Posts Tagged ‘ March ’

Anti-Wall Street protesters vow to keep up fight 

October 14, 2011
Anti-Wall Street protesters vow to keep up fight 

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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The more things change… 

September 10, 2011
The more things change… 

An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan is [...]

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Subversive priest resumes jail term in northern Vietnam 

July 28, 2011
Subversive priest resumes jail term in northern Vietnam 

Nguyen Van Ly (C) at a trial in March 2007. A Catholic priest was sent back to prison in the northern province of Ha Nam Monday to resume his eight-year jail term for agitating against the state,Vietnam News Agency reported.   According to the news source, Nguyen Van Ly, 65, was initially sentenced at a trial in March 2007. [...]

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Gasoline prices a one-way street for local consumers 

July 17, 2011
Gasoline prices a one-way street for local consumers 

  Expectations that lower global prices would benefit consumers have been belied A worker pumps petrol to a motorcycle at a gas station in Hanoi. Vietnam raised retail fuel prices in late March and has left them unchanged since. When the government decided in March that local petroleum prices will be adjusted in line with [...]

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East Sea issue in the spotlight 

May 31, 2011
East Sea issue in the spotlight 

This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan [...]

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S.Korea's smartphone love affair lures foreign suitors 

May 27, 2011
S.Korea's smartphone love affair lures foreign suitors 

Models pose with Samsung Electronics' new smartphone Galaxy S II at the company's headquarters in Seoul April 28, 2011. The proliferation of smartphones in South Korea is transforming this former "walled garden" ruled by local players into one of Asia’s most promising destinations for global Internet and social networking firms. A solid, wireless broadband infrastructure, [...]

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Vietnam to review power prices on June 1: deputy minister 

May 6, 2011
Vietnam to review power prices on June 1: deputy minister 

A representative from Electricity of Vietnam collects the monthly payment from a household in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnamese government will review electricity prices at the start of June and may make another adjustment following a double-digit increase in March, a senior official said on Tuesday. "The government will review power prices on June [...]

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More time needed to implement new power price policy: officials 

April 25, 2011
More time needed to implement new power price policy: officials 

Vietnam raised the average electricity price by more than 15 percent at the beginning of March Despite a new regulation allowing electricity prices to be changed based on market conditions in June, officials say more time is needed before they can put the rule into effect. The government has said power prices will be adjusted [...]

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Vietnam to raise minimum wage amid inflation concerns 

April 9, 2011
Vietnam to raise minimum wage amid inflation concerns 

A vendor carries pineapples on a bicycle in downtown Hanoi. Consumer prices rose 13.89 percent in March from a year earlier and are expected to continue increasing in the next few months. Vietnam will increase the minimum wage by 14 percent next month, raising concern that higher labor costs may fan inflation that is already [...]

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National Assembly flexes legislative muscles with bill rejections 

April 4, 2011
National Assembly flexes legislative muscles with bill rejections 

Lawmakers’ rejection of a bill that would give special rights and privileges to Hanoi in the final session of its 2007-2011 term was a rare move, demonstrating a more active role taken by the legislature, experts say. Lawmakers’ rejection of a bill that would give special rights and privileges to Hanoi in the final session [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...