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  • Rice Paper Scissors Vietnamese Food Pops Up on Divisadero

    The first thing you'll notice at Rice Paper Scissors at Mojo Bicycle Cafe is the parklet and the proliferation of red stools thereabouts. That might be the precursor to the most prescient observation you'll make during your visit - there are two vastly different experiences to be had here. When the weather is nice, the tables set on the wood planks protruding into busy Divisadero are ...

  • Vietnam Signals Rate Pause as Banking Revamp Approaches

    inflation to quicken toward the end of the year," Tien said in an interview in Hanoi yesterday. "A further rate cut by the central bank is difficult. There's a small chance." Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the formation of an asset management company to acquire non-performing loans from the nation's lenders, the central bank said yesterday. Officials ...

  • - IFEX General Meeting and Strategy Conference - Phnom Penh Cambodia 17 to 20 June 2013

    IFEX Strategy Conferences take place every two years and are the largest global gatherings of free expression advocates. Local stakeholders, donors and other special guests are invited to join IFEX members in a broad dialogue -- to network, exchange skills, forge new alliances and take part in a dynamic and experiential programme of structured sessions, small group work, and a marketplace of ...

  • Talisman Strikes Oil in Vietnam

    HST ) and Hai Su Den (:HSD) development, located offshore Vietnam. The HST and HSD development consists of two offshore oil fields within block 15-2/01, on the western edge of Vietnam's prolific Cuu Long basin. The operator of the said block is Thang Long Joint Operating Company (:TLJOC) in which Talisman holds a 60% working interest, with the remaining 40% being controlled by PetroVietnam ...

  • Michigan Traveling Vietnam Wall on display in Royal Oak through Thursday

    Oak Park veteran Clifford Tatum, who served two terms in Korea and two in Vietnam, looks over the names of Michigan resident that served and passed in Vietnam. (Daniel Mears / The Detroit ...

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Spaceballs [Blu-Ray]

Spaceballs [Blu-Ray]

For most of his career, actor/director Mel Brooks has focused on lampooning the most precious genres of the classical Hollywood era. No cow was too sacred to be spared the farcical humor of Brooks pen, whether it be the western in Blazing Saddles (1974), classical horror in Young ... ...

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  • RPT-Vietnam gives green light for bad debt bank

    Tue May 21, 2013 7:41am EDT (Repeats to more subscribers) * Asset firm aimed at boosting banks' lending * Experts say Vietnam's real NPL ratio far higher HANOI, May 21 (Reuters) - Vietnam's government approved on Tuesday the formation of an asset management firm to buy bad debt from its troubled banks, an official said, a move that could help stimulate an ailing economy growing at ...

  • Oil production starts offshore Vietnam

    Canadian company Talisman Energy said it expects to produce 15,000 barrels of oil per day from its newly launched development offshore Vietnam. Talisman said it started oil production at the offshore Hai Su Trang and Hai Su Den development ahead of schedule. Once the facilities are commissioned, the company expects gross production to reach 15,000 bpd. "We are delighted to have achieved ...

  • Vietnam Again Escapes Blacklisting As State Dep’t. Cites ‘Positive’ Moves on Religious Freedom

    Ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom Suzan Johnson Cook cited Vietnam as an example of a country where "positive developments" have taken place in the area of religoius freedom. (Image: State Department) (CNSNews.com) - At a time when Vietnam's communist authorities have introduced new regulations placing burdensome bureaucratic restrictions on religious ...

  • Vietnam Stocks Climb to 5-Week High on Signs Inflation Slowing

    Asia , with the benchmark index closing at the highest level in more than five weeks, after a drop in consumer prices in the two biggest cities signaled inflation may slow nationwide. ...

  • Airport customs officers seized over 5kg rhino horns

    HCM CITY (VNS)-- More than 5kg of rhino horns were seized by customs officers at Tan Son Nhat Airport yesterday while being smuggled into Viet ...

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