May 16, 2011
Pakistani security officials gather outside the Saudi consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on May 11, 2011, following a grenade attack. A Saudi diplomat was killed in a drive-by shooting near the consulate in Karachi on Monday, the second attack on Saudi interests in Pakistan’s biggest city in less than a week, officials said. [...]
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February 23, 2011
Thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition demonstrate in Pearl Square in Manama calling for the government’s downfall. Tens of thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition poured into Manama’s Pearl Square calling for the government’s downfall in the largest rally in more than a week of protests. The capital’s streets were clogged as protesters [...]
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November 27, 2010
Nine Vietnamese-Cambodians among 351 dead as festival-goers panic Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen weeps for victims of the stampede which killed at least 351 people on the Diamond Bridge in Phnom Penh Grief ran deep as Cambodia, led by a visibly emotional Prime Minister Hun Sen, mourned the deaths of 351 people in a stampede [...]
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December 5, 2009
Remains of 33 fallen combatants found; Vietnam, Cambodia tighten anti-human trafficking ties; Solutions sought for sustainable craft village; Germany helps Vietnam reduce electric energy loss; PM orders general inspection of websites Remains of 33 fallen combatants found Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai have unearthed a mass grave, recovering the remains of 33 soldiers [...]
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November 2, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vitaliy Tsykunov of Kazakhstan tapped the Asian Indoor Games’s men’s high jump with a 2.22m attempt and won the first gold for his team on November 1. The jumper tied with Majed Aldin Gazal of Syria, who also cleared the 2.22m mark, but the 22-year-old Kazakh athlete eventually beat out his rival to take [...]
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September 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam is losing the Middle Eastern and North African markets due to a regional media campaign that condemns Vietnam’s “tra” fish as unsafe. The media in the Middle East and North Africa has posted articles providing unsubstantiated information about Vietnam’s tra fish (catfish) industry. The Middle East and North Africa have emerged as [...]
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July 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Business confidence in Viet Nam’s SME sector has climbed since the fourth quarter of 2008, a recent survey found. The survey, which included the Middle East and Latin America for the first time, found that as in Asia, the more domestic-oriented economies showed more optimism than those more dependent on exports.According to the [...]
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June 26, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that Vietnam will be the world’s fastest-growing entertainment and media market from 2009 to 2013. VNPT is leading the charge to develop the local E&M sector.Over the next five years, digital technologies will become increasingly widespread across all segments of entertainment and media (E&M) as digital migration continues to expand, [...]
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June 26, 2009
Vietnam is the world’s fastest-growing entertainment and media market from 2009 to 2013, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2009-2013. Ian Lydall, general director, PricewaterhouseCoopers Vietnam looks into the trend. VNPT is leading the charge to develop the local E&M sector. Over the next five years, digital technologies will become increasingly widespread across [...]
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June 11, 2009
Vietnam hopes to cooperate with Saudi Arabia on the basis of equality and mutual interest, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told visiting Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Abrahim Al-Naimi Wednesday. Dung spoke highly of the results of the ministersâ working sessions in Hanoi with leaders of the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and [...]
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