November 26, 2011
A woman pulls shopping carts through the aisle of a Target store on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling [...]
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September 10, 2011
A file photo taken just downstream of the proposed site for the Xayaburi dam. Thailand doesn’t actually need the power the massive hydroelectric dam will create, experts have said. Laos plans to start construction this year on the $3.8 billion Thai-financed Xayaburi hydropower plant on the Mekong River after changing the design to placate [...]
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September 9, 2011
Vietnam’s first alumina refinery would start producing in November, after several delays, and sell an expected 50,000 tons this year directly to clients without any tenders, the company operating the plant said on Friday. Alumina output at the $460 million Tan Rai plant would rise to 350,000 tons next year, around half its projected [...]
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August 5, 2011
I am a very lucky person. My mother breastfed me when I was baby – which was not very common in the 1950s in Sweden. I’ve breastfed both of my daughters – the youngest was reared on breast milk for 18 months. Now I have a 10-month old grandson, who was exclusively breastfed for [...]
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May 8, 2011
Vietnam’s top shipping firm Vinalines says it wants to expand a key international container port even though its construction has been indefinitely delayed since last year. Construction of the Van Phong Port in the central province of Khanh Hoa started in October 2009. According to the original plan, the US$3.6-billion port would have 42 [...]
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February 8, 2011
A two-week-old is held by his mother at The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado August 23, 2010 during a research study on obesity in infants. Babies raised on formula who start eating solid foods before they are 4 months old may be more likely to become obese than those who start later, suggests a new [...]
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January 22, 2010
Foreign investors are enthusiastic about implementing their projects in Vietnam as the economy begins to roll forward again. Nguyen Hoai Nam, general director of Berjaya Vietnam, said construction would start this quarter on its US$930-million Financial Center Project in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 10. Malaysiaâs Berjaya last November also received approval to develop a [...]
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December 28, 2009
Ho Chi Minh Cityâs education department has proposed changing class hours at local schools in an effort to deal with traffic jams during rush hour. Under the proposal, students at elementary, secondary and high schools will start and end their classes 15 minutes later than current schedules.At the moment, morning classes in the southern city [...]
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October 2, 2009
European Union (EU) finance ministers on Thursday agreed on some principles of an exit strategy to phase out their economic stimulus, but left a question mark on when to put it into practice. Sweden’s Finance Minister Anders Borg arrives for the dinner of the G20 Finance Ministers’ meeting at the Guildhall in the City of [...]
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September 13, 2009
HCMC students’ short films selected for national competition; UN agency to help Vietnam build green industry; PM approves British University Vietnam establishment; Waste water treatment plant inaugurated The winners of HCM City’s short-film contest for students.HCM City students’ short films selected for national competition A list of short films produced by students from HCM city [...]
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