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Vietnam New Year shoppers defying central bank spurs inflation 

January 25, 2012
Vietnam New Year shoppers defying central bank spurs inflation 

  Consumer demand for holiday goods and transportation will grow 10 percent from last year, according to a government forecast that urged authorities to monitor and stabilize prices. Asia’s fastest inflation is the last thing on Tran Hang’s mind as she jostles fellow shoppers at a street stall in Hanoi’s Old Quarter to snap up [...]

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Somali pirates chop off arm of hijacked boat’s captain: Vietnamese sailor 

January 25, 2012
Somali pirates chop off arm of hijacked boat’s captain: Vietnamese sailor 

  Two Vietnamese sailors on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean two years ago have called home saying the pirates had chopped off an arm of the captain. The pirates are demanding a US$2.8-million ransom. On January 20, Tran Van Hung, one of the 26 crew members of the [...]

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Vietnamese water puppetry play debuts in Paris 

January 20, 2012
Vietnamese water puppetry play debuts in Paris 

  "Le Maitre des marionnettes" (The Master of water puppetry), a Vietnamese traditional water puppetry play, will debut at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris on February 10. This program is directed by Dominique Pitoiset, the director of Bordeaux National Theatre, in cooperation with the Vietnamese national water puppetry theatre. Water puppetry is a distinctive [...]

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Vietnamese shooter wins Olympic berth 

January 19, 2012
Vietnamese shooter wins Olympic berth 

  Hoang Xuan Vinh has become the first ever Vietnamese shooter to win an official Olympics berth. Vinh won 682.4 points in the men’s 10-meter air gun event on Monday at the January 11-22 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha, Qatar. Vinh finished fourth behind the gold medal winner from South Korea, Jin Jong Oh with [...]

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Vietnamese student’s iPhone app book published by US firm 

January 18, 2012
Vietnamese student’s iPhone app book published by US firm 

Vo Duy Khang (L) and his friends at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia A 22-year-old Vietnamese student has authored a book on how to build better iPhone applications published by a US-based publishing house. Last November, Vo Duy Khang made his debut as a writer with the book Pro iOS Apps Performance Optimization, published by Apress.  Written [...]

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Better late than never 

January 18, 2012
Better late than never 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2 will finally be released in Vietnam this February, six months after opening in theaters worldwide. A high school netizen who goes by Bella Binh says she shed tears in class last week upon hearing that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2 will finally be released [...]

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Vietnam’s dai gia on display 

January 18, 2012
Vietnam’s dai gia on display 

  An overview portray of 12 Vietnamese big chesses, to open on January 17 in Hanoi A special exhibition featuring paintings of dai gia, a Vietnamese term used to indicate a rich person or “big cheese,” will run from January 17 to February 4 in Hanoi, The Thao & Van Hoa newspaper reported. Titled Dai [...]

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US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

January 18, 2012
US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

  New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]

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US professor passes, ending years of dedication to Vietnam's healthcare 

January 17, 2012
US professor passes, ending years of dedication to Vietnam's healthcare 

  A US professor and an honored advocate for increased healthcare services for Vietnam’s rural communities died from a stroke Friday at 74. Before she died, Judith Ladinsky expressed her wish that her ashes be spread in Vietnam, the country she supported unceasingly since 1980. As a professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University [...]

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Vietnam to resume sending workers to Libya: report 

January 16, 2012
Vietnam to resume sending workers to Libya: report 

A file photo from VnExpress shows Vietnamese workers returning from Libya early last year Vietnamese workers will soon return to Libya, after a turmoil last year which prompted the Vietnamese government to bring more than 10,000 workers home. A number of Turkish contractors in Libya have pledged to re-recruit Vietnamese workers over the next six months, [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...