January 9, 2012
Vietnam's No.1 chess player Le Quang Liem. Photo by worldchess.com. GM Le Quang Liem so far has been the only Vietnamese selected to carry the 2012 London Olympics torch in Manchester, England, in June. Last year was a successful year for Vietnam’s No.1 chess player. The 21-year-old Liem successfully defended his Aeroflot title in Russia, [...]
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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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January 3, 2012
An Iranian ground-to-sea missile is launched on the last day of navy war games near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 2. Iran’s military has warned one of the US navy’s biggest aircraft carriers to keep away from the Gulf, in an escalating showdown over Tehran’s nuclear drive. Iran’s military on [...]
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December 15, 2011
US military personnel in Baghdad lower the US Forces-Iraq colours before they are encased, during a flag-lowering ceremony marking the end of the US mission in Iraq on December 15 nearly nine years after the controversial invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. US forces formally marked the end of their mission in Iraq with a [...]
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December 12, 2011
A person thought to be Panama’s former dictator (1983-89) Manuel Noriega (C) is lifted onto a wheelchair upon arrival at Renacer prison, 25 km south east of Panama City. Former strongman Manuel Noriega returned home to face justice in Panama after serving more than 20 years in prisons in the United States and France for [...]
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December 5, 2011
The only nuclear reactor in Da Lat on Thursday was completely converted from highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium fuel as part of Vietnam’s commitment to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes, VnExpress reported. Vietnam and the United States reached an agreement to complete the full conversion of the Da Lat research reactor last December [...]
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November 21, 2011
A Cambodian looks at pictures of former Khmer Rouge leaders “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea (L), ex-head of state Khieu Samphan (2nd L), ex-deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs Ieng Sary (2nd R) and ex-social affairs minister Ieng Thirith (R) during their trial in Phnom Penh on November 21, 2011 Three top [...]
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November 21, 2011
Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) directs Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (C) and his wife Tran Thanh Kiem (L) to the opening ceremony of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, November 17. Just days before US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrive [...]
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November 14, 2011
Front row (L-R), Australian Prime Minister Julie Gillard, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda; second row from left Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, Republic of Korea President Lee Myung-bak, Mexican Trade Minister Bruno Ferrari and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on November 13, 2011 [...]
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November 14, 2011
President Barack Obama arrives during the first plenary meeting at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii November 13, 2011. The head of Boeing chose his words carefully as he explained to President Barack Obama the “dilemma” that Corporate America faces in trying to do business in China. “We see a world where our interests lay [...]
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