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  • Tourism police to protect foreigners

    A street vendor tries to force a foreign tourist to buy sourvenir in Ha Noi. The city authorities are considering setting up a tourism police force to protect tourists from being overcharged and harrashed by street vendors. -- VNS Photo Doan ...

  • Vietnam rice stocks arrive in Cebu

    ABOUT 370,000 bags of imported Vietnam rice will be delivered to Cebu City’s port area for Central and Eastern Visayas, the regional National Food Authority (NFA) office said yesterday. The 370,000 bags of Vietnam rice were part of the 54,000 metric tons or roughly 1.8 million bags of rice bought by the national government for the two regions, regional NFA information officer Lucy Rosales ...

  • Gunman sought after man killed inside Vietnamese restaurant

    HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Authorities are searching for a killer responsible for a shockingly bold crime -- a murder in the middle of a restaurant. It happened Saturday inside a Vietnamese restaurant on Veterans Memorial ...

  • Duped Sold into Prostitution then Rescued A Vietnamese Girl and the Man Who Saved Her

    Reporter Phillip Martin has been investigating human trafficking in various parts of the world and in Vietnam he found a glimmer of hope, as a young woman who was kidnapped and sold to a brothel in China, returns to her ...

  • Starbucks Is Open for Business in Vietnam

    opened up shop in Ho Chi Minh in February, and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said that sales have exceeded expectations so far. Still, Vietnam may prove a challenge for the hegemonic coffee company because of the country's rich coffee culture that dates back at least a ...

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [DVD]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [DVD]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best of the Star Trek film series, a gloriously operatic revenge tale full of sound and fury, violence and vengeance, humor and empathy. It followed three years after Robert Wise's elegant, but somewhat tedious Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Wrath of Khan couldn't have been any different. Taut, tense, and deliciously ov ... ...

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  • Bad debts falling in Vietnams ailing banks govt says

    HANOI | Mon May 20, 2013 7:29am EDT HANOI May 20 (Reuters) - The ratio of non-performing loans held by Vietnam's troubled banks eased slightly in the first quarter as they have become better at controlling bad debt, though the overall level of NPLs remained high, the government said on Monday. Bad loans are a key factor stifling Vietnam's economic revival. The country's ...

  • Talisman Energy announces first oil from HSTHSD Development offshore Vietnam growth continues in core Asia-Pacific region

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  • Robusta Coffee Falls to 1-Week Low on Vietnam Sales Sugar Drops

    Indonesia , the third largest. Sugar also declined. Buyers of coffee from Vietnam are paying a lower premium as farmers boosted sales because of gains in futures prices, Volcafe, the coffee unit of trader ED&F Man Holdings Ltd., said in a report e-mailed on May 17. Weather may help dry beans in Indonesia, it said. Arabica coffee prices have dropped 5.2 percent this year while robusta ...

  • CORRECTED-BRIEF-Talisman Energy says gross production expected to reach 15000 bblsday from 2 Vietnam oil fields

    Mon May 20, 2013 5:23am EDT (Corrects headline to say gross production is expected to reach 15,000 bbls/day from 2 fields in Vietnam, not the whole company) May 20 (Reuters) - Talisman Energy Inc : * Announces first oil from hst/hsd development, offshore Vietnam growth continues in core Asia-pacific region * Says gross production is expected to reach 15,000 bbls/day once the facilities are ...

  • China to make joint effort with Vietnam to advance bilateral relations FM

    Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (2nd R) meets with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem (2nd L) in Bali, Indonesia, July 21, 2011. (Xinhua/Chen Duo)Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said in Bali Thursday that China hopes to make joint effort with Vietnam to advance the bilateral relations on the right track. China and Vietnam have established a ...

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