January 14, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia. The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, suggested the movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made while Thatcher was alive. Her former [...]
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October 3, 2011
Anti-Gaddafi fighters flash the victory sign in the front line north of the besieged city of Bani Walid October 2, 2011. People wounded in fighting in Libya’s besieged city of Sirte are dying on the operating table because fuel for the hospital generator has run out, medical workers fleeing the city said Sunday. The birthplace [...]
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September 24, 2011
A recent diplomatic row with China highlights India’s moves to beef up its influence in the East Sea via more cooperation with Vietnam, observers say Indian Navy personnel march on Indian Independence Day at the Red Fort monument in New Delhi. India’s recent actions demonstrate that countries are looking for ways to balance the [...]
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August 17, 2011
Thierry Bernard-Gotteland at his exhibition at Quynh Gallery in Ho Chi Minh City in July A contorted leather bed dangled from the ceiling, and metal chains arranged in a pentagram were lit up by stage lights. This was heavy metal art and it rocked the art world in Ho Chi Minh City this July. [...]
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August 8, 2011
Living in the city – where there are fewer and fewer trees, gardens and birds – urbanites tend to lose touch with their physical senses. We miss the days of walking along the street and following the scent of a flower in season. These days, traffic jams and the din of motorbikes overwhelm everything. [...]
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August 2, 2011
A man prepares to deliver a generator to a customer in front of an electrical appliances shop in downtown Hanoi on Monday. In energy-hungry Vietnam’s big cities, businesses and families often use generators to deal with power shortages in the hot summer months. State utility Electricity of Vietnam will continue to control a majority [...]
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July 30, 2011
A pharmacy near the a cancer hospital in Hanoi with posters promoting cancer-curing food supplements made from lingzhi mushroom, noni and ginseng Hundreds of pharmacists, doctors and drug makers are pushing anti-cancer supplements on naïve cancer patients. Vietnamese consumers have been willing to pay for these expensive products in the hopes of curing their illnesses, [...]
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May 31, 2011
A perspective of the 1,200-MW Long Phu 1 Power. PetroVietnam has selected US-based Black & Veatch Corp. to provide project management and design services for a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. PetroVietnam Technical Services Corp. (PTSC), a subsidiary of PetroVietnam, is the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for the 1,200-MW Long Phu 1 [...]
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May 6, 2011
A representative from Electricity of Vietnam collects the monthly payment from a household in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnamese government will review electricity prices at the start of June and may make another adjustment following a double-digit increase in March, a senior official said on Tuesday. "The government will review power prices on June [...]
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April 1, 2011
Wind turbines in the south-central province of Binh Thuan Now is the right time for Vietnam to seriously think about changing the status of wind power from an alternative to a more mainstream source of energy, experts say. Authorities in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan last week approved the construction of a US$250 million [...]
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