November 26, 2011
A woman pulls shopping carts through the aisle of a Target store on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling [...]
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November 25, 2011
A man loads a flat screen television into his car on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Bargain hunters flocked to stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals on big screen televisions, video games and toys while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being. Some stores, [...]
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November 21, 2011
Psychologists warn increasing violence among local youth indicates modern life in crisis An image extracted from online video footage depicting a schoolgirl in Hai Phong City brutally attacked by her schoolmates Nguyen Viet Cuong had no idea that yelling at one of his students would effectively sign his 8-year-old son’s death warrant. When he [...]
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October 29, 2011
A billboard put by hackers on diadiem.com saying that the website is for sale. Two of Vietnam’s most popular websites on destination directions and information technology have been hacked. Â Administrators of vozForums, a big local IT forum, have moved their operation from the international domain vozForums.com to the Vietnamese back-up domain http://forums.voz.vn, while the [...]
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September 3, 2011
Company sends goons to beat up protesters Nguyen Van Tuan was attacked by truck drivers on August 29 after he and others at Da Nang City’s Hoa Lien Commune blocked vehicles from entering a construction site. A survey by Nielsen found environmental concerns in Vietnam has shifted from climate change to environmental pollution. The [...]
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July 3, 2011
Vietnam should establish a network of people who have influence and are able to connect online communities to gather and guide voluntary youth groups, says Nguyen Quang Thong, vice chairman of the Vietnam Youth Federatio, said. Thong, also editor-in-chief of Thanh Nien newspaper, made the proposal at a meeting of the Central Committee of [...]
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June 10, 2011
Vietnam’s consumer confidence continued to fall, a survey found Vietnam’s online consumer confidence continued to fall in the first quarter due to concerns over the current state of the economy, according to a recent survey by Nielsen Vietnam. With its confidence index dipping five points to 98, below the Asia Pacific average of 106, the [...]
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May 14, 2011
The Vietnamese site of Hotels.com Online accommodation provider Hotels.com on Thursday announced the launch of new websites in Vietnam and Indonesia with localized content, allowing travelers to book over 135,000 hotels. “Indonesia and Vietnam are amongst the key growth areas for online travel and, with our unsurpassed hotel offering, we believe the new sites will [...]
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May 10, 2011
YouTube is beefing up its roster of movies for “rent” online in the United States to woo viewers away from television and take on booming Internet service Netflix. YouTube is beefing up its roster of movies for “rent” online in the United States to woo viewers away from television and take on booming Internet service [...]
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May 3, 2011
Customers enjoy a drink while others browse the Internet at an Internet café in Hanoi. Come nightfall, Do Tri Dung can be found playing online games at his home in Hanoi. “Sometimes it’s the only interesting entertainment after a day’s work,” said the 24-year-old, who has been playing online games for the past four years. [...]
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