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Telstra Expands Asia/Pacific Network
Telstra International, a leading global provider of managed network solutions, today unveiled a series of initiatives to deepen its connectivity in key Asian growth markets in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Only 80 wild elephants left in Vietnam
Tajikistan News.Net Friday 27th November, 2009 There are only 80 elephants left in the wild in Vietnam and they are in danger due to illegal hunting and deforestation, state media reported Friday.
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Vietnamese food: not a spring roll in sight
Getting away from restaurants crowded with tourists can reveal intriguing options, including geese with shaved necks.
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VN approves first nuclear power plants
Vietnam's Communist-dominated parliament on Wednesday brushed aside criticism and approved building the country's first nuclear power stations, a project keenly watched by potential foreign partners.
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It sounds like the plot of a tear-jerking movie a ' a nurse travelled to Vietnam to help an orphaned boy with a horrific skin disorder.
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French supermajor Total announced a new discovery of light crude oil off the coast of Vung Tau in the south of Vietnam in the Mekong delta region.
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North Ala. man among vets honored for Vietnam heroism
SMITH LAKE -- Wayne Patton doesn't consider himself a hero, but in a dense jungle on March 26, 1970, he sure acted like one.
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PALME Team announces dates for PALME Vietnam
With Q4 2009 not even at its halfway point, the PALME team has already planned a host of activities for both exhibitors and visitors for next year's exhibition to capitalise on the present market opportunities in the Indochina.
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Vietnam needs 300 years to be free from unexploded bombs, mines
International and domestic delegates gathered on November 19 in central Quang Tri Province to find ways of minimising accidents caused by post-war bombs and landmines and boosting clearance activities in central provinces.
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Eight year sentence stays unchanged for labor hero
An appeals court on Thursday upheld the eight year jail sentence handed down last August on the former director of a collective farm who had been named a Labor Hero by the government.
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Conference on Vietnam-China economic corridor opens in Hanoi
The fifth conference on cooperation in the economic corridor between China's Yunnan province and four Vietnamese localities of Hanoi, Lao Cai, Hai Phong and Quang Ninh opened in Hanoi on Friday.
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U.S. Navy Commander in Vietnam is Vietnamese American
When the USS Lassen made its official port call to Da Nang, Vietnam last week, it marked the first time a Vietnamese-American U.S. warship commander had returned to the Vietnamese shore.
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SK Energy finds oil deposit in Vietnam
SK Energy Co., Korea s leading refiner, has discovered an oil deposit at a jointly owned offshore field in Vietnam, the Seoul government said yesterday.
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Meet Vietnam 1: Apocalypse Then
Hundreds of mostly elderly Vietnamese people surrounded San Francisco's City Hall on Sunday and Monday.
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Vietnam, Finland target US$1 billion in two-way trade
Vietnam and Finland have agreed to step up cooperation in trade and investment to increase bilateral trade turnover to US$1 billion within the next few years.
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Indonesia pledges safe, humane treatment of Vietnamese fishermen
Nine fishermen returned home safely to the central province of Quang Ngai in July after their vessel was sunk by a foreign ship Indonesian authorities will ensure the safe repatriation and humane treatment of Vietnamese fishermen found in Indonesian waters, Ambassador Pitono Purnomo told Thanh Nien Weekly.
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Vietnam braces itself as storm nears
By Tran van Minh Vietnam evacuated coastal areas Monday as tropical storm Mirinae approached after battering the Philippines, where it left 20 people dead.
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Key ports to unlock Vietnam's potential,
Construction of the second of three deep-sea ports planned for Vietnam has just begun on the central coast, a year after ground was broken for the first in the south.
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US gives boost to Pacific free-trade ambitions
The United States said on Saturday it would help transform an obscure trade pact that leaders say could become the nucleus for a massive trans-Pacific free-trade zone covering 2.6 billion people.
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Vietnam enjoys the rewards of peace
Tourists enjoy a sampan ride in the Mekong River Delta in Vietnam. Photograph by: John and Sandra Nowlan, Special to Canwest News Service Modern Vietnam has many attractions, but one event from its recent past still looms above all others: Don't mention the war.
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