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Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Nippon Sharyo Ltd. rose in Tokyo trading after the Nikkei newspaper said Vietnam selected Japanese technology for a high- speed rail link between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Danish design company Threads has launched its first line of designer notebook bags, with designs focused on simplicity and a maintaining a positive economic impact. The bags are produced in small-scale factories located in South Korea, with hand-stitching completed in Vietnam. The new products include the Journalcase, Shouldercase, Grannybag and Natural....
Many food facilities flout FDA registration rules A study of a sample of US food facilities shows that many did not comply fully with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) registration rules designed to help trace contaminated foods, according to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG). The office examined registration compliance at a "purposive sample" of 130 ...
HANOI, Vietnam----Cavico Corp. , a leading infrastructure development company based in Vietnam, today announced that the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement, effective as of November 23, 2009, pursuant to which Cavico and its subsidiaries have agreed to purchase from Cavico Mining and Construction a total of 4,000,000 ordinary shares of Mining at 16,894 Vietnamese Dong per share ...
A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?
When the Natick High School Class of 1959 celebrated its 50th reunion, one graduate could not attend — he did not even make it to his 10th reunion. Allen Loane, a 1959 graduate, was killed in action in 1967 while serving as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps in Vietnam.
In 2009, Vietnam acheived bumper harvests of its two main export crops, rice and coffee. Vietnam's coffee crop is estimated to have grown 7.3% year-on-year (y-o-y) to 19.67mn 60kg bags. Rice output is expected to have been around the same level as in 2008, also a bumper year.
This year's Veterans Day was especially significant to Gila Valley resident Scott Allred as his two roommates from the Vietnam War paid him a visit.
J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot is in talks to acquire Colum McCann's National Book Award-winning novel LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, which is based around Philippe Petit's tightrope walk across the Twin Towers in NYC, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER . The story follows various characters, including an Irish monk who works with prostitutes, mourning mothers of Vietnam War soldiers killed in battle ...
The head of a Buddhist pagoda in Central Vietnam said Friday that followers of an influential French-based monk can no longer seek shelter with him following three days of mob pressure.
CORPUS CHRISTI —An Orange Grove man makes sure everywhere he goes that people remember local service members killed in Iraq or Afghanistan . “I can’t forget,” said Cliff Kesinger, a Vietnam War veteran. “I miss my son every day.”His only son, Army Spc. James C. Kesinger, a combat medic, was killed on his second tour in Iraq on Dec. 13, 2005 — four years ago Sunday. “Another medic was sick, and ...
Siow Yi Ting of Malaysia marked her birthday with a Southeast Asian Games record-setting performance in the 100 meters breaststroke Friday when a slew of competition records were also set in swimming, weightlifting and shooting. After the third day of the games, Vietnam unexpectedly topped the medals table with 14 golds, eight of which it won Friday in seven events, ranging from karate to cycling.
The Vatican called a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the president of Vietnam on Friday "a significant stage" in efforts for closer ties between the communist country and the Holy See.
A Virginia man sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import catfish from Vietnam for fraudulent sale to avoid paying federal import tariffs has been barred from importing articles of food or offering such articles for import into the United States for the next 20 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today.
This year in 1972, The Irish Parliament voted to crush the I.R.A., 155 passengers died in the crash of a Spanish jetliner in The Canary Islands, the Federal Trade Commis-sion charged Xerox with a monopoly on office copiers, the White House announced that bombing of North Vietnam would resume until an accord was reached, and a singer from Bossier City, La. had his 34th hit record.
For 16 days in November, East Berlin Smiles shut down so Dr. Lori Cockley could take the majority of her dental staff to Vietnam with Operation Smile.
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