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  • Restaurant review John Gilchrist tries Balo

    Calgary has no shortage of options for Vietnamese cuisine. In every quadrant of the city, you can find a variety of options for pho, vermicelli, spring rolls and more. Click "Listen" to hear John Gilchrist's review of Balo John GIlchrist visited Balo in the city's southwest recently. It's located at 1238 Eighth Street S.W. in the Beltline and seats about 80 diners in ...

  • Unclaimed Vietnam veterans laid to rest with honors

    Three Vietnam-era veterans were laid to rest Friday with full military honors, years after their deaths. Sergeant Roger Thompson and Private First Class Fred Hall died in January 2010. Private Gary Sharp died in April 2011, but their cremated remains went unclaimed at the East Tennessee Regional Forensic Center. The Missing in America project contacted the medical examiner's office ...

  • Vietnam will allow the purchase of quiet fireworks

    Firecrackers that produce noise but don't explode may be permitted for the 2014 Lunar New Year in Vietnam, a nation that has outlawed their ...

  • Nick Vujicic Talking About God at Stadium in Vietnam Considered Miracle Says Organizer

    Inspirational speaker Nick Vujicic, who was born without arms or legs, speaks at the National Religious Broadcasters convention on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, in Nashville, ...

  • Limbless Aussie preaches in Vietnam

    THE 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to ...

Movie Review

The Order

The Order

The Order reunites the major players who two years ago brought us the giddy-goofy medieval action flick A Knights Taleincluding writer/director Brian Helgeland and stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, and Mark Addybut the two movies couldnt be any different. While A Knights Tale was a fun, thoroughly calculated crowd pleaser with a silly postmodern spin (using 70s rock tunes ... ...

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  • Vietnam - Injustice reigns as eight pro-democracy activists lose appeal in Vietnam

    Eight have lost an appeal against their conviction; in this photo, defendants appear in court in January 2013 when the sentences were originally handed ...

  • With fleeting reference to God Australian evangelical draws big audience in Communist Vietnam

    In this Thursday, May 23, 2013 photo, a Vietnamese girl sells headbands printed the name of Nick Vujicic, a Serbian Australian evangelist outside My Dinh national stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam. Vujicic was born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs. Amid childhood bullying, he once tried to drown himself. (AP Photo/Na Son ...

  • Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage

    The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to ...

  • Australian preacher takes on Vietnam

    THE 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver. "Do you know why I love God?" Nick Vujicic asked a young girl on stage who, like him, was born without arms and legs. "Because heaven is real. And one day when we get to ...

  • Vietnams CPI deflates again in May

    Vietnam's consumer price index (CPI), a calculator for the inflation growth, deflated again in May, down by 0.06 percent against the previous month, reported the Vietnam General Statistics Office on Friday.The figure posted an increase of 2.35 percent compared to last December and 6.36 percent to last May, pushing the first 5-month index this year to rise by 6.74 percent over the same ...

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