January 14, 2012
Pham Phuoc Hung has become the second Vietnamese gymnast to have qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Pham Phuoc Hung has qualified for this summer’s Olympics in London after earning a total of 83.532 points at the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Qualifying contest in London on Wednesday. Forty-nine gymnasts from around the world competed for [...]
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January 7, 2012
The premium buyers have to pay for coffee from Vietnam, the world’s second-largest producer, may not decline before the Tet festival, according to Volcafe, the coffee unit of commodities trader ED&F Man Holdings Ltd. Vietnamese beans for shipment in February and March were at a premium of $80 a metric ton above the price [...]
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January 3, 2012
A file photo of the Vinalines Queen Vietnamese search and rescue authorities said Saturday 13 foreign ships traveling in the vicinity of the Vinalines Queen freighter, which allegedly went missing off the Philippines on Dec. 25, have accepted a request to search for the ship. Nguyen Anh Vu, director of the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination [...]
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December 21, 2011
A woman reads the tabloid newspaper “The Mirror” in London. CNN chat show host Piers Morgan told the British press ethics inquiry that he had no reason to believe phone hacking went on at the Daily Mirror during his editorship. In a robust performance, Morgan refused to elaborate on the circumstances in which he heard [...]
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December 20, 2011
Vietnam Airlines said its new direct services linking Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City with London will take it one step closer to becoming a major regional carrier. “The launch of the direct flights will allow Vietnam Airlines to improve its services for Europe, meet the travel demand of passengers, and help boost investment, [...]
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December 4, 2011
Famous Vietnamese fashion designer Minh Hanh is set to wow London with her latest collection of 100 ao dai ( traditional Vietnamese dress) at a fashion show on December 9. The show will take place at the Gatwick Airport (the second largest airport of London and one of 10 major airports in the world) during the [...]
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November 12, 2011
A Dutch company has filed a lawsuit in a London court, against Vietnam state-owned shipping giant Vinashin, and 21 of its Vietnamese subsidiaries. According to a BBC report, the Commercial Court under the Court Queen’s Bench on November 1 received a lawsuit filed by Elliott VIN Netherlands BV, a source from the court confirmed [...]
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September 15, 2011
A UBS branch is pictured in central London, on September 15. Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday it had lost $2.0 billion (1.46 billion euros) through unauthorized trading, after London police arrested a man suspected of committing the massive fraud. The man, arrested before dawn in central London on “suspicion of fraud by abuse of [...]
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August 11, 2011
Police officers prepare to carry out a raid in Pimlico, London, August 11, 2011. Prime Minister David Cameron vowed Thursday to hunt down the street gangsters and opportunistic looters he blamed for Britain’s worst violence in decades, and acknowledged that police tactics had failed at the start of the rioting. "The fightback has well and [...]
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August 7, 2011
Firefights survey the burnt-out shell of a carpet showroom on High Road in Tottenham, north London on August 7. Emergency services worked to restore order to a London district Sunday after rioters torched vehicles and buildings and looted shops there in response to the fatal shooting of a local man by police. Eight injured police [...]
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