January 11, 2012
Tiger bones seized from a Hanoi restaurant on Monday Police in Hanoi on Monday found a restaurant cooking tiger bone glue, which is considered a tonic by many people. A tiger skeleton weighing 150 kilograms was being cooked at Tay Bac Quan restaurant at Thanh Xuan District when the police arrived. The Vietnam Science and [...]
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January 11, 2012
Vietnam’s five-year bonds on Monday fell on speculation an increase in money-market rates prompted banks to sell the securities to raise cash. The dong was steady. Overnight interbank borrowing rates climbed to 12.25 percent Monday, the highest level since Dec. 16, from 11.95 percent on Jan. 6, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The money [...]
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November 23, 2011
A bar association in the central province of Khanh Hoa has asked local police to investigate accusations that a lawyer has accepted bribes to help a man escape a jail term for theft, a local judge said Monday. Nguyen Anh, judge of Nha Trang Town People’s Court, told the press that Khanh Hoa’s Bar [...]
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November 16, 2011
Vietnam set a schedule for data releases such as bad-debt ratios and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered the publication of a report on state-owned companies’ finances, following calls for more transparency. The State Bank of Vietnam will release banking industry data including the loan ratios and return on equity, as well as figures [...]
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October 25, 2011
The body of Libyan ex-leader Moamer Kadhafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The body of slain despot Moamer Kadhafi was buried overnight in a secret location after being displayed in public for days, marking an [...]
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October 25, 2011
Dr. Conrad Murray (C) sits with his attorneys J. Michael Flanagan (L) and Nareg Gourjian (R) during the cross examination of propofol expert Dr. Steven Shafer in Los Angeles Superior Court. Michael Jackson feared he would not be able to perform a series of comeback shows, and begged for something stronger than sleeping pills two [...]
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October 13, 2011
Vietnamese inflation may jump and the priority is to curb it, the Communist Party said as Asia’s fastest consumer-price growth adds pressure on the dong. Inflation is “at risk of surging,” Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said in the text of a speech posted on the government’s website Monday. Vietnam will prioritize [...]
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October 3, 2011
The DAX Index board is pictured at Frankfurt’s stock exchange August 5, 2011. Greece’s admission that it will miss its deficit targets this year and next despite harsh new austerity measures sent stock markets reeling on Monday and raised new doubts over a planned second international bailout. The gloomy news from Athens brought the specter [...]
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September 27, 2011
Tran Thu Ha’s three new albums and poetry collection traverse the personal and the political, revealing a dynamism rarely found in young artists Ha Tran posed with a fan and her first book of poetry Thap ky yeu at Phuong Nam Bookstore in Ho Chi Minh City For 34-year-old singer Tran Thu Ha, releasing [...]
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September 25, 2011
Vietnam Deputy Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh (R) and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Scher sign MOU on defense cooperation Monday in Washington D.C The defense ministries of Vietnam and the US have agreed to promote cooperation in five priority fields, including sea security, according to the Vietnam News Agency. They signed a [...]
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