January 3, 2012
An Iranian ground-to-sea missile is launched on the last day of navy war games near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 2. Iran’s military has warned one of the US navy’s biggest aircraft carriers to keep away from the Gulf, in an escalating showdown over Tehran’s nuclear drive. Iran’s military on [...]
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December 29, 2011
Vietnam’s transport minister has asked the Ministry of Public Security to adjust several by-law documents to force future car owners to prove they have a proper place to park. Minister Dinh La Thang said that one of the factors causing severe traffic congestion in large cities in Vietnam, typically Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh [...]
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December 17, 2011
The new BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone is seen after it was introduced at a news conference in New York August 3, 2010. To understand what ails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd in the U.S. market, just ask eBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe. The world’s biggest online auction site had about a hundred engineers [...]
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December 17, 2011
If you were asked to describe, in 10 words or less, the single issue driving the two major political parties in the US today, I imagine you’d say something like this: Republicans never met a tax cut they didn’t like; Democrats won’t touch entitlement programs, even to make them solvent. Consider, then, the counterintuitive [...]
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December 15, 2011
US military personnel in Baghdad lower the US Forces-Iraq colours before they are encased, during a flag-lowering ceremony marking the end of the US mission in Iraq on December 15 nearly nine years after the controversial invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. US forces formally marked the end of their mission in Iraq with a [...]
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December 5, 2011
Tran Hoang An, 18, pictured in the hospital on May 31, 2011. Ho Chi Minh City prosecutors Thursday filed charges against a supermarket security guard for beating up a high-school student seven months ago. Phan Ba Dung, 23, has been indicted for "intentionally causing bodily harm" to 18-year-old Tran Hoang An of Nam Ky Khoi [...]
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November 21, 2011
An Egyptian protester tries to put out a fire at Cairo’s Tahrir Square during clashes with security forces. At least 13 people were killed as security forces tried to clear protesters from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, casting a dark shadow over Egypt’s first elections since Hosni Mubarak’s downfall. Police and military forces used batons, tear gas [...]
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November 21, 2011
Emergency rooms in HCMC hospitals are witnessing a massive increase in the number of people wounded in intoxicated brawls Patients being treated at the emergency ward of Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors say there has been an alarming increase in cases of people wounded in fights being admitted to the hospitals. [...]
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November 16, 2011
Genetically-modified (GM) maize on trial cultivation at a farm in Vietnam. More and more experts are concerned about the harmful consequences of GM crops and Vietnam’s plans to cultivate them on a wide scale. Vietnamese experts are increasingly concerned about genetically-modified (GM) plants that have undergone trials and are about to be cultivated widely. [...]
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November 13, 2011
Residents flock to the Agribank transaction office in Hanoi's Thanh Oai District, where a security guard was killed on Friday, Nov 12. Thieves fatally stabbed a security guard to rob a transaction office of the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) in Hanoi early Saturday, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported. At around 5 a.m., [...]
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