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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
The Asian Development Bank approved Friday a loan of US$45 million for a rural water supply and sanitation project that will benefit six central provinces in Vietnam.
Keywords: The AdbprojectbenefitHouseholdsNghe AnrehabilitateRural Water Supply
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
People caught smoking in public places will receive fines beginning in January, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has announced.
Keywords: FinesWorld Lung FoundationFramework ConventionTobacco ControladministerSmokersThe Who
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news
Vietnam has not yet seen any cases of goat flu, known as “Q-fever,” which recently struck the Netherlands, said a health official.
Keywords: resembleThe Preventive HealthDr Nguyen Huy NgaThe Netherlands
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
State-owned carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) said that despite adding 850 more flights between the country’s major cities from February 1-28, 2010, it failed to meet demand.
Keywords: The HcmcFlightsrouteDanangCarryingHcmc HanoiQuy Nhon
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Gold surged by VND200,000 a tael in Vietnam on December 19, following a slight recovery of prices on the international market.
Keywords: metalSaigon JewelryBoughtSpdr Gold Trustslight
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
FRANKFURT (AFP) – Global staff at Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, will share the burden of a 50 percent British tax on bonuses, chairman Josef Ackermann was quoted as saying in a press report Friday.
Keywords: taxDeutsche BankBankersThe Britishstaffbankburden
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
MOSCOW (AFP) – US and Russian officials have reached agreement on the broad principles of a new nuclear disarmament deal to replace the 1991 START accord, Interfax quoted a Russian source as saying Friday.
Keywords: Us President Barack ObamaInterfaxThe CopenhagenRussian President Dmitry MedvedevA Russiandealagree
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COPENHAGEN (AFP) – US President Barack Obama joined world leaders Friday in a final push for a climate pact but poor nations feared the agreement would fail to stave off the worst ravages of global warming.
Keywords: NationsTalksDiplomatsUs President Barack ObamaDisputesObamapush
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
People living with HIV and caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children will receive loans to start small businesses under a US government program launched December 17.
Keywords: PepfarBeneficiariesEmergency FundAids ReliefUs PresidentprogramUsaid
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
A sum of VND200 million (more than US$11,000) will be donated to a school for disabled children in Ho Chi Minh City via a charity program conducted by 16 hotels here.
Keywords: HotelsschoolprogramKim DoFirst HotelRenaissance RiversideFunding
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
Several members of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee warned against scrapping the central bank’s prime lending rate mechanism and not disclosing information about troubled banks that are placed under special supervision.
Keywords: primerateThe NaPhung Quoc HiencreditDisclosingThe State Bank
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
Access to information is good for Vietnam, its development and its people, said United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Country Director Setsuko Yamazaki at a round-table meeting on December 17 in Hanoi.
Keywords: accessPress DepartmentHoang Huu LuongThe LawThe State PresidentYamazakiSetsuko Yamazaki
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AFP) – Rescuers on Friday continued the search for dozens of people still missing after a freighter sank in stormy seas off the northern coast of Lebanon with more than 80 people on board.
Keywords: searchcrewrescuecaptainSurvivorsRescuersoff
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan has barred the defence minister from travelling abroad as the fallout Friday from a court ruling reviving graft cases against a raft of top politicians threatened the government's stability.
Keywords: graftRulingexitnameMinistersEverybodyDefence
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SaiGon GP English 44 month(s) ago
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COPENHAGEN (AFP) – A group of around 30 world leaders and senior diplomats resumed talks at the UN climate summit Friday on a draft pact to combat climate change, diplomatic sources said.
Keywords: ObamaTalksFrench President Nicolas SarkozyThe United StatesdealsummitThe President