January 21, 2012
The Asia Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed a US$24.8 million support agreement to foster Vietnam’s "inclusive growth" and thus aid further poverty reduction in the country, the bank said in a press release. Through the support agreement, ADB will provide parallel financing to the Poverty Reduction Support Credit framework supported by a number of development [...]
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January 16, 2012
Many overseas Vietnamese scientists have been returning to the country in recent years to work in education and research, and they are troubled by the indifference shown towards both pure science and their return. Educational institutions needed to be more enthusiastic about pure science or the country would suffer a severe brain drain that could last for a [...]
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January 16, 2012
The World Bank agreed Thursday to lend US$ 973.5 million to Vietnam for three poverty reduction and infrastructure projects. The projects are the $613.5-million Da Nang – Quang Ngai Expressway, $210-million Medium Cities Development project, and the $150-million 10th Poverty Reduction Support Credit. “It is the first time that the World Bank is financing an [...]
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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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January 9, 2012
Genocidal Khmer Rouge regime was backed by the US in ‘shameful foreign policy episode’ The skulls of Khmer Rouge victims are displayed in a memorial to the genocide at the Killing Fields Museum outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Vietnam had saved his country in the 1970s, not invaded [...]
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December 30, 2011
Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman says, after a mass protest challenged the premier's authority two months before he stands in presidential polls. Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman said on Sunday after a mass protest challenged the premier’s authority two [...]
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December 25, 2011
Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman says, after a mass protest challenged the premier's authority two months before he stands in presidential polls. Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman said on Sunday after a mass protest challenged the premier’s authority two [...]
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November 24, 2011
A protester chants during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York October 1, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement is fighting an almost unwinnable battle against the ghost of Steve Jobs. America’s love affair with entrepreneurship complicates any attempt to mount an effective European-style war of have-nots against haves. To be successful, the new [...]
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November 16, 2011
A 96-year-old man says he is close to ending a treasure hunt that has lasted well over 50 years Tran Van Tiep, 96, and his youngest son Tran Phuong Hong. Tiep has obtained permission from Binh Thuan Province authorities to search for the 4,000 tons of gold treasure he believed to be hidden in [...]
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November 12, 2011
Families in Ho Chi Minh City with children who have chronic kidney disease will meet to support each other for the first time next week, as a ‘Kidney Club’ is launched in the city’s two largest children hospitals.  The clubs will include approximately 300 families of children affected by Nephrotic Syndrome so that they can learn and support [...]
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