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LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 8:05 am ET
We all know dogs like to smell just about everything, including other animals' poo. Now scientists have figured out how to put the canines' odd pastimes to work to help sniff out the dung of endangered rhinos in Vietnam.
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Nasdaq - Tue Nov 17, 9:47 pm ET
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Colgate-Palmolive (Vietnam) Ltd. has opened a $40 million toothbrush factory in southern Vietnam, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said Wednesday.
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Honolulu Advertiser - 2 hours 19 minutes ago
The Pacific Aviation Museum on Ford Island last week added four of the most famous fighter jets from the Korean and Vietnam wars to its aircraft collection.
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INO News - Fri Nov 20, 10:48 am ET
(AP:HANOI, Vietnam) Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
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Post-Tribune - Sun Nov 22, 5:11 am ET
GARY -- Saturday, Henry Hitchcock and a few friends gave a few dozen homeless veterans an early Thanksgiving dinner. Next month, he hopes to give them a place to live and a chance at a job, good health and peace of mind. Hitchcock, a Gary native and clinical psychologist, has worked with homeless veterans since not long after he returned from Vietnam, where he was shot once and "blown up" twice ...
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Englewood Herald - 29 minutes ago
The final chapter of a long story was written on Veterans Day when Air Force Capt. Melvin Ladewig was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Vietnam Service Medal more than 40 years after his death.
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WJXT Jacksonville - Fri Nov 20, 8:22 am ET
HANOI, Vietnam -- Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention. Yet even though cheap tools could prevent and cure both diseases, they kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each a year globally -- more than HIV and malaria combined.
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Farmington Press - 1 hour 27 minutes ago
Farmington V.F.W. Post 5896 recently unveiled a portrait of one of its past members, Paul Ketcherside, Jr., a decorated Vietnam Veteran who died 39 years ago. The portrait was presented to his sister Barbara Ketcherside , shown in center, by Mike White, President of Camp Hope, shown on right, and Tony Carroll, Post Commander, shown on left. The portrait was drawn and donated by world renowned ...
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Nasdaq - Thu Nov 19, 3:32 am ET
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Foreign investors were net buyers of VND49.5 billion ($2.8 million) of Vietnamese stocks out of a total VND3.28 trillion traded Thursday, the Hochiminh Stock Exchange said.
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The Morning Sun - 2 hours 35 minutes ago
When Dennis White got back from Vietnam, he looked to join the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Mt. Pleasant, but he wasn’t made to feel welcome.
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consortiumnews.com - Thu Nov 19, 3:24 pm ET
Evan Thomas and John Barry begin their Newsweek article, “ The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam ,” in a promising way, recounting a recent anecdote in which Afghan War commander Stanley McChrystal gets on the phone with author Stanley Karnow, whose book Vietnam is described as “the standard popular account of the Vietnam War.”
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Nov 18, 1:28 am ET
Hanoi - Four men were killed in the province of Tay Ninh while trying to remove the explosives from a Vietnam War-era bomb for use in fishing, a local policeman said Wednesday. The men, two pairs of brothers in their mid-20s, were attempting to cut o...
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Park Hills Daily Journal - Sun Nov 22, 5:32 am ET
Mike White, president of Camp Hope (right) and Tony Carroll, commander of VFW Post 5896, (left) present a portrait of past member Paul Ketcherside Jr. to his sister Barbara Ketcherside. Paul Ketcherside, a decorated Vietnam Veteran, died 39 years ago. The portrait was drawn and donated by world renowned artist Michael G. Reagan. A portrait artist for more than 30 years, Reagan has drawn ...
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The Florida Times-Union - Sun Nov 22, 12:37 am ET
The idea for the Welcome Home Barbecue organized by the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 38 was simple. "We know how Vietnam veterans were treated," said Bob Hull, a Vietnam veteran who is commander of the 1,028-member Chapter 38. "They didn't welcome us." So members of Chapter 38, along with family, friends and volunteers, gathered in the parking lot behind the chapter's Orange Park clubhouse ...
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 19, 1:11 am ET
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Vietnam plans to fund energy projects with a $1 billion bond, its first since an inaugural sale in 2005, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung said.