January 9, 2012
Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has rejected claims that a woman was recently been sent to a compulsory education center because of her political view. “In Vietnam, no one is arrested because [he/she] expresses a political view,” Luong Thanh Nghi, the foreign ministry spokesman, said on January 6. “Hanoi authorities say Bui Thi Minh Hang had [...]
Tags: Education Center, Foreign ministry, No One, political, Political View, Thanh, Vietnam
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December 30, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 29, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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October 7, 2011
During a rare burning argument over recent fuel price adjustments at a conference on Tuesday, Finance Minister Vuong Dinh Hue asked local fuel companies to quit trading in fuel if they can’t survive with the current prices. “The Ministry of Finance doesn’t leave any business out. If our management causes damages to businesses, we [...]
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June 13, 2011
Libyan state television has shown footage of Moamer Kadhafi, seen here in April 2011, playing chess with the head of the World Chess Federation, as fighting between his forces and rebels raged on many fronts. Libyan state television showed footage of Moamer Kadhafi playing chess with the head of the World Chess Federation, as fighting [...]
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May 26, 2011
Tran Dinh Quang, 13, at his family's funeral Sunday in the central province of Ha Tinh. Nine of his loved ones died in a boat accident in the southern province of Binh Duong last Friday. Tears seem to be not enough to express the pain of a 70-year-old man and his family, as nine of [...]
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March 2, 2011
Scientists have made a surprising discovery: The more options you have for choosing a lover, the likelier you are to end up with no-one. British investigators, in a new study released on Wednesday, looked at the strange dynamics of choice in speed-dating, a fashionable way for singles to meet. Speed-daters race through a rota [...]
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February 25, 2011
A twelve-year-old Vietnamese-Canadian is taking the figure skating world by storm Champion of the 2011 Canadian Junior Men’s Championships, Nguyen Phuc Nam (C), aka Nam Nguyen, poses for a picture with the runner-up Shaquille Davis (L) and bronze medalist Peter O’Brien (R) Nguyen Phuc Nam’s goal is to be the first Vietnamese-Canadian to take [...]
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February 18, 2011
An impoverished graveyard community clings to its meager livelihood as city authorities plan redevelopment Huynh Van Hai, 67, at his house adjoining a cemetery in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Hung Hoa A Ward. His wife (L) washes and dries scavenged plastic bags on the graves that come up into their backyard. More than [...]
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January 23, 2011
Nguyen Van Het in his charity house built by local authorities in Ho Chi Minh City's District 11. The alleyway where Het used to live was quiet, during Wednesday’s muggy, pink sunset. The clicks of toy guns fill the lane as a group of neighborhood kids engaged in a mock shootout, pretending to die over [...]
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