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World champions contest Vietnam's first vertical run 

October 30, 2011
World champions contest Vietnam's first vertical run 

  Reigning male and female vertical running world champions Thomas Dold (R) of Germany and Melissa Moon of New Zealand will come to Vietnam for the first time for the 2011 Vertical World Circuit. The first vertical run in Vietnam will be held at Ho Chi Minh City’s tallest building on Sunday, with world champions [...]

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Ex-flight attendant sentenced for running over cops 

September 3, 2011
Ex-flight attendant sentenced for running over cops 

Nguyen Huy Tung, a former Vietnam Airlines flight attendant, stands trial in Hanoi for running over two officers A former flight attendant received four years in jail Monday for running over and killing two police officers in March, VnExpress reported. According to the indictment, Nguyen Huy Tung, 27, drove a Toyota Yaris through the capital [...]

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Azerbaijan in first-ever Eurovision triumph 

May 15, 2011
Azerbaijan in first-ever Eurovision triumph 

Last year’s winner Lena (L) of Germany hands the trophy to Eldar Kasimov and Nigyar Djamal of Ell/Nikki from Azerbaijan, the winners of the Grand Final of the 56th Eurovision Song Contest in the Fortuna Arena in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on May 14. Azerbaijan scored a spectacular first-ever win in the 56th Eurovision Song Contest, [...]

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Time running out on US MIAs in Vietnam 

March 26, 2011
Time running out on US MIAs in Vietnam 

A US soldier carries a wooden box containing what is believed to be remains of US soldier killed during the Vietnam War during a MIA repatriation ceremony held at Da Nang International Airport in Da Nang City in June, 2009 With increasingly few of their families left alive and acidic soil eating into their buried [...]

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HP to pit ‘TouchPad’ against Apple’s iPad, Google 

February 10, 2011
HP to pit ‘TouchPad’ against Apple’s iPad, Google 

An employee walks past a Hewlett-Packard logo during the second day of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong December 5, 2006. Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled its entrant in the tablet race, betting its “TouchPad” summer release will keep it in the running in a booming market dominated by Apple Inc’s iPad [...]

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Seafood shortages hurt factories, workers, farmers

November 9, 2009
Seafood shortages hurt factories, workers, farmers

LookAtVietnam – Many seafood processing factories have reportedly been running at 50 percent capacity, which means dire problems for factories, no jobs for workers. Material shortages have existed for the last several years, but they have never before been so serious. Nguyen Thong Nhan, Deputy Director of the Ca Mau Department for Agriculture and Rural Development, [...]

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Northern regions face blackouts next year

September 13, 2009
Northern regions face blackouts next year

LookAtVietnam – The northern region will continue to face power shortages during the next dry season, as some major power developments have fallen behind schedule. LookAtVietnam – The northern region will continue to face power shortages during the next dry season, as some major power developments have fallen behind schedule. “The dry season shortage [from [...]

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IAAF launch investigation into South African champion’s gender

August 21, 2009
IAAF launch investigation into South African champion’s gender

South Africa’s Caster Semenya celebrates winning the women’s 800m final race of the 2009 IAAF Athletics World Championships on August 19 in Berlin South Africa’s newly-crowned women’s 800 meters world champion Caster Semenya must undergo a gender test, the sport’s governing body the IAAF announced on Wednesday. The 18-year-old has been a revelation this year [...]

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HCMC wasting oceans of water while Hue goes thirsty

August 5, 2009
HCMC wasting oceans of water while Hue goes thirsty

A worker opens a fire hydrant in Ho Chi Minh City to release water sent through the system to clean pipes. Ho Chi Minh City is losing around half a million cubic meters of clean tap water per day to pipeline leaks while faucets in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue run at a trickle. [...]

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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...