November 14, 2011
A local worker prepares before moving the 1,500 ton Van Linh Pagoda on Cam Mountain in An Giang Province 20 meters backward and simultaneously turning it 90 degrees. They call him a genie, but Do Quoc Khanh waves it off, saying there is no magic to his work. “As soon as all the procedures [...]
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September 1, 2011
Vietnam releases more than 10,000 inmates for this year's National Day amnesty. President Truong Tan Sang has ordered the release of more than 10,000 inmates, including 11 foreigners, as part of the annual National Day amnesty, the President Office announced at a Monday press briefing. During this year’s National Day amnesty, on September 2, 10,244 prisoners [...]
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August 31, 2011
The American International Group (AIG) building is seen in New York's financial district March 16, 2009. Top Bank of America Corp lawyers knew as early as January that American International Group Inc was prepared to sue the bank for more than $10 billion, seven months before the lawsuit was filed, according to sources familiar with [...]
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March 14, 2011
An "SOS" signal is written on the sports field of a high school after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami struck the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011 A hydrogen explosion rocked the earthquake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan where authorities have been working desperately to avert a meltdown, compounding a [...]
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March 13, 2011
Official in protective gear scans for signs of radiation on a man who is from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama, March 13, 2011 Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that charged across [...]
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December 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Local banks have increased interest rates on dong deposits to attract funds following the central bank’s move to raise the base rate. Soon after the benchmark rate was raised from 7 to 8 percent effective this month, commercial banks lifted up their dong deposit rates by 0.7-1.3 percentage points to more than 10.5 percent [...]
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December 13, 2009
Liquidity in the foreign currency market has ‘improved noticeably,’ the central bank said Local banks have increased interest rates on dong deposits to attract funds following the central bankâs move to raise the base rate. Soon after the benchmark rate was raised from 7 to 8 percent effective this month, commercial banks lifted up their [...]
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December 8, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Economists believe that there will not be big changes in interest rate policy before the end of the first quarter of 2010. Short term deposits have high interest rates Thanh, a depositor in Go Vap District in HCM City, tried to find a bank which offered high interest rates at more than 10.5 percent [...]
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December 7, 2009
At least 20 people, including 16 police officers and 4 civilians, were injured during violent clashes between Greek police and masked youth in central Athens on Sunday. Demonstrators clash with riot police in central Athens, capital of Greece, Dec. 6, 2009. More than 10,000 policemen have deployed in Athens this weekend, as Greek authorities and [...]
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November 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – State owned commercial banks have come to an agreement that deposit interest rates will not be higher than 10.5 percent. Right after the State Bank of Vietnam raised the basic interest rate from seven to eight percent per annum, thus raising the ceiling interest rate to 12 percent from 10.5 percent, economists warned [...]
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