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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.
HAMILTON, NORWAY--(Marketwire - December 9, 2009) - Seadrill has agreed a 12 months contract extension with Vietsopetro for the jack-up rig West Larissa for continued work in Vietnam. The extension secures employment for the jack-up throughout 2010 and has an estimated value of approximately US$41 million. Analyst contact Jim Daatland VP Investor Relations Seadrill Management AS +47 51 30 99 19 ...
STAUNTON — Decades ago, Richard LaFon of Mount Sidney fought in the Vietnam War with the U.S. Army.
MILAN -(Dow Jones)- Oil services company Saipem SpA (SPM.MI) said Wednesday it had received two offshore contracts in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam for a combined total of about $450 million.
A Vietnam War veteran in Utah says he got his Purple Heart 42 years after being wounded, thanks to his son's efforts in pursuing the award. Allen Malo of Farmington was wounded when his fuel truck struck a land mine, Salt Lake City's Desert News reported Tuesday.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Saipem SpA said in a statement today that it won two orders in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam for a total of approximately $450 million.
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Foreign investors were net buyers of VND4.4 billion ($230, 000) of Vietnamese stocks out of a total VND1.8 trillion traded Wednesday, the Hochiminh Stock Exchange said.
July 8, 1946 - Nov. 15, 2009 No descr Arturo Altamira Aguilar of Chandler passed away on Nov. 15, 2009, in Chandler, Ariz. He was 63 yrs old. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, on July 8, 1946, to Policarpio and Lola (Dolores) Aguilar. He joined the U.S. Army at the age of 18. He served in Vietnam in the First Platoon A Company 3/503rd Infantry 173rd Airborne Bridage ( SEP ). He was employed ...
Hanoi - Vietnam has won a contract to export 400,000 tons of rice to the Philippines, authorities said Wednesday. Officials at the Vietnam Food Association confirmed Vietnam had won four out of six 100,000-ton lots to export to the Philippines at an ...
Stephen P. Harbeck knows what it feels like to be under attack — in 1970, he served in Vietnam as a sniper with the fabled Seventh Cavalry, once led by Custer.
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Thailand did it, Philippines did it. So did Vietnam and Malaysia before them.
Fourth in a series: Former U.S. air bases in Vietnam remain highly polluted by defoliants, but the U.S. has done little to clean up the sites it contaminated during the war. Complete coverage
58,195 names are etched into the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Memorial sits in the National Mall along Constitution Avenue. The Three Soldiers statue sits overlooking the scene between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Sometimes the measure of a man comes from the stories people tell about him.
SAYREVILLE — A local Vietnam veteran looking for a way to express himself and share his experiences found his outlet just a few years ago: poetry. Raymond Reininger, a borough resident, now shares his work every Thursday night at Lucky's Café American in Milltown as part of the Poets and Angels Poetry and Music Series.
Bagel king Noah Alper serves memories and advice in a new book. by Anneli Rufus Two decades before he founded the bagel company that he would eventually sell for $100 million, Noah Alper was locked up in a mental hospital. Shocked to find their University of Wisconsin-student son in a mania exacerbated by drugs, lack of sleep, and the chaos of the Vietnam years, his parents had committed him ...
