January 15, 2012
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with journalists at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after his visit to Latin American countries January 14, 2012. Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the latest killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country’s nuclear program have escalated [...]
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December 22, 2011
A young girl in northern Vietnam. Ethnic minorities account for 13 percent of Vietnam's population, but 44.4 percent of the country's poor. © Alisa Tang/IRIN. For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen’s ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her questions. As the [...]
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November 26, 2011
A worker assembles a new Piaggio at a factory inside the Binh Xuyen Industrial Park in Vinh Phuc Province. Italian group Piaggio inaugurated the vespa factory in 2009. Italy, besides improving cultural cooperation with Vietnam, is seeking ways to boost economic ties with the country. Italian companies are interested in sectors like leather, footwear, [...]
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November 13, 2011
Patrick Desir of Poussieres de Vie with Ba Na friends at a festival in Kon Tum The Ba Na people toiled all day in the fields yet had little to show for their efforts and often went hungry. The situation troubled and intrigued Patrick Desir, whose charity organization helps six orphanages in Gia Lai [...]
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September 9, 2011
US President Barack Obama Thursday challenged Republicans to halt a "political circus" and immediately pass a bigger than expected $447 billion jobs plan he said would jolt the "stalled" economy. Calling for unity and an end to a "political circus" US President Barack Obama told Republicans to immediately pass a $447 billion jobs plan to [...]
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July 30, 2011
Nguyen Cong Thanh, vice chairman of Techcombank, grants scholarships to students in Ho Chi Minh City under a program the bank initiated in cooperation with Thanh Nien Newspaper on Friday. Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint-stock Bank (Techcombank) and Thanh Nien newspaper granted scholarships to over 100 poor students with good grades in Ho Chi Minh City [...]
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July 30, 2011
NGOs can provide information if authorities are brave and willing to take action against well-known criminals An Indochinese tiger, Mi, carries a cub at the Hanoi Zoo. Experts say Vietnam continues to be a regional hub for illegal trade in tiger parts, pushing the creature close to extinction. Ten days before the world observes [...]
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July 26, 2011
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos (pictured) has said that US support is vital for Greece, after a day of Washington meetings as Athens pushed to finalize its second massive international bailout. Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos has said that US support is vital for Greece, after a day of Washington meetings as Athens pushed to [...]
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July 15, 2011
Viet kieu from France presents Vietnamese music with a jazzy twist Nguyen Le performs in the Que nha program in Hanoi this week French jazz guitarist Nguyen Le does not speak any Vietnamese, but Vietnam haunts him almost all the time. He remembers that during the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) in 1994, he [...]
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July 12, 2011
Trish Franklin, CEO for Loreto Vietnam Australia Program, a charity in Ho Chi Minh City, visits children who benefit from the program Trish Franklin came from Melbourne, Australia to Ho Chi Minh City in 1995 and, like many expatriates, she never left. “I couldn’t stay if I weren’t happy,” she said, during an interview [...]
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