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  • Research and Markets Vietnam Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020

    "Vietnam Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Infrastructure, Supply- demand and competitive landscape" report to their offering. Vietnam oil and gas storage industry research work from OGAnalysis is a compulsory report for all analysts involved in the oil storage sector. It provides all the key trends and analyzes the drivers and restraints of ...

  • Vietnamese woman Singaporean man jailed for sham marriage

    A Vietnamese woman and a Singaporean man have become the first couple to be prosecuted under a new law aimed at deterring marriages of ...

  • Video Watch Rare Vietnam War tapes unearthed

    Military families of the past used to rely on film to keep in touch with loved ones on the front line. Jim Axelrod reports on a man who found some rare footage from the Vietnam War, and wants to return those memories to more than 200 ...

  • Crane error blacks out one third of Vietnam

    HANOI (AFP) - Over a third of Vietnam as well as the capital of neighbouring Cambodia suffered a blackout this week after a crane operator knocked a tree onto a key power line, electricity officials said Thursday.Twenty-two of Vietnam's southern provinces -- out of a nationwide total of 63 -- lost power for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon including the southern commercial centre of Ho ...

  • Pan Pacific Petroleum preparing to drill in Vietnam

    Pan Pacific Petroleum is pleased to advise that the 'Ocean General' semi-submersible drilling rig is now on tow to Block 121 to drill the whale prospect as well Ca Voi-1X. The well is expected to spud during the first week of ...

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Affliction

Paul Schrader's "Affliction" is a powerful, bleak family drama about a son's tragic inability to not become his father. Set in the bitter cold of the wintry deer hunting season in Lawford, New Hampshire, "Affliction" is filled with harsh themes of generational violence, the male dominance over women, the businessman's dominance over the blue collar worker, alcoholism, and child abuse. As a w ... ...

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  • Crane disrupts Vietnam energy supply

    A mistake by a crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam and parts of neighbouring Cambodia, officials say. Vietnamese state electricity company EVN said in a statement that the blackout happened on Wednesday after the operator knocked a tree down. It fell onto the main north-south high voltage power transmission line. Electricity supplies in Ho Chi Minh City and ...

  • Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam

    HANOI, Vietnam -; One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power ...

  • Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

    In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ...

  • Decades later Vietnam vets to get their welcome home

    Allen County Councilman Kevin Howell announces plans to raise money for a Vietnam veterans parade. He is joined by, from left, Wayne Township Trustee Rick Stevenson and veterans Bennie Edwards and Jim ...

  • Vietnam index falls on regional declines banks lead losses

    HANOI, May 23 (Reuters) - Vietnam's benchmark stock index ended down 0.8 percent as foreign and domestic investors sold banking and property stocks after losses in overseas markers in Japan and China, traders said. Exchange-traded funds sold shares in the two sectors, including Hanoi-based Vietcombank, Vietnam's third-largest partly private bank, after Japan's market lost more than ...

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