November 11, 2011
 File of US Marine Corps General meeting with troops in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. Reports claim that the US will expand its permanent military presence in Australia. US President Barack Obama will use a visit to Australia next week to announce that America will begin stationing Marines at a base in Darwin, reports said [...]
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November 7, 2011
Professor Lyn Beazley Professor Lyn Beazley, a leading communicator from Australia, will speak with Vietnamese school and university scientists next week on an Australian research project concerning community issues in Vietnam. Â The illustrated talk will address aspiring scientists in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from November 8-10, outlining how world class research in [...]
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September 25, 2011
Vietnam ranks third on the list of top ten destinations for the increasing number of Australians travelling abroad following an increase in value of the Australian dollar against the local currency, The Daily Examiner has reported. The Australian daily newspaper last week quoted the list of top ten best-value destinations revealed by online travel company Expedia. [...]
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September 3, 2011
Vietnamese pianist Luu Hong Quang Vietnamese pianist Luu Hong Quang won the first prize at the 2011 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition held in Australia on August 14-28. In addition to the first prize worth US$20,000, Quang, 21, from Hanoi, also won the Best Recital prize in Round Two, Best Performance of a Classical Sonata, Best [...]
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July 16, 2011
Activists in the ongoing fight against Mekong dams worry that recent US opposition has come too little, too late. Cambodian fishermen cast their net into the Mekong River outside Phnom Penh in April. US senators have called for greater environmental safeguards for the Mekong River, but analysts remain doubtful that US influence is capable [...]
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June 13, 2011
Austrade Chief Economist Tim Harcourt (R) talks with Australian Consul General Graeme Swift during the launch of the Financial Services Benchmark Report in Ho Chi Minh City on June 10, 2011 The Australian economy in general and its financial services sector in particular have proved their resilience and strength, emerging virtually unscathed from the global [...]
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June 4, 2011
Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. The [...]
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June 4, 2011
International experts condemn China for disrupting Vietnam’s legal marine activities and urged the country to be better prepared for the next encounter Fishermen unloading tunas in the central province of Binh Thuan. On Sunday, Vietnam condemned China for increasing regional tensions and said it would do everything necessary to protect its territorial integrity after [...]
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May 14, 2011
The Australian government will provide AUD137.9 million (US$146 million) in official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, an increase of 8.2 percent from the previous year. Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Allaster Cox, told the media Wednesday that the increased funding reflected Australia’s long-term commitment to Vietnam’s poverty reduction and sustainable [...]
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March 12, 2011
A tsunami wave engulfs a residential area after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on March 11 Japan was struck by its strongest earthquake on record, an 8.9-magnitude temblor that shook buildings across Tokyo and unleashed a seven-meter-high tsunami that killed hundreds as it engulfed towns on the northern coast. As many as [...]
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