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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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The Core

The Core

The Core is a delicious, absurdly retro sci-fi action yarn about a motley group of scientists and NASA pilots whose mission is to go the Earths core, set off a couple of nuclear bombs, and get it spinning again. The whole movie is based on a premise so outlandish that actress Hilary Swank could barely keep a straight face while trying to explain it to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Ministry to get tougher on immunisation malpractice

    A child in southern Binh Duong Province is vaccinated. Health departments in localities have been asked to tighten immunisation services management after several violations were discovered. -- VNA/VNS Photo Duong ...

  • Appeal trial held for eight defendants

    Appeal trial held for eight defendants NGHE AN (VNS)-- The Supreme People's Court's Court of Appeal yesterday heard the cases of eight people previously convicted of "carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people's Government" pursuant to Clauses 1 and 2, Article 79 of the Penal Code. The trial, in the central province of Nghe An, was opened as the accused ...

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