Vietnam arrests another internet dissident in crackdown
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Vietnam's government has in recent months arrested at least nine members of the country's tiny pro-democracy movement, which had recently become more vocal ...
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Providential Holdings Assists Second Vietnam-Based Company with US ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
As part of its activities in Vietnam, Providential has been hosting seminars in conjunction with the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce ...
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Vietnam National U21 Football Champs set for July
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Thanh Nien-sponsored Vietnam National U21 Football Championship will kick off in July with 41 domestic teams, and the champion joining a competition with ...
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Gateway’s star in Vietnam
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
Strike star, Obinna Ajoku who had been declared missing since the start of the 2007 Globacom Premier League season is in Vietnam where he is going through a ...
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Vietnam needs reforms : Vu Khoan
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok,Thailand
In spite of its rapid economic growth,
Vietnam desperately needs administrative and educational reforms, an international conference has heard on Monday. ...
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Vietnam's banking industry risk assessment raised, says S&P
Forbes - NY,USA
The ratings agency raised
Vietnam's BICRA to Group 9 from Group 10, where it joins countries like Russia, Costa Rica and Guatemala. ...
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Vietnam Conference Mulls Ways To Make More People Fly
By Mike Weston(Mike Weston)
Nam’s no-frills carrier is one of Vietnam’s two carriers, the other being the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines. Vietnam Air Service Co. (VASCO), which flies on some domestic routes, is a Vietnam Airlines offshoot. ...
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) journal: My 22nd Birthday!
By Jo in Vietnam(RealTravel members)
a entry by Jo in
Vietnam from a trip to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. Hello All, how are you? Im doing great thanks! If you have sent me a card Im afaird

Spanish group to take 8-day tour of Vietnam
Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam
The Ho Chi Minh City-based travel company Saigon tourist is about to guide 65 Spanish holidaymakers on an eight-day Premium Travel tour across Vietnam ...
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Boom times, challenges ahead for Vietnam's economy: seminar
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok,Thailand
Addressing an international conference on regionalism and the modernisation of Vietnam, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung said foreign strategic ...
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UPDATE 2-Compal Q1 net profit up 18 pct, eyes Vietnam
Reuters - USA
Compal Electronics also said it was evaluating possible expansion into
Vietnam in 2008 and 2009, to increase capacity outside of its current main ...
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Vietnam needs to have specific airports for low cost air carriers
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
Making investment in airport infrastructure items is now considered the key factor in the development of Vietnam’s air transport sector, a step toward ...
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Vietnam Raises Limit
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam plans to allow strategic investors to own stakes of 15% or more in domestic banks, up from 10% currently, in an effort to boost ...

Vietnam arrests dissident writer, schedules trial for two others
International Herald Tribune - France
HANOI, Vietnam: Vietnamese authorities have arrested a dissident writer and scheduled a trial for two other dissidents accused of spreading anti-government ...
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Deadlock over Vietnam hospital privatization plan
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam is privatizing businesses ranging from banks to energy and telecoms firms into a booming stock market, but a plan for the first ...
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Thai Royal owned SCG to invest in kraft paper plant in Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
Currently, it is running five projects in
Vietnam, including 1. VietnamThailand Plastchem, which has the legal capital of $3.5mil, producing PVC compound ...
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Vietnam veterans remembered
The Morning Journal - Lorain,OH,USA
To keep their names from fading from memory, they are being inscribed on paving bricks at the Lorain County Vietnam Veterans Memorial
. ...
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Off-duty soldier shoots two people to death in Vietnam
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya,Malaysia
HANOI (AP) - An off-duty soldier shot and killed a woman and her son in southern
Vietnam, apparently angered by a dispute over money, police said Monday. ...
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Jellyfish catch a lucrative business in Vietnam
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Fishing for jellyfish has proven lucrative in northern
Vietnam’s coastal Quang Ninh province, as a 5-ton boat can earn VND6 million (US$375) a day, ...
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Richard Nixon's "lessons of Vietnam"
By Bruce Miller(The TBV Crew)
I was intrigued recently to read an essay by Mortin Halperin, "The Lessons Nixon Learned", which appeared in The Legacy of
Vietnam: The War, American Society and the Future of American Foreign Policy (1976), Anthony Lake, ed. ...
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Dong Derivatives May Double as Investors Enter Vietnam Economy
Bloomberg - USA
April 23 (Bloomberg) --
Vietnam's currency is starting to capture the attention of derivatives traders as Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economy ...
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Diverse Anti-war Protests Largest in DC Since Vietnam
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... long hours riding overnight on buses and in caravans to take part in the largest anti-war event the nation’s capitol has seen since the Vietnam War
era. ...
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Monks protest over treatment of Vietnam's Cambodian minority
Radio Australia - Australia
At least three Buddhist monks have been injured

NC complex named for fallen Vietnam vet
In March 1968, Helen Merkel's oldest child, Michal, died in
South Vietnam. The Remington man was only 25.
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Target Stores vs. Vietnam Veterans - Netlore Archive
By urbanlegends.guide@about.com(urbanlegends.guide@about.com)
Is it true that Target Corp. insulted former military personnel by refusing to make a donation to the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall?
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American Amb. to Vietnam On Communist Vietnam 4/2007
By SHP1975(SHP1975)
This is an extraordinary time for
Vietnam. When

Vietnam oil spil mystery plot thickens
Antara - Antara,Indonesia
Hanoi (ANTARA News) - For three months crude oil spills have sullied beaches, mangroves and aquaculture farms along Vietnam`s long coastline, ...
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Vietnam vet living on a raft in the Keys to raise money for troops ...
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
MARATHON -- A Vietnam War veteran has been living round-the-clock on a raft off the Florida Keys to raise funds for a program he hopes to create for other ...
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Vietnam oil spill mystery plot thickens
Financial Express.bd - Bangladesh
While soldiers and volunteers have scraped over 1600 tons of congealed oil and sand off
Vietnam's shores since late January, officials remain at a loss to ...
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Traveling Vietnam wall arrives in Brevard
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
MELBOURNE – The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall arrived in Wickham Park shortly before 11 am with about 1000 bikers in tow. The event drew thousands, ...
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Around Vietnam in 8 days
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
The eight-day journey will give the Spanish travellers a taste of Vietnam’s colourful history by making stops in the vastly contrasting
HCM City, Hoi An, ...
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Miss Vietnam Jewelry 2007 starts
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
Organized by the
Vietnam Gemstones, Jewelry and Art Craft Association, and the magazine Jewelry & Art Craft Fashion, the competition honors women who can ...
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Vet's challenge after Vietnam
Melbourne Herald Sun - Melbourne,Australia
SANDY MacGregor returned from the Vietnam war a decorated soldier but, after the murder of his three daughters, he faced an even bigger challenge. ...
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Vietnam, Cambodia join efforts to improve sports
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam and Cambodia will play on the same side in training sportspeople and hosting sports events, stated a Vietnamese sport senior ...