian oil-producing Ogoniland. Nigeria’s government and oil giant Shell Friday came under heavy pressure following the release of a landmark UN report [...]
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July 31, 2011
Vietnam's growth has moderated as monetary and fiscal policies were tightened, ADB said Vietnam’s growth is expected to slow to 6.1 percent this year as authorities tighten monetary policies and cut government expenditures to bring inflation under control, the Asian Development Bank said Thursday. The economy expanded 5.7 percent in the second quarter of 2011, [...]
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July 31, 2011
The fifth ASEAN Naval Chief's Meeting was held in Hanoi Wednesday Vietnam is not trying to pull more countries into the East Sea issue to internationalize it since the issue is international in essence, a senior Vietnam Navy official said at the fifth ASEAN Naval Chiefs’ Meeting Wednesday. Â Nguyen Van Hien, Deputy Commander in [...]
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July 30, 2011
Vietnam's Vice Minister of Defense and Navy Commander in Chief Vice Admiral Nguyen Van Hien (L) speaks with media along the sides of the 5th ASEAN Navy Chiefs meeting in Hanoi on July 27 Southeast Asian naval chiefs pledged closer cooperation on Wednesday as they held their first formal talks amid regional concern over China’s [...]
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July 19, 2011
The male gaur (Bos gaurus) grazes with a cow near a village of the Raglay ethnic people in Ninh Thuan Province’s Phuoc Binh National Park. A large gaur grazing near a residential area alongside domestic cows in Ninh Thuan Province offers a unique opportunity for extensive research and better conservation of the endangered species, [...]
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