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  • 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 ...

  • Viet Nam to host German businesses

    Viet Nam to host German businesses HA NOI (VNS)-- The 14th Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business will be held in HCM City in November 2014, the German Industry and Commerce Viet Nam has announced. Viet Nam's position as one of Germany's most important partners in Southeast Asa has presented it with the chance to host the conference for the first time. At the meeting, German ...

  • Sai Gon Co.op opens supermarket

    Sai Gon Co.op opens supermarket HCM CITY (VNS)-- Sai Gon Co.op opened its 62nd supermarket in central Nha Trang City with investment capital of more than VND120 billion ($5.7 million). The store covers an area of more than 10,000sq.m and stocks more than 30,000 products including food, cosmetics, garments and household appliances and utensils. It is the second Co.op supermarket in central ...

  • Minh defeats Indian rival in Singapore Open

    Minh defeats Indian rival in Singapore Open HA NOI (VNS)--Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh defeated Indian Srikanth K in the first round of Singapore Open yesterday. Olympian Minh, world No 9, defeated his Indian rival, world No 44, 2-1 (19-21, 21-16, 21-12) in a mach lasting 55 minutes. Minh will meet Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk of Thailand who beat his teammate Suppanyu ...

Movie Review

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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  • French band to perform in world music concert

    French band to perform in world music concert Lo' Jo, a six-member group from France, will perform a blend of world music at a concert at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) on June 25. The group, founded in 1982 by singer and keyboardist Denis Pean and violinist Richard Bourreau, will play popular songs like Fragile, The Marseille in Creole and As Time Goes By. ...

  • Port project all at sea Vinalines to pull out

    Port project all at sea: Vinalines to pull out KHANH HOA (VNS)-- The unfinished Van Phong International Port has suffered a major blow after the Van Phong Economic Zone Management Board decided to block investment in the project from Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines). Within the next six to 12 months, Vinalines must end its involvement in the sluggish project, Hoang Dinh Phi, ...

  • Mobile phone exports to hit $20b

    Mobile phone exports to hit $20b HA NOI (VNS)-- The Ministry of Industry and Trade forecasts that the export of mobile phones and their spare parts may exceed US$20 billion this year, according to the Communist Party of Viet Nam online newspaper. In the first four months of this year, mobile phone exports reached $5.97 billion, a year-on-year rise of 97.26 per cent. This enabled telephone ...

  • Gang busted for making pen guns

    Gang busted for making pen guns HAI PHONG (VNS)- Police from northern Hai Phong City busted a ring involved in producing and trading fire-arms yesterday. The case was exposed when police searched a house in Le Chan District's Nghai Xa Ward on Tuesday. They arrested a husband and wife for illegally producing fire-arms in Le Chan. The police seized five pen guns, two self-made guns, one ...

  • Firms get right to defer tax payments

    Firms get right to defer tax payments HA NOI (VNS)-- Enterprises would be allowed to pay their tax debts by installments from the beginning of next month, under a new proviso intended to assist firms in weathering the economic storm. The concession is set to be added to the amended law of tax management, due to come into force on July 1. Under the caveat, deferred tax debts must be paid off ...

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