Posts Tagged ‘ store ’

Bribing the Kitchen Gods 

January 16, 2012
Bribing the Kitchen Gods 

  A local woman is offering food, carps and clothing for the Kitchen Gods On the 23rd of the last lunar month every year, the large kitchen in Ms Ly Thi Phuong’s house in Hanoi’s Gia Lam District becomes extremely busy. The 56-year-old prepares for something important for most Vietnamese – a gala farewell party [...]

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Metro Cash & Carry opens new Vietnam outlet 

December 19, 2011
Metro Cash & Carry opens new Vietnam outlet 

  Metro Cash & Carry, which operates self-service wholesale stores, opened a new outlet this week in central Vietnam . Metro Cash & Carry Nha Trang, which came into operation on Wednesday, is the third new store of the company in the country this year, expanding its sales network to 16 wholesale centers in 13 [...]

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Americans losing addiction to ‘CrackBerrys’ 

December 17, 2011
Americans losing addiction to ‘CrackBerrys’ 

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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Black Friday draws crowds, but spending in doubt 

November 26, 2011
Black Friday draws crowds, but spending in doubt 

  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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Crowds hit stores for ‘Black Friday’ deals 

November 25, 2011
Crowds hit stores for ‘Black Friday’ deals 

  A man loads a flat screen television into his car on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Bargain hunters flocked to stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals on big screen televisions, video games and toys while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being. Some stores, [...]

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He came, he saw, he was conquered 

November 16, 2011
He came, he saw, he was conquered 

  American student’s singing ambitions rekindled by the sound of Vietnamese Singing and teaching in Vietnam has not made Kyle Cochran (aka Kyo York) rich, but his life is better than ever. Photo courtesy of Kyo York When he first set foot in the Mekong Delta as a volunteer to teach English under a Princeton [...]

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Personal effects on sale in public interest 

April 29, 2011
Personal effects on sale in public interest 

  The shop displays a collection of art and accessories donated by singers and actors. The owners of the unique store, including Truc Linh (in black), donate all proceeds to charity. It is difficult to have multiple parties in a transaction and close it with a win-win situation for all four of them, but the [...]

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Apple to beat Google on cloud music: sources 

April 22, 2011
Apple to beat Google on cloud music: sources 

A man poses as he looks at music from the legendary band The Beatles on Apple's itunes music store website seen on an imac computer in New York, November 16, 2010. Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music [...]

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Google unwraps Chrome PCs too late for holidays 

December 8, 2010
Google unwraps Chrome PCs too late for holidays 

Brian Rakowski, director of product management for Google, speaks during the company’s Chrome event in San Francisco December 7, 2010. The first laptops powered by Google Inc’s Chrome operating system will reach store shelves months later than expected and miss the holiday shopping season as the Internet company fixes software issues. The Web-centric computers, intended [...]

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Beatles coming to Apple’s iTunes: source 

November 16, 2010
Beatles coming to Apple’s iTunes: source 

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs smiles at the end of the iPhone OS4 special event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California in this April 8, 2010 file photo. The Beatles on Apple’s iTunes? Let it be. The Fab Four’s music is expected, finally, to be available for sale at Apple Inc’s online music store, a [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...