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TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus 

January 14, 2012
TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus 

A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]

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Single-digit inflation target feasible, says ADB exec 

January 9, 2012
Single-digit inflation target feasible, says ADB exec 

    Street vendors ply their goods in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The Asian Development Bank has lowered Vietnam’s economic growth forecast in 2012 to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent forecast last September. With the world economy remaining mired in difficulty, the Asian Development Bank forecasts a difficult year ahead for Vietnam. However, it [...]

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Vietnamese poet believes in Russia reclaim of cultural uniqueness 

November 12, 2011
Vietnamese poet believes in Russia reclaim of cultural uniqueness 

  As Russia marked the 94th anniversary of the October Revolution (November 7), Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Writers’ Association Nguyen Quang Thieu says while the country seems confused by changes under westernization, but it will prove its once powerful culture in the future. For you, as a poet, what is the meaning of Russia? Landscapes and people, [...]

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Soldiers' remains found by mediums must be confirmed with DNA tests 

August 17, 2011
Soldiers' remains found by mediums must be confirmed with DNA tests 

People serach for the remains of a war martyr in Nghe An Province Authorities in the north-central province of Nghe An have decreed that all soldiers’ remains found by mediums must be confirmed by DNA tests in order to be made official.   Nghe An Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, provincial police and [...]

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Remains of Vietnamese soldiers unearthed in Ca Mau 

August 16, 2011

  A resident in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau has discovered the remains of five Vietnamese soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. Du Hong Phuc of U Minh District was building a shrimp pond in his garden when he inadvertently dug up the remains wrapped in pieces of parachute fabric on Monday. He also found [...]

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Canine avengers 

July 16, 2011
Canine avengers 

  Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]

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Pilot project employs psychics in searching for MIAs 

July 12, 2011
Pilot project employs psychics in searching for MIAs 

Soldiers from the Kon Tum Province Military Unit collect the remains of a Vietnamese war martyr found during construction of a house in the eponymous town. The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has said in a statement that it will put a growing number of psychic corpse finders to the test. The [...]

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Remains of 11 MIA soldiers found in central Vietnam 

June 26, 2011
Remains of 11 MIA soldiers found in central Vietnam 

Military officers arrange the remains of 11 soldiers found in Quang Tri Province. Military officers in the central province of Quang Tri on Thursday found a grave with the remains of 11 Vietnamese soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. Following tip-offs from local residents, the officers unearthed seven sets of remains in a rural village [...]

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Cambodia repatriates Vietnamese MIA remains 

June 23, 2011
Cambodia repatriates Vietnamese MIA remains 

A ceremony held in Kongpong Chnang Province, Cambodia, to repatriate the remains of Vietnamese soldiers missing in action during the war against the Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodia on Tuesday repatriated the remains of 11 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who died during the war against the Khmer Rouge regime.   It was the last repatriation under an agreement [...]

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Vietnam finds war-era mass grave of 17 soldiers 

May 28, 2011
Vietnam finds war-era mass grave of 17 soldiers 

The remains of 17 soldiers are found after construction workers cleared site for a rural road project in Thua Thien-Hue Province this week. Authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue said Thursday local construction workers, who were clearing site for a road project, found a mass grave of Vietnamese soldiers killed during the Vietnam War. The 17 [...]

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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...