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Tran The Dung, a correspondent for Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper, was assaulted January 6 while gathering information about smuggling in Lang Son Province in the northern mountains during the lunar year-end.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
Remittances by overseas Vietnamese for the home country totaled US$6.283 billion last year, a year on year drop of 12.8 percent, the State Bank of Vietnam said.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
Although businesses faced lots of difficulties derived from the global economic recession in 2009, the average monthly salary of labourers reached over 2.8 million VND (150 USD) per head in 2009, up 10 percent from the previous year.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
MANCHESTER, England, Jan 8 (AFP) - It was initially an idea to speed up passenger waiting times, but Manchester Airport now finds itself as the only one in Britain using body scanners, in the wake of the Detroit plane attack.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
HONG KONG, Jan 8, 2010 (AFP) - Hong Kong ports-to-retail conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa on Friday offered to take its loss-making telecoms subsidiary private in a deal valued at 545 million US dollars.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
WASHINGTON, Jan 9, 2010 (AFP) - US President Barack Obama promised Saturday that Americans will see the effects of health reform this year, saying Congress is "on the verge" of approving the overhaul the nation's health care system.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
LUANDA, Jan 9, 2010 (AFP) - Angola may have underestimated the threat posed by separatist guerrillas who staged a deadly gun attack on Togo's football team ahead of the African Nations Cup, a minister told AFP on Saturday.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
This photo taken in October 2009 shows a woman (lower L) walking among the Khay Min Ga temples at sunrise in Bagan. (AFP photo)
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
KABUL (AFP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new cabinet nominees were presented to parliament Saturday, in his second attempt to form a functioning government and end a drawn-out political crisis, television showed.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
LONDON (AFP) – Finance minister Alistair Darling warned on Saturday that Britain faces its toughest spending cuts in two decades if the ruling Labour party wins this year's general election.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves during his morning official meetings at the presidential offices in Tehran on January 7, 2010. (AFP photo)
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
Japan Airlines passenger planes are seen on the tarmac of Tokyo's Haneda airport (AFP photo)
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
A young boy takes advantage of another day of weathered-enforced school closure in Britain. (AFP photo)
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
In this artist's sketch, Nigerian bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (right) appears before Judge Bernard Friedman in Federal Courthouse in Detroit, Michigan (AFP)
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