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  • 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 ...

  • Serco under pressure over Qld escapees

    Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has slammed the security firm managing a remote far north Queensland detention centre after six Vietnamese men faced court charged with escaping. Seven men climbed over a fence on Thursday at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre, about 30km east of the Cape York township of Weipa. Mr O'Connor announced on Friday that his department would ...

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The Master [Blu-Ray]

The Master [Blu-Ray]

There is no questionnone at all, in my mind at leastthat Paul Thomas Andersons The Master is a magnificently ambitious film. The first feature production to be shot in 65mm since Kenneth Branaghs Hamlet in 1996, it mixes exquisite period recreation of the post-World War II Eisenh ... ...

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  • Three face charges over blackout

    BINH DUONG - Three men who caused a massive blackout in 22 southern provinces and cities on Wednesday are expected to be prosecuted, according to southern Binh Duong Province's ...

  • Vietnam Memorial Wall project fundraiser slated this weekend

    Dan Ornesorge surveys the construction of the Vietnam Memorial Wall at Enid Woodring Regional Airport Thursday, May 23, 2013. Funding for the memorial is still needed and committee members will be at Jumbo Foods accepting donations Saturday. (Staff Photo by BONNIE ...

  • Decorated Vietnam pilot to visit HAMM

    Vietnam War veteran Bob Pardo, known for the ';Pardo’s Push'; heroic aerial maneuver, will be the guest speaker at the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum general meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday. The meeting will be next door to the museum at Jet Center of Tyler in Hangar 1, and the public is invited. There is no charge for the meeting.According to information from the museum, on March ...

  • Swimming lessons protect children

    Swimming lessons protect children HA NOI (VNS)-- The Ministry of Education and Training has asked schools to introduce swimming lessons to prevent students from drowning. The ministry said swimming lessons should be included in the school curriculum and extracurricular swimming training should be provided. The ministry called for outside organisations to join the campaign. Around 40 ...

  • Vietnamese inflation lowest in eight months

    Vietnamese inflation slowed to its weakest pace in eight months in May, official data showed Friday, in the latest sign that the communist-run economy is cooling. Consumer prices rose 6.36 percent year-on-year in May, the Government Statistics Office said, slightly down from a 6.61 percent increase reported in April. Economists attribute the slowdown in inflation to past monetary policy ...

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