January 11, 2012
Many rice farmers work under the mistaken impression that regular insecticide applications are necessary to attain high yields. However, decades of research by scientists around the world has shown that healthy and productive rice crops can be produced with little or no insecticide applications in most years. Nonetheless, farmers continue to apply dangerous chemicals [...]
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November 5, 2011
Five times since 2003 the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Citigroup Inc.’s main broker-dealer subsidiary of securities fraud. On each occasion the company’s SEC settlements have followed a familiar pattern. Citigroup neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s claims. And the company consented to the entry of either a court injunction or an SEC [...]
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July 15, 2009
LookAtVietnam – In an increasingly competitive pop music industry, many Vietnamese singers are contracting with composers to give them exclusive rights to new songs. Your song: Singer Lam Truong during a recent performance. In an increasingly competitive pop music industry, many Vietnamese singers are contracting with composers to give them exclusive rights to new songs.An [...]
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June 24, 2009
Charmed by the Vietnamese entrant in this year’s Miss Universe Vo Hoang Yen’s moves on the catwalk, pageant expert Nina Cleopatra affirmed on missosology.org that Hoang Yen will be the most brilliant Asian contestant. However, she said that Hoang Yen’s face is not “beautiful” or “stunning”. Nina Cleopatra made her review based on photos on [...]
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April 30, 2009
Bill Ehrhart presenting one of his poems to Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap in June 1990. Ehrhart, now 60 and a poet and teacher, says he keeps a copy of this photograph in his classroom so he can proudly tell his students he once met one of the gr American veterans revisit the crimes of [...]
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February 11, 2009
Children water plants during gardening time at Ly Thai To Kindergarten School in Hanoi. The education ministry has drawn flak for a new set of standards by which kindergartners will be evaluated before entering first grade. The education ministryâs proposed criteria for evaluating kindergartners comes under fire as both vague and implausible. A new list [...]
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