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VOV News English 4 hour(s) ago

(VOV) - Agro-forestry and fishery exports fetched nearly US$2.2 billion in May, bringing their total five-month export earnings to US$10.7 billion, down 4.6% from a year ago.
Keywords: valuenutExportsEarningsdownConsumers
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Báo Thanh Niên English 4 day(s) ago
Ho Chi Minh City authorities plan to spend VND11 trillion (US$522.96 million) by 2020 on developing river tourism into one of its major attractions, a VnExpress report said Wednesday.
Keywords: planA VnexpresscenterspendFacebookwharfrenovate
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Báo Thanh Niên English 19 hour(s) ago
A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam said they are working with law enforcement partners to investigate a consulate officer who has allegedly received bribes from Vietnamese seeking visas.
Keywords: The U SApplicationsallegedlyPartnersinvestigateThanh Nien
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VietnamPlus English 4 hour(s) ago

Senior officials from Southeast Asian nations and their dialogue partners, including the US, Japan and China, discussed the causes of tensions and security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region in Brunei on May 24, according to Kyodo News.
Keywords: Southeast Asian NationsAsia Pacific RegionTensionsChallengespeacefullyjustifyKorean Peninsula
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Báo Thanh Niên English 21 hour(s) ago

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama (R) hold a joint news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, December 12, 2011.
Keywords: MalikiThe White HouseObamaBombingsMccainSunnisconflict
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Báo Thanh Niên English 13 hour(s) ago
U.S. drone strikes should be limited to targets that present a “real, immediate threat to us” and conducted by the military rather than the CIA, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
Keywords: droneThe CiaThe MilitaryObamabacklogconflictTalking
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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 8 hour(s) ago

The central city of Da Nang will host its first annual international marathon on September 1 under the organization of the US-based World Marathon Tours.
Keywords: ParticipantsenjoyraceInternational AssociationAthletics FederationsGala DinnerUnesco World Heritage Sites
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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 9 hour(s) ago
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Finland will grant an ODA worth US$12.5 million to Vietnam to help develop the country’s management information system for its forest sector.
Keywords: projectgrantVietnamese Deputy MinisterHa Cong TuanComponentstherebyminimize
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Hanoi Times English 10 hour(s) ago
The Hanoitimes - Japan currently has over 1,900 projects in Viet Nam with total investment capital of nearly US$32 billion, putting high pressure on the Southeast Asian country’s education system.
Keywords: japanThe Southeast AsianPuttingDeputy Pm NhanjustifyincorporateDelivering
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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 12 hour(s) ago

US Foreign Service officer Michael T. Sestak who once worked at the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City has been charged with receiving millions of dollars in bribes from Vietnamese residents seeking visas last year.
Keywords: The Consulate GeneralInvestigatorsApplicationsUs State DepartmentchargeReceivingMillions
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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 13 hour(s) ago

Many tourism cities around Vietnam have mulled, or are covering the whole areas with free WiFi access, under programs that cost millions of US dollars, but their effectiveness remains to be seen.
Keywords: accessOld QuarterThe VnptHa Long CityHoi Anenableset
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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 14 hour(s) ago
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Stockholm experienced a sixth straight night of riots early Saturday, with cars torched in several immigrant-dominated suburbs, as Britain and the United States warned against travelling to the hotspots.
Keywords: BritainThe SwedishFirefightersYouthsWarnings
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Báo Thanh Niên English 1 week(s) ago

An Agent Orange victim Nguyen Thi Thao, 16 years old, sits at the Friendship Village, a hospice for Agent Orange victims outside Hanoi. Agent Orange is a dioxin-laced defoliant sprayed by US troops in the Vietnam War to destroy crops and jungle cover shielding guerrillas. US dropped about 18 million gallons of the defoliant on southern Vietnam for most of the 1960s. PHOTO: REUTERS
Keywords: cornrightPuttingVictimsdestroySouthern VietnamReuters
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Báo Thanh Niên English 4 day(s) ago
Three projects financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) targeting small towns in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia will receive a US$2.5 million grant from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction to build new markets and provide loans to poor vendors, ADB said in a release Wednesday.
Keywords: VendorsGreater Mekong SubregionDong HaLoansSoutheast Asia Departmentadministeradd to
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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 day(s) ago
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Police in Hai Phong City have detained four Chinese nationals who counterfeited credit cards and used them to make bank transfers worth US$228,000 and withdrew $187,500 in cash within a 10 day period.
Keywords: creditstealtrackappropriateHong Bang DistrictHai Phong Cityhave