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  • Miss Saigon returning to London stage in 2014

    LONDON -- "Miss Saigon," the musical that brought a real helicopter onto the West End stage, is descending on London again.Producer Cameron Mackintosh says a new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's musical will open at the Prince Edward Theatre in May, 25 years after the original production.A Vietnam War love story inspired by Giacomo Puccini's ...

  • Top Chinese legislator meets Vietnamese president

    Top Chinese legislator Zhang Dejiang met here Thursday afternoon with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.During the meeting, Zhang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), said the important consensus reached between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Sang has added fresh impetus to the long-term development of China-Vietnam relations.Xi and Sang held ...

  • Miss Saigon confirms West End return

    took over Les Misrables for its 25th anniversary , is a flexible version of the original capable of nationwide and international touring. It has previously played around the country for two years, debuting in 2004.Miss Saigon is set in the final days of the American occupation of the Asian city and charts the burgeoning romance of an American GI and a young Vietnamese ...

  • Vietnam ETF Future Dividend Potential

    Emerging markets dividends offer investors added compensation for the elevated risk and volatility that come with investing in the developing world. However, emerging markets dividends are a different beast than their developed world counterparts and the concept of developing world payouts is still relatively new. Frontier markets dividends are another ballgame, too, but these payouts can ...

  • China Vietnam should seek South China Sea solution Chinese President

    Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang wave during a welcoming ceremony in Beijing, capital of China, June 19, 2013. Photo: Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that China and Vietnam should push forward with seeking a political solution to the South China Sea issue.Xi and visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang held three-hour-long talks ...

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Obsessed

It seems like its been a while since somewhat has dipped into the Fatal Attraction well and delivered a thriller about a psychotic woman tearing apart the life of the man she will do anything to possess. In the years immediately following Adrian Lynes zeitgeist-puncturing domestic thril ... ...

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  • Rest of stranded tourists arrive home

    The tourists, who are all Vietnamese agents for the company Herbalife, were stuck in Thailand because of a dispute between a Vietnamese travel company and its Thai partner.--File ...

  • In Vietnam New Virus Isolated From Patients With Severe Brain Infections

    Researchers have identified a new virus in patients with severe brain infections in Vietnam. Further research is needed to determine whether the virus is responsible for the symptoms of disease. The virus was found in a total of 28 out of 644 patients with severe brain infections in the study, corresponding to around 4%, but not in any of the 122 patients with non-infectious brain disorders ...

  • Truck blaze closes Hai Van tunnel in 20 minutes

    A lorry carrying tractors burst into flames just 1.3km outside the Hai Van Tunnel at 6:50am in the central city this morning, closing the tunnel for 20 minutes.--VNS ...

  • Four Vietnamese salvage workers die on ship

    Thua Thien-Hue (Viet Nam News/ANN) - Four Vietnamese workers died while salvaging a Malaysian oil tanker wrecked off the coast of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Tuesday. The four victims, aged between 19 and 39 years old, died on the spot after reportedly breathing toxic gas in the hold of the vessel. Four other workers overcome in the same incident were saved by in-time application ...

  • China Vietnam Agree on Hotline to Resolve Maritime Disputes

    China and Vietnam have agreed to set up an emergency hotline to help quickly resolve territorial disputes that have occasionally strained relations between the two ...

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