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  • VNA continues to help AO victims

    VNA continues to help AO victims HA NOI (VNS)-- Vietnam News Agency and the Viet Nam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) yesterday signed an agreement of information co-operation for the next three years. Nguyen Thi Binh, former Vice President of Viet Nam and honorary president of VAVA, said co-operation would help make positive impacts on the community and help people ...

  • Religious freedom in Viet Nam guaranteed

    Religious freedom in Viet Nam guaranteed HCM CITY (VNS)-- The Ordinance on Religion and Belief has created a legal corridor to ensure people's right to religious freedom. Pham Dung, head of the Government's Committee for Religious Affairs, said this at a conference in HCM City yesterday to review the implementation of the ordinance over the past eight years. The Ordinance on ...

  • Vietnam vet gets heros homecoming

    FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A Vietnam veteran finally got the homecoming he never had when he arrived at the Fort Wayne International Airport Monday night. Hundreds of people were waiting for Tim Davis to thank him for her service and welcome him home. Davis served in the Marines in the Vietnam War and lost his legs during his deployment. But, when he returned home in 1968, he wasn't greeted ...

  • Amber Alert for 2 children abducted

    , who allegedly kidnapped two Vietnamese children from Braintree, Mass. According to Massachusetts State Police, at approximately 4:30p.m., the Braintree Police responded to a report of a parental kidnapping ...

  • Dead pig transport a concern in south

    Dead pig transport a concern in south HCM CITY (VNS)-- The city has confiscated tonnes of dead pigs that have been transported with no quarantine certificates, HCM City veterinary officials have said. On May 9, the Thu Duc Animal Quarantine Station in HCM City, in cooperation with traffic police, seized more than one tonne of dead pigs being transported from Dong Nai Province to the city. ...

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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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  • Mekong Delta to build more kindies

    Mekong Delta to build more kindies HCM CITY (VNS)-- Cities and provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have mobilised funds to build more kindergartens as they strive to eliminate old, dilapidated classrooms. More than 4,000 kindergarten classes are in borrowed space in primary schools or basic structures built on local people's land, according to statistics released by education ...

  • Heat forecast to subside in north

    Heat forecast to subside in north HA NOI (VNS)-- Hot weather will ease in northern provinces from today, according to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre. The temperature will range from 24-34 degrees Celsius during the day. However, the mild weather would last for just one to two days before the temperature increases again, said centre deputy director Le Thanh Hai. -- ...

  • Four crewmen rescued over the weekend

    Four crewmen rescued over the weekend HA NOI (VNS)-- Three crewmen from a sand-carrying vessel sunk by huge waves off the coast of Hai Phong City's Cat Ba District on Sunday have been rescued, according to the National Search and Rescue Committee. Six local border guards were dispatched to take the victims to the shore. In another incident, four fishermen were left adrift when their ...

  • Trafficked victims get new lease on life

    Blue Dragon Foundation's founder Michael Brosowski speaks to kids at a football match. Since 2006, the foundation has rescued 278 trafficked children. -- Photo coutersy of Blue Dragon ...

  • 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 ...

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