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  • In Vietnam New Virus Isolated From Patients With Severe Brain Infections

    Researchers have identified a new virus in patients with severe brain infections in Vietnam. Further research is needed to determine whether the virus is responsible for the symptoms of disease. The virus was found in a total of 28 out of 644 patients with severe brain infections in the study, corresponding to around 4%, but not in any of the 122 patients with non-infectious brain disorders ...

  • China Vietnam talk amid South China Sea tensions

    BEIJING - Vietnam's president is being feted by China's leaders on a visit through Friday as Beijing continues to shun another rival for South China Sea territory that has challenged its claims on legal grounds, the Philippines.President Truong Tan Sang is on the three-day visit to boost economic ties with China, Vietnam's communist ally and biggest trading partner. How to manage ...

  • Truck blaze closes Hai Van tunnel in 20 minutes

    A lorry carrying tractors burst into flames just 1.3km outside the Hai Van Tunnel at 6:50am in the central city this morning, closing the tunnel for 20 minutes.--VNS ...

  • Four Vietnamese salvage workers die on ship

    Thua Thien-Hue (Viet Nam News/ANN) - Four Vietnamese workers died while salvaging a Malaysian oil tanker wrecked off the coast of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Tuesday. The four victims, aged between 19 and 39 years old, died on the spot after reportedly breathing toxic gas in the hold of the vessel. Four other workers overcome in the same incident were saved by in-time application ...

  • China Vietnam Agree on Hotline to Resolve Maritime Disputes

    China and Vietnam have agreed to set up an emergency hotline to help quickly resolve territorial disputes that have occasionally strained relations between the two ...

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Freaks

Fascinating, repulsive, and oddly touching, Todd Browning's "Freaks" is a constant contradiction of a movie. It is populated with real-life human oddities, including a man with no arms and no legs, another man who walks on his hands because he has no body from the mid-torso down, a human skeleton, a bearded woman, and Siamese twins. Browning, who had firsthand experience with such people having w ... ...

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  • China Vietnam set up dispute hotline - report

    TO VIETNAM-CHINA TIES. Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) toast to each other after attending a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 19 June 2013. Photo by Mark Ralston/Pool/EPA BEIJING, China - China and Vietnam have agreed to set up a hotline to resolve disputes in the South China Sea, where clashes between fishermen ...

  • Vietnamese tourists in Thailand abandoned

    The vietnamese visitors of Travel Life were abandoned at the conference center after two days because the Thai partner - Thai 2020 Company - refused to continue serving them. According to the representative office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand in Ho Chi Minh City, from July 12 to 18, Herbalife Vietnam organized a seminar tour in Thailand for 3,000 Vietnamese. As the number of visitors ...

  • Vietnam China Expand Joint Exploration in Gulf of Tonkin

    HANOI - Vietnam and China have extended an agreement to jointly explore for oil and gas in the Gulf of Tonkin until 2016, while significantly expanding the area involved. The two sides started joint explorations in the gulf - led by state-owned Vietnam Oil & Gas Group, or PetroVietnam, and China National Offshore Oil Corp., or Cnooc - in November 2006. However, no reserves of commercial ...

  • Vietnam ships nearly 3 mln tons of rice in H1

    As of June 13 this year, Vietnam shipped nearly 3 million tons of rice abroad, earning over $1.3 billion, according to the Vietnam Food Association on Thursday.Specifically, in the first five months, 2.86 million tons of rice worth over $1.26 billion was sold abroad, a year-on-year increase of about 10 percent.Major import markets of Vietnamese rice included China ( accounting for 38.7 percent ...

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