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  • Crane error blacks out one third of Vietnam

    HANOI (AFP) - Over a third of Vietnam as well as the capital of neighbouring Cambodia suffered a blackout this week after a crane operator knocked a tree onto a key power line, electricity officials said Thursday.Twenty-two of Vietnam's southern provinces -- out of a nationwide total of 63 -- lost power for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon including the southern commercial centre of Ho ...

  • Pan Pacific Petroleum preparing to drill in Vietnam

    Pan Pacific Petroleum is pleased to advise that the 'Ocean General' semi-submersible drilling rig is now on tow to Block 121 to drill the whale prospect as well Ca Voi-1X. The well is expected to spud during the first week of ...

  • Crane disrupts Vietnam energy supply

    A mistake by a crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam and parts of neighbouring Cambodia, officials say. Vietnamese state electricity company EVN said in a statement that the blackout happened on Wednesday after the operator knocked a tree down. It fell onto the main north-south high voltage power transmission line. Electricity supplies in Ho Chi Minh City and ...

  • Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam

    HANOI, Vietnam -; One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power ...

  • Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

    In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ...

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Training Day

Training Day is one of those movies that starts off very well, gets increasingly better as it goes along, and then suddenly deflates as it shoots itself in the foot in the final stretch. An increasingly tense tale of police corruption compacted into a brutal 24-hour period, Training Day doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of eroded morals, yet it gives in to genre demands that ... ...

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  • Decades later Vietnam vets to get their welcome home

    Allen County Councilman Kevin Howell announces plans to raise money for a Vietnam veterans parade. He is joined by, from left, Wayne Township Trustee Rick Stevenson and veterans Bennie Edwards and Jim ...

  • Vietnam index falls on regional declines banks lead losses

    HANOI, May 23 (Reuters) - Vietnam's benchmark stock index ended down 0.8 percent as foreign and domestic investors sold banking and property stocks after losses in overseas markers in Japan and China, traders said. Exchange-traded funds sold shares in the two sectors, including Hanoi-based Vietcombank, Vietnam's third-largest partly private bank, after Japan's market lost more than ...

  • Device to stop taxi cheats

    This is the latest attempt by the Government to tackle rampant taxi scams at airports. Dodgy taxi drivers are reported to be ripping off tourists with impunity as soon as they arrive in Viet Nam, doing serious damage to the nation's ...

  • Vietnam-France relations edge closer

    Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday hailed Vietnam's valued relationship with France and declared that the two nations are making efforts to develop their ties to the strategic partnership level in 2013. The PM made the comments at a meeting with the former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who is on an official working visit to the country. Dung declared ...

  • Quang Binh fishermen free trapped whale

    Quang Binh fishermen free trapped whale QUANG BINH (VNS)-- Authorities and fishermen in central Quang Binh Province's Le Thuy District yesterday rescued a whale caught in a fishing net. The whale, which is 5m long and weighs one tonne, was discovered by two fishermen off the coast of Ngu Thuy Trung Commune. They brought it into the harbor and notified the local authorities later. The ...

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