Posts Tagged ‘ results ’

V-League representatives comfortable at AFC cup 

December 9, 2011
V-League representatives comfortable at AFC cup 

Vietnam's top-tier V-League champions Song Lam Nghe An. V-League clubs Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) and Navibank Saigon can breathe a sigh of relief now that the results of the draw of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup have been announced. The 32 clubs in the qualifying round of Asia’s second-tier AFC Cup on Tuesday [...]

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South Sudan votes 98.83 percent to secede 

February 8, 2011
South Sudan votes 98.83 percent to secede 

A Sudanese man shows the palms of his hands after he dipped them in the blood of a sacrificial cow as he and others celebrate the results of the January referendum on the secession of southern Sudan from the north in the capital Khartoum. Southern Sudan was well on track to become the world’s newest [...]

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Microsoft riled by charge Bing is a copy cat 

February 3, 2011
Microsoft riled by charge Bing is a copy cat 

A Microsoft’s staff member demonstrates maps using Bing at an exhibition in Las Vegas. A spat between Internet titans heated up with Microsoft angrily denying that Bing copies Google’s search results and the world’s top online search engine adamant it has proof. Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi went on the offensive in a blog [...]

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PM wants to see more results in corruption fight

January 15, 2010
PM wants to see more results in corruption fight

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said Vietnam’s war on corruption must begin yielding results, especially by curbing land and tax graft, which he said caused major losses to the state budget every year. “We’ve begun to contain corruption in terms of the misuse of public valuables,” Vu Tien Chien, office head of the Anti-corruption [...]

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POLITICS IN BRIEF 17/12

December 17, 2009
POLITICS IN BRIEF 17/12

PM Dung pushes for stronger ties with Australia, Israel; Vietnamese legislators visit Brazil; Party leader Manh begins visit to Cambodia; Vietnam applauds peace progress in Central African Republic PM Dung pushes for stronger ties with Australia, Israel Vietnam and Australia should formulate a programme of action to realise the joint statement on the comprehensive partnership [...]

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HIV prevention gel fails to reduce risk: scientists

December 16, 2009
HIV prevention gel fails to reduce risk: scientists

Scientists said they found no evidence that the vaginal microbicide PRO 2000 reduces the risk of HIV infection in women. Stephen Malinga, Uganda’s Health Minister while announcing the results of the four year trial that started in September 2005, said the results end scientific speculation about the importance of the gel. He told reporters that [...]

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Local travel firms look to recovery in 2010

December 12, 2009
Local travel firms look to recovery in 2010

Vietnam’s inbound tourism sector will likely recover next year with the number of international visitor arrivals equal to or slightly higher than the 2008 level . . . Despite a strong increase in the past two months, tour operators said the results were still lower than a year ago.Arrivals have bounced back in the past [...]

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U.S., DPRK agree on need to resume six-party talks: Bosworth

December 12, 2009
U.S., DPRK agree on need to resume six-party talks: Bosworth

Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said Thursday that the U.S. and the DPRK reached a common understanding on the need for resuming the six-party talks. Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), addresses a press conference in Seoul, capital of South [...]

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Council’s members doubt HCM City’s environment targets

December 11, 2009
Council’s members doubt HCM City’s environment targets

Many members of the HCMC People’s Council raised suspicion over targets to contain environment pollution as presented by the municipal government, . . . “The city government reported very round figures, but there remains a fact that over 30 rivers and canals around the city were heavily polluted”.The city in a report said it has [...]

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HCM City targets 8% annual growth

December 7, 2009
HCM City targets 8% annual growth

LookAtVietnam – HCM City was set to achieve a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of between 7.5 and 8 per cent by the end of the year. The HCM City-Trung Luong Highway project will open to traffic by the end of this year. The city expects to achieve 8 per cent growth by year’s [...]

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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...