May 31, 2011
Dried up corn is seen in a field in eastern China, where a record drought threatens to push global food prices up. Oxfam called on Tuesday for an overhaul of the world’s food system, warning that in a couple of decades, millions more people would be gripped by hunger due to population growth and climate-hit [...]
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December 7, 2010
Vietnam needs to figure out where it wants to go and how it’s going to get there before it loses its economic edge A worker at a textile factory in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam needs to move beyond the current economic growth model which is based on low labor cost, a Harvard guru [...]
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January 31, 2010
Job seekers attend an interview workshop in San Mateo, California The US$700-billion US government effort to rescue the financial system has failed to meet key goals such as sparking lending and curbing risky activities by banks, a special auditor said Sunday. The special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said in a report [...]
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November 27, 2009
Hatfield Consultants selects sampling locations around the Da Nang Airport. A new study of dioxin contamination at the Da Nang Airport has found alarming amounts of the toxin in people, fish and soil, with some areas tainted by over 360 times more dioxin than deemed safe by the WHO. The airport is widely recognized as [...]
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August 14, 2009
The National Assembly Standing Committee spent yesterday morning (August 13) discussing a report on the management of State economic groups In 2008, these economic entities made up nearly 40% of the country’s gross domestic product, generated 39.5% of the value of industrial products, over 50% of the export turnover and 28.8% of the gross national [...]
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August 9, 2009
Nguyen Ngoc Phuong, 28, a victim of the defoliant Agent Orange, walks inside a classroom at a social sponsorship center in Vietnam’s Da Nang City June 26, 2009 Scientists have always concurred that exposure to Agent Orange leads to serious health maladies â“ a conclusion those responsible for the poison conveniently ignore. The US government [...]
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July 17, 2009
People run following a blast at the Marriot Hotel in central Jakarta, July 17, 2009. Near-simultaneous bomb blasts ripped through the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta’s business district on Friday, killing nine people and wounding 42 others including foreign businessmen, police said. A car bomb had also exploded along a toll road [...]
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June 13, 2009
Disasters caused by climate change will inflict the highest losses in poor countries with weak governments that have dashed for growth and failed to shield populations which settle in exposed areas, a UN report said. “Disaster risk is not evenly distributed,” said the report, released Thursday on the sidelines of the world climate talks in [...]
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June 3, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam has worked hard to meet Millennium Development Goals before 2015, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Cao Viet Sinh said in Ha Noi yesterday, June 3. Students study computer at Yen Bai province’s Ethnic Boarding High School. The nation expects to achieve a goal of universal secondary education by next year.He [...]
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June 3, 2009
Ethnic minority residents in Kong Chro District, Gia Lai Province Vietnam has reduced its poverty rate remarkably, but much still needs to be done as many minority groups are still far poorer than the general population, according to an ethnic minority study by the World Bank. In 2006, 52 percent of ethnic minorities lived under [...]
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