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  • Leading Vietnamese Bank Reaches New Clients with IBM Smarter Computing

    Saigon Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank , one of the leading commercial banks in Vietnam, has turned to IBM Systems and Software to streamline business processes across its IT infrastructure and enable broader client reach through new online and mobile banking services. ...

  • Vietnam War-era films unearthed man attempts to reunite families with their films

    (CBS News) Keeping in touch with loved ones fighting on the front lines has changed. These days, military families can use webcams or e-mail. In the past, they turned to home video, and before that, film. A man in Albuquerque, N.M., found some rare film footage from the Vietnam War era and now, he wants to return those memories to more than 200 families. In 1968, Sheri Maloy is one of the people ...

  • Vietnam - Coalition calls on Vietnamese government to end persecution of activists

    joined a coalition of organisations to pressure the Vietnamese government to end its persecution of the activists. The eight activists, along with six others, were charged under Article 79 of Vietnam's penal code for "carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people's ...

  • Clumsy crane operator sends tree crashing cutting power to one-third of Vietnam

    A clumsy crane operator triggered a 10-hour blackout across a third of Vietnam on Wednesday, exposing the fragility of the nation’s power grid. — JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty ...

  • Vietnam activist sentences reduced

    A Vietnamese court has reduced the prison sentences of four activists convicted in January of trying to overthrow the communist state. Eight out of 14 defendants convicted had appealed against their sentences, four of whom were successful on Thursday, their lawyer has said. Most of the jailed were Catholics, but they included bloggers and students. Scores of activists have been jailed since ...

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Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) [DVD]

Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) [DVD]

Roberto Rossellinis Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) is a fitting conclusion to his neorealist War Trilogy, which began with the gritty portrait of the Italian Resistance fighting Nazi occupation in Rome Open City (1945) and continued with an epic, fr ... ...

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  • The best books on Vietnam start your reading here | Pushpinder Khaneka

    Vietnam ) war by a North Vietnamese army veteran, although fiction, revealed truths to many people inside and outside Vietnam. The main protagonist, Kien - a thinly disguised portrait of the author - is a tortured soul whose sanity is threatened by his brutal experiences during the war.The story begins after the war, with Kien working in an army unit clearing battlefields of rotting corpses. The ...

  • 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 ...

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